Wierd Al’s Great Legos Video

This video is brill – just brill. Enjoy it for the fun details and the astonishing animation. You’ll love. I say, Love! Takes a little while to download. Worth the wait.

A lyric, a tone, it made me weep

Perhaps I am punchy, a little, from a busy day of writing and editing and the ongoing situation with my brother-in-law and his illness. In fact, I am quite sure it is because I am thinking of him, and my sister and their children, that this Robert Louis Stevenson lyric, set to music by Vaughan [...]

Bryn and Meat Loaf? Hush your mouf!

Okay now, someone who wants to upset me has sent me this comparison of my Bryn, my lovely Bryn Terfel, with Meat Loaf. Yes…a guy who calls himself Meat. Loaf. Terfel: Dramatic roles in operas such as the Flying Dutchman have involved the imposing star wearing heavy prosthetic make-up and projecting his mighty trademark voice [...]

South Park – honest, brave, honorable

Thoughts on Part II are here I can’t believe I’m writing those words. In the beginning, I wouldn’t let my kids watch the show. Tonight’s episode was brilliant. And brave. Basically Matt Stone and Trey Parker took all of their creative capital and threw down a gauntlet: America, will you submit to Dhimmitude (beginning with [...]

A musical occasion of sin…UPDATED

While I would never claim to have the pristine mouth of an angel (I worked around stockbrokers too long for that…) I do not, no matter how provoked I might feel, take the Name of the Lord in vain – never. Buster will tell you this because one of the few times I ever reached [...]

AI: Elliott Yamin, Moody’s Mood for Love

I don’t often remember to turn the TV on for American Idol – I think Chris Daughtry is pretty exciting, and certainly charismatic, and I caught Elliot Yasmin (who looks a lot better with his hair growing out) doing “Teach Me Tonight” last week, and he was pretty dang impressive on so difficult a song. [...]

Bryn Terfel Celebrity Blogs

Given that Ace has managed to snag a few celebrity bloggers for his place, in the manner of Arianna – I reached out to one, too, and he has graciously accepted an invitation to opine here – I believe he is responding to this post: First of all, dear Anchoress – thank you for allowing [...]