Sometimes you need to cheer yourself up with a little hoofin’ and laughing and ingenue romance. As I did the other day thanks to iPlayer. A Damsel in Distress was just what the day needed: Fred Astaire, George and Gracie in London where a most youthful Joan Fontaine has fallen for an American and of…
Tag: humour
Irreverent Tarot 11: Etteilla’s Creation
ETTEILLA & CREATION The Grand #Etteilla, featuring his thematic desire to encode the creation story into the opening sequence of cards — and why his Fool and Magician are in such unexpected locations. Also a bit about the astrological associations he gives the cards. If you’re unfamiliar with the first professional cartomancer from the 18th…
Play Reading: BELL
This special HVWG event will be a live, “radio play” style performance of two plays written by local playwrights. This live performance will not include any sets, costumes, or frills – just actors on stage, reading the parts, breathing life into our playwrights’ words. The first play, “Bell” is a short, humorous, single-scene play written…
Irreverent Tarot Ep 1
Because having eleventy million things to do is not much different than doing eleventy million and one, I decided to start a micro-podcast to share weird tarot things that have been obsessing me as I dive deeper into the history. The first one has to do with this nineteenth century deck — so-called Egyptian, as…
Is It Funny? Ep 4 on YT – Beyond the Fringe
Episode 4 is up! This one mostly covers Beyond the Fringe, especially the records. I don’t even mention getting my program signed by Jonathan Miller when he spoke at Skidmore! Original airdate Sep 2020. Now with added images but no Ken Burns effect because I am trying not to add to my workload (and yet…another…
Hate Valentines? Blame Chaucer!
Valentine romance is a scam — a medieval scam!
The Umpteenth Dog
The Umpteenth Dog I lost hope yesterday, briefly. I have been raging with an incandescent fire for some time now over [waves hands helplessly] all the things, but especially lately the dismantling of the federal government. For all its many [many many] faults, there are so many who depend on it, on the distribution of…
Dundee Radio Club 7-9 Feb 25
The broadcast begins at 2pm (UK) on Friday (7/2) and runs through to the afternoon of Sunday 9th. You can listen via the player that will go live on our website tomorrow ~ dundeeradio.club So pleased to be joining the gang at Dundee Radio Club. Check out all the various listening experiences that will be playing the…
Is It Funny? Ep 3 on YT – The Goons
This episode deals with the influence of the Goon Show, especially Spike Milligan.
Is it Funny? Ep 2 on YT
The second episode of my new podcast IS IT FUNNY?