What We Need –David Budbill From While We’ve Still Got Feet The Emperor, his bullies and henchmen terrorize the world every day, which is why every day we need a little poem of kindness, a small song of peace a…
The Man They Called Joss!
Firefly filk by the Bedlam Bards Edited to add: That link is gone, but you can hear “The Ballad of Joss” at https://bedlambards.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-drift.
Happy Birthday!
38 years ago today, my incredible partner came into this world. I don’t know the name of the woman who bore him or the man who fathered him. To both of them, though, I give my thanks. Sam is one…
QOTD: Northrop Frye
Literature encourages tolerance – bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities. -Northrop Frye, writer (1912-1991)
Poetry: Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale –Ron Padgett From You Never Know The little elf is dressed in a floppy cap and he has a big rosy nose and flaring white eyebrows with short legs and a jaunty step, though sometimes he glides across…
Happy Birthday!
I hope it’s a lovely one, ariedana!
At the Ballet
True Love Totally worksafe. For most workplaces, I think.
For ShadowKatt
Time Travel Closer?
Realistic Time Machine? The laws of physics seem to allow time travel, but no one has had much hope of building an actual time machine because it would take such exotic conditions and materials. Now, physicist Amos Ori of the…
The Real Dance Photos, Plus One
Finally! We got the dance photos in the mail today. The DVD of the recital isn’t here yet. Pout.