Category: navel gazing

A few months ago, Your Humble Blogger wrote the following: The essential dividing line in American culture at the moment is the answer to this question: do you believe that all those outside of your church tradition are damned? The…

Well, and nobody has asked Your Humble Blogger to join the latest book meme, but since I’ve been thinking about my answers, I’ll go ahead and blog ’em. By the way, I’ve never spent time running one of these memes…

Your Humble Blogger has, as usual, arrived late at the hoo-hah. I refer to the hoo-hah over Sesame Street’s emphasis on healthy eating, and in particular over Cookie Monster’s new song of moderation, “A Cookie is a Sometime Thing”. Stories…

More from the Reciter… Isaac Watts, O God, Our Help in Ages Past (the RPO, linked there, includes three extra verses) and When I Survey the Wondrous Cross: Yes, “Time like an ever-rolling stream” and “my richest gain I count…

Your Humble Blogger is sorry, and really was paying attention the first time, and it all seemed to make sense, but now I need the explanation again: Why does it help me, the consumer, to have all three colors of…

More from the Reciter. Remember, it works best if you follow the links, then record yourself reading the whole poem aloud, post the audio and link to it from the comments… John Dryden, Alexander’s Feast: There are a couple of…

Well, and here are the next few poems out of the reciter: Thomas Nashe, In Plague Time: This is, I think, still well-known, but if I read it in high school, I didn’t remember it. It’s essentially a list of…

Yes, Gentle Readers, it’s still National Poetry Month, and here are a few more from the Faber Popular Reciter: William Shakespeare (links are to the scene, you’ll have to find the text in question, if you’re playing the home version)…

OK, Gentle Readers, Your Humble Blogger is aware that y’all have been fretting for two days now, asking, “Now that the cruelest month has begun, when O when will Vardibidian devote some space in his Tohu Bohu to poetry?” Well,…

Your Humble Blogger is aware that making fun of headlines—particularly internet headlines—is the last refuge of the unimaginative, but I couldn’t help chortling at Pope Sought and Offered Forgiveness. Well, good luck finding him, whoever you are, but I suspect…