Saturday, February 27, 2021

Fun and Games

I have a great weakness for games in which there is an answer to be guessed. If one could buy reruns of Jeopardy!, to give the first example that pops into my head, I fear I would binge-watch that like nobody's business. But this video has to be my favorite instance of That Sort of Thing that I have ever seen. It has, of course, the advantage of centering on a single topic (Linguistics) which I enjoy very much, but more than that, it's just good fun to watch somebody being very good at something--which the contestant here was certainly being, and in a very good-natured fashion. 
 
 

Monday, February 22, 2021

Monday, February 15, 2021

Lent-ish, Perhaps

[1979:XII] from Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997


Monday, February 8, 2021

Enough Is As Good As a Feast

The last lines seem to apply as well to the composing or performing of music as they do to art.

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Feastday


Prayer of Simeon (link to mp3 at the Metropolitan Cantor Institute)