Let’s all chill out…
…and dance. And it’s not even that cold in New England today, so let’s have a summer song:
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No one knows what really goes on in a marriage…
…writes
Continue reading →Come for the politics, stay for the dance
Yesterday commenter “davisbr” offered the following slogan for the blog, “Come for the politics, stay for the dance.” I love it—and not least because it can so easily be reversed, “come for the dance, stay for the politics.” Politics is … Continue reading →
This is so funny…
…it’s painful. It also happens to be a case of the Jon Stewart show making fun of a liberal: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
Continue reading →Solving a decades-long science fiction mystery via the blog
Isn’t the internet wonderful? Through this blog, I recently got the answer to a question that’s been tormenting me for close to fifty years. Well, maybe not tormenting exactly. But I’ve long been troubled by my inability to identify a … Continue reading →
Tears go by as time goes by
1965. It was a very good year. Let’s sit and watch “As Tears Go By” with Marianne Faithfull: A few more years (forty, to be exact) and a few more tears go by for Marianne. Had Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, … Continue reading →
Tempus fugit: when you’re a Jet you stay a Jet
Indulging in one of my favorite pastimes, surfing on YouTube, recently led me to a clip of a 2007 rehearsal of a new production of the musical “West Side Story.” The sequence begins with the cast of the 2007 revival, … Continue reading →
Singing a good song: from Empty Chairs to Killing to Grammys and back
Here’s the story of the life of a song that most of you know, or think you know: A minor fact: I met Lori Lieberman briefly around the time the song first became popular or even before that. She was … Continue reading →
Kindle bestsellers
[Hat tip: Althouse.] Here’s a list of the one hundred top Kindle books. Actually, you get two, two, two lists in one: the books for sale, and the books available for free. The Bible does well in both categories. And … Continue reading →
Christmas greetings!
Merry Christmas! For those of you who thought this post from yesterday too long to wade through, I thought I’d just put up a portion of the last video in that post here so you can enjoy it for Christmas. … Continue reading →
Hansel and Gretel: losing their religion
I love the opera “Hansel and Gretel,” by Engelbert Humperdinck (no, not that Humperdinck or this one; this one). His name may be a yuk, but the music he composed is among the masterpieces of opera, soaring and sonorous, tuneful … Continue reading →
Love found…
…and lost, and… A great story-song from the late Harry Chapin:
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