Melville Marathon

Read the enthralling account of The joey Zone’s participation in the marathon reading of Moby Dick last week (it’s slightly shorter than the novel šŸ˜‰ It is brought to you by the New England Anomaly, your home for weirdness.

The Old Man and the Seaport

The Moby Dick reading marathon ends at noon today, with a big birthday cake for Melville. The joey Zone is in the thick of it down on the decks of the Charles W. Morgan in Mystic Seaport. His chapter was read in the middle of the night, I think (but I could be mis-remembering). It’s…

How to get to Carnegie Hall

Yes, yes, you can practice, practice, practice — or you can just go see Flamenco Duo (pictured to the right in a photo by Heikki Jokiniemi). Flamenco Duo is Carlos Revollar and the lovely Ulla Suokko, a wonderful and multi-talented performer (and friend of the Wombats). As winners of the Artists International’s Special Presentation Award,…

Tangible Accomplishments

After I finished grading the medieval lit exams (exam grading goes soooo much faster than paper grading), I took some time to begin the Halloween cards. I’m taking a slightly different approach this year, and more work is involved, but I found the “assembly line” process kind of soothing (I guess that’s my heritage after…