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Ramblings about all sorts of stuff

Around Town

Apr 30, 2025 - Wanting to Slap a Fool - A Look at Two Werther's

Nov 8, 2024 - You Murdering Ministers - Orlando Shakes' Macbeth

Nov 1, 2024 - Fill the Chalice with the Choicest Wine - Opera Orlando's Macbeth

Oct 25, 2024 - Dancing Shoes with Nimble Souls - Orlando Ballet's Romeo and Juliet

Jun 7, 2024 - Completely Enveloped in an Atmosphere - Orlando Ballet's Casanova

​Apr 28, 2024 - Remorse and Bitter Tears - Opera Orlando's Lucia di Lammermoor

​Feb 4, 2024 - Painting Her Own Reality - Opera Orlando's Frida

​Nov 5, 2023 - Thoughts on Opera Orlando's Tosca

​Oct 31 2019 - Do You Hear the People Sing? (Les Miserables at the Dr. Phillips Center)

Jun 9, 2018 - Wolfy and the Klingons (Opera Orlando's Star Trek: Abduction)

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Music / Songwriting​ / Language

May 06, 2017 - "It's a Mandolin, Sir" (Mandolin Primer)

Nov 24, 2024 - Mangling the Kuleshov Effect - The Lyrics of "Better Now"

Mar 18, 2020 - Kilimanjaro is Taller than Olympus, David (Lyrics and Poetry)

Jul 7, 2018 - Assembling an Album in Geologic Time - Part 1

Jul 7, 2018 - Assembling an Album in Geologic Time - Part 2

Jul 08, 2017 - Beemo By the Numbers - Creating Setlists

May 17, 2017 - Dynamite and Toothbrushes - Thoughts on Songwriting

Apr 02, 2017 - Stolen Scraps of a Great Feast of Language (Lyrics I Like)

Feb 11, 2017 - Anatomy of a Song - Beemo's "Clay Pigeons"

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Books / Movies

Jan 24, 2025 - A Return to the Black Hills - The White Buffalo (novel)

Dec 21, 2024 - The Combination to the Gates of Hell - High Plains Drifter (1973)

Nov 16, 2024 - The Lark that Sings - Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Nov 15, 2024 - A Quiet Devastation - Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Oct 23. 2024 - If Looking Liking Move - Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Oct 08, 2024 - Macbeth in Japan - Kurosawa's Throne of Blood

Sept 23, 2024 - Enter Four Murderers - M4cbeth

Aug 08, 2024 - A Big Housecleaning - Yojimbo (1961) and A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Jul 21, 2024 - Wonder Woman: A Deep Dive into the Character and Her Comics

Jun 25, 2024 - No Muckle on the Spule-bane - The Bride of Lammermoor

Apr 30, 2024 - Impaled on a Sharpened Stake - The White Buffalo (1977)

Apr 01, 2024 - Into the Choppa - A Tour of the Predator Films

Mar 25, 2024 - A Dip into the "Language" of Comics

Feb 27, 2024 - Waiting for a Denouement - Anna Karenina

Jan 11, 2024 - William Wordsworth: Education of a Prophet (Flashback)

Jan 07, 2024 - Moby Dick - Pelagic Horror and Nihilism

Apr 15, 2024 - 2 Moby 2 Dick - Moby Dick (1956)

Apr 23, 2024 - Moby Dick 3: Tokyo Drift - The 2017 Graphic Novel

Dec 17, 2023 - A Year of Dracula, Part 1 - The Novel (+ Ballet)

Dec 23, 2023 - A Year of Dracula, Part 2 - The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Dec 29, 2023 - A Year of Dracula, Part 3 - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and Dracula (1931)

Nov 17, 2023 - R.F. Kuang, Criticism, and Metatext - Part 1  (Thoughts on Babel and Yellowface)

Nov 17, 2023 - R.F. Kuang, Criticism, and Metatext - Part 2  (Thoughts on Babel and Yellowface)

Dec 10, 2019 - Book Roundup 2019

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Random​

​Jan 01, 2021 - Giueseppi Verdi, Prospero Betani, and Pre-Internet Comments Sections 

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Lazarus Music Project

​Feb 04, 2022 - LMP - Dissection of an Ass Kicking

Nov 15, 2020 - LMP - The Fodor Quartet

​Nov 10, 2020 - Launching the Lazarus Music Project

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