Category Archives: Music

The Mall (an exercise in dactylic hexameter)

Posted on October 13, 2021 by Uncomely and Broken

To introduce my students to dactyls (-uu), I showed them a pair of famous examples in tetrameter: All the kings’ horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Picture yourself in a boat on a river withtangerine … Continue reading →

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Song to the Seals

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

Every so often you come across a charming thing quite unintentionally on the internet, and this morning’s entry for me is the great Irish tenor John McCormack singing “Song to the Seals” from 1935.     A sea maid sings … Continue reading →

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Oedipus at Colonus

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 30

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: Bacchae

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: LATN 403 Spr 20: Agricola chap. 24

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Myth Spr 20: House of Cadmus

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Private: Myth Spr 20: Theseus

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Uncomely and Broken

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Fake Jan!

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

You may not know this, but January 2nd is, to some online hipsters that I do not count myself among, sometimes called “Fake Jan” Day. Jan 2. Get it? The whole thing involves the Brady Bunch Variety Hour in some … Continue reading →

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Scorsese on Bowie as Pilate

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

Excerpt from interview with Martin Scorsese, from Dylan Jones, David Bowie: A Life I’m sitting in my director’s chair and there are some chairs behind me and suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn around and there I … Continue reading →

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