We need a new kind of hero today, one in keeping with the spirit of the times, a hero with today’s very best virtues. The greatest virtues. Heroic virtues like you’ve never […]
Starfish! Hero of the Realm!
Rocky Mountain Bog Monster’s traditional music roundup, part 2
In this installment, a traditional(?) Bedouin, Druze, and Aramean sampler And have I mentioned dance? When possible, I try to find videos that include dance because that adds even more to appreciate.
Rocky Mountain Bog Monster’s traditional music roundup
In this installment: traditional(?) Kurdish music The usual caveats apply. I’m no expert, so it’s possible I might occasionally pick something that’s actually not traditional. I wouldn’t know. I’m trusting in YouTube […]
World music roundup: traditional Assyrian
Or should I say “traditional” “Assyrian?” I don’t know. I didn’t bother with a clever playlist name for this set of videos. It’s just an identifying label to help me find it […]
Trees, and how to love them
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree. I have lately become taken with trees. This has been growing the past several years, as I have […]
Scrogues Converse: art, creativity and meaning
What is “meaning”? And do art and “creativity” necessarily have anything to do with each other? The S&R staff has a backstage email list and, as noted before, sometimes what goes on […]
A doll house
Childhood is a complex thing. Depictions and memories of childhood … even moreso. I’ve been working on this series for two or three weeks now. In doing so I’ve thought about the […]
#SharingSaturday #SharingForAFriend
See a friend creating or otherwise in need of a signal boost? Give it! I have a great idea. No, really. I know it’s me, but this is great. I don’t pat […]
How to knit a cell phone
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft stores…. There are no roses for us but the ones we make from Japanese paper made in China, by the way, that we buy in vast retail […]
N-bombs in American cultural treasures
Huck Finn and Harper Lee in the crosshairs Fox reports (yeah, yeah, I know): Minnesota school district removes To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn from required reading due to n-word. “It’s wrong. There […]
