For those of you who read and enjoyed last Saturday’s post on tap dancing, and especially the clips of the Nicholas Brothers, here are some additional nuggets of interest: (1) The brothers were the children of vaudevillians, and never had … Continue reading →
Let’s take our minds off politics for a while, shall we? Here’s a video of the fleet-footed, technically adept, incredibly klutzy and profoundly uninteresting (to me) Savion Glover, giant of tap dancing for the last couple of decades: And here … Continue reading →
Even the left appears to have fallen out of love with Obama, and wonders how and why it all went wrong. Read as Tom Junod tries to puzzle it out in Esquire: Though many Americans didn’t know very much about … Continue reading →
Busy day today! I’ve got a new piece up at RightNetwork, a little change of pace from the election. It’s about the TLC program “Sister Wives,” a reality show that features a Utah man and his four wives. To whet … Continue reading →
Sometimes I need a break from all this politics (like right now!), and one of the things I turn to is dance. Most often ballet. Specifically, certain dancers of my youth, who now, to my joy, are readily available for … Continue reading →
…is a report that Mad Men’s curvy star Christina Hendricks may be going on a diet. Several billion men the world over cry, “Say it isn’t so, Christina!” Oh, okay, here’s a photo, because that’s just how much I aim … Continue reading →
What does this video reveal? (1) O’Donnell annoys liberals no end, and has been doing so for quite some time. (2) She has a lot of experience being in the line of rhetorical fire. (3) She’s pretty charming, which doesn’t … Continue reading →
[Bumped up.] My new piece is up at RightNetwork. In it, I compare the leaders who emerged under two extreme survival situations in South America: the recent Chilean mine accident, and the Andes plane crash of 1972 that inspired the … Continue reading →
…, so why not I?” Joan Sutherland, Australian bel canto soprano, dead at 83. I’m neither an opera fan nor knowledgeable about the subject. But Sutherland was one of the first opera singers I ever saw or heard, back on … Continue reading →
…[drum roll please]: dancers and choreographers. At first this puzzled me. But then I realized that (duh!), although the photo is of ballet dancers, exotic/erotic dancers fall into this category, too. Which would explain a lot.
Continue reading →Joe Biden has asked the base to stop whining. You might as well ask the sun to stop shining. It’s not a great way to get them all voting, But let’s not indulge in premature gloating, Though right now I’d … Continue reading →
Last night was a rare “super harvest moon” (see also this), and I went outside to gaze at the lovely sight. And since I’m one of those people with a lot of poetry rattling around in my head, up popped … Continue reading →