I … Love … This … Language !!!
YouTube – Mad About English! – Official Theatrical Trailer 2008: “”
(Via Language Log.)
Seattle Opera Blog with Perry Lorenzo
Lots of good stuff at the Seattle Opera blog showing various aspects of the production of Midsummer Night’s Dream that Staffan is in. There’s some video, some slide shows, and especially some enlightening commentary about other productions and how this one compares.
The show is through April 5 at the Meydenbauer Theatre in Bellevue.
Here’s a link from the past: a review of MIT Dramashop’s 1984 performance of The Long Voyage Home, in which I play a Soon-to-be Shanghaied Swedish sailor.
My Congregation, Prince of Peace Lutheran in Shoreline, voted today to become a Reconciling in Christ congregation. Yay us!
A good name for a blog, or a band?
For some reason, Aina decided that she liked the Kung Fu Lollipops. We are pretty sure that she means some lollipop variety, but we are pretty skeptical that she was set on Kung Fu — especially as we have no idea where she acquired that particular vocabulary item. In any case, a quick Google reveals this:
So there you go.
When one considers the brief given implicitly to most student writers, but NEVER examined, it goes something like this: You don’t know much about the recent history of Madagascar but your task is to write about it AS IF you do know something about it (you will get the vast bulk of your knowledge from sources, of course) and AT THE SAME TIME you should write as if you are not a person and must never use the first person. The brief is doubly incoherent at root. No wonder students hate writing essays…
Map Head has a great preview of a book by Keith Harrison: Echoes of “Godel Escher Bach” applied to the theory of teaching writing.
Because Daddy just can’t resist.
That’s Aina being very proud of herself for dressing up as a hula girl all by herself.
And this one is Aina on a walk through the forest.
What did Henrik Ibsen tell Edvard Munch about light bulbs and fishermen?
A Norwegian joke.
What do you call a guy who puts on bowling shoes to go jogging?
A running joke.
What do you call a guy who can’t admit he likes Gucci leather underwear?
An in-joke.
What do you call MSG in a London cooking class?
A tasteless joke.
Where was it in relation to a midnight dreary, once?
A-pun
Video for the day. Staffan loved it. I loved it.
Reggae for your sauna: http://www.congasemenne.com/ Surprisingly fun, and full of Upper Peninsula in-jokes, of which I understand very few.
