More sheet music and lyrics up on the Folkish Songs for Worship page: 2 more verses to “Yonder Come Day,” and link to lyrics for the fantabulous “Swimming to the Other Side” plus music for two harmony parts.
Category Archives: Asides
Ice on Mars?
According to a press release from the University of Arizona team that’s heading up the Phoenix Mars mission, it looks like they’ve already found ice. Still waiting for further confirmation, though. Read more.
Kevin Kelly continues…
…the tradition of Whole Earth Review (remember that?), providing reviews at Cool Tools. Don’t know how I missed this before.
Fafblog interviews Hillary Clinton
The interview you’ve been waiting for.
(Thank Bog that Fafblog is back. I don’t think I’d survive this presidential election without them. It. Whatever.)
Boston book lovers, take note
MacIntyre and Moore Books has moved from their Davis Square location, to a new store near Porter Square. They’re in what used to be Unicorn Books, on Mass Ave heading towards Arlington, in the same block as the U.S. Post Office.
New music
I put some new folk music for liberal worship services here.
Race and writing
Scale model tentacles
Check out this Cthulhu diorama.
Wright & Douglass
Ari, over at the American history blog Edge of the American West, gives a nice historical perspective on the Jeremiah Wright / Barack Obama mess. Ari asserts that what Obama is really trying to do, by distancing himself from Wright, is to avoid being labeled a “neo-Douglassian” — good old Frederick Douglass from the 19th C. is apparently still too scary for much of white America. Read it here.