My mom loved “Do not go gentle into that good night”, and I have thought about that poem quite a bit since she died. Last week I stood in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey and explained who Dylan Thomas was to my son. When Taylor Swift released ttpd a few days later, I heard the title track and almost couldn’t believe the serendipity.
Posts in the category “media”
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz
There’s an episode of Phineas and Ferb in which the evil plan of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is to use a small army of giant robotic penguins to freeze the city with their icy breath and then get the citizens hooked on his delicious hot cocoa.
The War Books
A paper I wrote for an English class at the University of Florida at some point in 1996
Bongo la, bongo cha cha cha
In which I explain the lengths to which I’ll go to preserve the integrity of my 30+ years of mp3 metadata
Once upon a midnight dreary
Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!
#FridayFive: A Better House
View the Friday Five from November 15th, 2024
Disney Music in the 1930s
An old college essay
A special kind of fall.
In which he finally reads The Catcher in the Rye