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…
So, Your Humble Blogger had, you know, noticed the advertisement for the new Fox sitcom Stacked because of the enormous stacks of books, right? But I had thereafter dismissed it from mind. And I probably would not have thought of…
There isn’t any actual horseracing in Driving Force, but for those of you Dick Francis fans who miss that sort of thing, they did run the Grand National today. That’s a BBC link, bye-the-bye, and from there you can link…
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…
Somehow, Your Humble Blogger was unaware that Walter Mosley (of Easy Rawlins fame) wrote specfic. I had actually drifted over to that library shelf to somewhat reluctantly pick up a mystery (I only enjoyed one of the two of his…
Your Humble Blogger appears to be lame. Very lame. Well, there it is. Last week was parshah Vayikra (Exodus 9:1-11:47), which contains two odd stories, which we talked about in synagogue. The first and better-known is the story of Nahab…
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)…