Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Still here….

 I know, another stretch of radio silence. And it’s for the usual reasons! Busy at work, lots of writing tasks to complete, and last weekend and this coming weekend are long weekends for me, with lots of fun and exciting stuff, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments

Something for Thursday

“This is the weirdest three…combination of guys I’ve ever seen. One looks like a mechanic, the other one looks like he gets ALL the girls, and the other one looks like he’s book-smart. They just decided to get together, like, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments Off on Something for Thursday

Tone Poem Tuesday

 A native of Buffalo who later moved to San Francisco to pursue her music career, Pamela Z is a composer and performer who works extensively with electronic sounds, vocal sampling, and other sonic augmentations to create works with an intriguing … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments Off on Tone Poem Tuesday

In which a daily newspaper comic strip delivers the greatest single sentence in the history of the English language

 I thought I had blogged about the current incarnation of the venerable comic strip Nancy at some point, but apparently I haven’t! Or if I have, I can’t find the post in the archives. Anyway, today’s installment contains one sentence that … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments Off on In which a daily newspaper comic strip delivers the greatest single sentence in the history of the English language

Apropos

RICHARD: He’s here. He’ll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn’t going to see me beg. GEOFFREY: My you chivalric fool… as if the way one fell down mattered. RICHARD: When the fall is all there is, it matters. (From The … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Comments Off on Apropos

Something for Thursday (Diana Rigg edition)

 Actress Diana Rigg has died. She lived a long life (82 years) and did a lot of amazing work, but for me, she will always be Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, also known as Tracy…who would, very briefly, be Mrs. James … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Tone Poem Tuesday

 I haven’t posted any Beethoven in a while, which is strange since it’s supposed to be a focus, given that 2020 is Beethoven’s 250th birth year. But here’s an interesting tidbit: even though it’s Beethoven, we’re not completely taking a … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Something for Thursday (Wakanda Forever edition)

 It’s strange about comets. Except for a few notable exceptions, the vast majority of comets come quickly, brighten our sky, and then disappear forever (or for so long it’s functionally forever). For the brief time they are in the sky, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments Off on Something for Thursday (Wakanda Forever edition)

The Unsuspecting

 There was a game going around Twitter the other day in which you post a photo of yourself from January of this year, when you were blissfully unaware of the jaw-dropping frightfest of a shitshow that 2020 had in store … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 1 Comment

Tone Poem Tuesday

 Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1924, Julia Perry was a Black composer who studied widely, attending the Berkshire Music Centre and working with the great teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris and then relocating to Florence for further study before returning … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments