Well I just got the first trick or treater of the night. (Well technically my second but I’m not sure if the first one counts as the first one was my next door neighbor’s daughter and they were heading out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s Rhapsody we finish off Hugo Alfven‘s selection of Swedish Rhapsodies with his third, the Andante (Dalecarlian rhapsody) Op.47. I rather like this one the beginning has a nice slow almost subliminal quality that reminds me very much of Wagner‘s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is Alan Hovhaness‘ third Armenian Rhapsody, Fantastic Waltz, for two pianos
So I took my first crack at doing a guest comic. I haven’t done any for the same reason I try not to do fan art, because it distracts from all of the stuff you’re supposed to be doing with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well this was all a very interesting weekend. Much more interesting than I had expected. I had been invited to my friend and colleague, Mark Monlux‘s 50th birthday party. Unfortunately he lives in Tacoma and I am a bicyclist and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’d like to say that my Thanksgiving went quite well. This year I went with my usual fall back, Thanksgiving Potluck at University Friends Meeting. Even though I’ll generally volunteer to help with set up no matter what. It always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s Rhapsody, I would like to apologize in advance for this one but it definitely appealed to my sense of whimsey… and the perverse. I just discovered the William Shatner version of Bohemian Rhapsody and I had to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I finally got around to seeing Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph. I was expecting good things for the most part. While I may not have liked the works of Disney’s Digital Animation studio quite as much as I like the works[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I finally went to see Rise of the Guardians. It was one of the films I had been looking forward to this year. I liked the concept and I liked the William Joyce books they were based on, It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
