Category Archives: music+verse

Protestant music?

One of my correspondents made a joke that could be read as implying that J S Bach (1685–1750) was a Protestant. Which got me to wondering: who was the earliest Protestant composer whose name I’d know? Henry Purcell (1659–95) comes … Continue reading

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Buffy the School Counselor

I felt a bit silly for not recognizing Jonathan Woodward when he played the vampire in Buffy 7:7 “Conversations with Dead People”. He looked familiar but I thought it was only because he resembles young Bill Murray. Then in the … Continue reading

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filkosophy

“Nominalist Things” (The site to which Bruce cites is dead, so I’ve no idea whether this is the whole song or not.)

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what do you get when you cross a zebra?

Sir George Martin’s new coat of arms

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a kind of sprachbund

Wikipedia tells more than you might imagine asking about the heavy metal umlaut. (Cited by Desbladet in a comment on John Holbo‘s blog.)

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the world is a very big place

Michael Jennings watches the Eurovision song contest. I’ve seen this phenomenon at least once, circa 1977 (the winner was the French entry, about a child and a bird), but most Americans will go “huh?”; it may help to mention that … Continue reading

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a protest song

The ever-amazing Joshua Burton calls my attention to this song from someone I’d never heard of before.

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