FIBBING FRIDAY: BE GRATEFUL THAT IT DOESN’T LAST ALL YEAR! From PCGUY IV comes this charming list of medical terms. Who could resist this marvelous selection? sphincter, phalanges, rectum, varicose, aorta, vein, artery, alveolus, bacteria, virus Great selection! You left… Read More ›
Tom Lehrer
SHARE MY WORLD AS OCTOBER MOVES ALONG
Share Your World 10-5-2020 How can it be the tenth month of the year? What happened? Oh, right. Everything happened. This was the year that was in every sense of the world. Whatever became of “National Brotherhood Week?” It was a… Read More ›
CELEBRATING WW3 SINCE WE WON’T HAVE TIME LATER – Marilyn Armstrong
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK? LET’S START CELEBRATING WORLD WAR THREE TODAY SINCE WE WON ‘T HAVE TIME, LATER. Way back in the dark ages, the third week in February (an otherwise dreary and neglected month) was designated National… Read More ›
THE HUNTING SONG, TOM LEHRER – Marilyn Armstrong
The first time I heard this song, I must have been maybe nine or ten? The older brother of a friend of mine owned the record. He brought it over and played it for me. I loved it. I borrowed… Read More ›
TWO CAROLS FOR OUR HOLIDAYS – Marilyn Armstrong
As the weird, right-wing Christians endlessly complain about how they can’t say “Merry Christmas,” while the rest of us try to keep our heads low and avoid getting bombarded by Christmas? For us, there is Tom Lehrer and a few… Read More ›
PARODY TRA LA, DUM DE DUM DE DUM DUM … – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Parody What is nearly tragic is even though these were written more than 50 years ago, they are maybe even more relevant now. We don’t learn easily, do we? And who better than Tom Lehrer? And finally,… Read More ›
FIGHT FIERCELY HARVARD! – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Fierce FIGHT FIERCELY HARVARD! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! as sung by Professor Tom Lehrer
ELEMENTS IN TRACES – TOM LEHRER AT HAHVID – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP #35 – TRACE ELEMENTS No one said it better than Tom Lehrer and now, he’s going to sing it again. For me and you and all of us. Trace element. Elements. All the elements. In song. With a piano…. Read More ›
WE NEED NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK
CONVERSANT AGAIN – NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK AND CELEBRATING WORLD WAR THREE – IN ADVANCE (WE WON ‘T HAVE TIME, LATER) Way back in the dark ages, the third week in February (an otherwise dreary and neglected month) was designated National Brotherhood… Read More ›
BRING BACK NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK
Way back in the dark ages, the third week in February (an otherwise dreary and neglected month) was designated National Brotherhood Week. As designated special weeks go, it was never a big hit with the general public. In the 1980s, it disappeared completely…. Read More ›
TALLY HO! IT’S HUNTING SEASON AGAIN!
Photographs: Garry Armstrong I don’t hate hunting season because I cried when hunters killed Bambi’s mother. Though I did cry and I personally can’t shoot things even if I like the way they taste roasted with some rosemary and garlic…. Read More ›
WHAT’S NEXT? SING ALONG WITH TOM LEHRER
“What else could go wrong? How much worse could things get?” My husband and I have an agreement. We will never say those words. Not say them or even think them. Because no matter how bad things are, no matter how dark life looks,… Read More ›
SOME OF THE GOOD STUFF
Worldly Encounters What would I share with a casually met alien? The same stuff I’d share with anyone. Stuff that makes me smile, tap my toes, sing along. Life is complex and uncertain. Eat dessert first. These are favorites. Take them… Read More ›
BRING BACK NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK
Way back in the dark ages, the third week in February (an otherwise dreary and neglected month) was designated National Brotherhood Week. As designated special weeks go, it was never a big hit with the general public. In the 1980s, it disappeared completely…. Read More ›
CYNICAL ECCENTRICITY: THEY WILL THANK US SOMEDAY
DAILY PROMPT: QUIRK OF HABIT Cultivating Eccentricity by Alienorajt Cultivating an air (or even a full-blown hurricane) of eccentricity should be absolutely de rigueur, in my opinion – especially in those of us past the first flush of youth but still… Read More ›
Hey, God … How about a few answers?
Heresy … or is it blasphemy? I always get the two confused. Maybe this is both. Whatever it is, I really would like a few answers. I know I’m not a model human. Not in any sense of the term,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 