Knowing how way leads on to way…
I am ramblin round this morning.
Martha Wells has put another short story up for reading on her website. Reflections is a Giliead and Ilias story (set before The Wizard Hunters) and first appeared in Black Gate, issue #10.
I somehow missed the announcement that after 26 years Reading Rainbow is ending. I disagree so strongly with their reasoning. No amount of teaching how to read is going to help if a kid doesn’t want to read. Reading Rainbow excelled at getting kids to want to read. I watched it with my youngest brother and then again with the ‘Bit. There isn’t anything else like it on television and I will miss sharing it with Scooter.
Poets.org set me a list of the most popular poems to teach. I was happy to see two of my favorites, Dreams by Langston Hughes and The Road not Taken by Robert Frost on their list.
I recently discovered a livejournal version of my old blues blog. After reading some of the entries I vaguely remember I was going to use it as sort of a back up. It only runs a couple of months but it contains posts I lost when I moved my blog from Typepad over to WordPress so I am happy to get the chance to save those posts and stick them in the archives.
Well, Scooter is up so I need to call it a post and go.
- Kit
I have been trying to write the review for Blurred, by San Francisco singer/songwriter Alex Wise for a few months now but can’t seem to finish it. This is difficult for me to say but I get about halfway through the process and find myself so homesick I just can’t continue. The past few years have been full [...]
Now that Scooter is back sleeping nights I proclaim this ’dig myself out from under the mountain of un-reviewed music‘ week. Kicking off the week o’reviewing is Arc & Stones, the debut EP from Brooklyn band Arc & Stones. The guys are Dan Pellarin (vocals), Ben Cramer (guitar), Joe Doino (drums) and Eddy Bayes (bass). I had [...]
So, I was in the mood for some blues and whoosh – blues appeared. Other people get coupons, bills and news updates in the mail while I get blues music. Cool new blues music in the form of the debut release Telegraph Taboo from the Chicago-based band Nick and the Ovorols. This is not a pretty album. The vocals on a few tracks [...]