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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Larry Havers, and other Memorial Day thoughts
An annual reposting of some things pertaining to Memorial Day. First, a remembrance of a soldier I never knew. Fifteen years ago I wrote the following on Memorial Day, and I wanted to revisit it. It’s about the Vietnam Veteran … Continue reading
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Bad Joke Friday
How about another Star Trek joke, with a different franchise altogether thrown in just for good measure?
Something for Thursday
Yup, the usual. Very busy at work and also very busy at home, what with editing books and other things! I finished manuscript markups on The Savior Worlds, but now I’m finishing up the manuscript markups on Deliverance, Eh? (not … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Film music today: a symphonic suite comprising the music of Joe Hisaishi, written for the great Hayao Miyazaki film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Hisaishi is one of my favorite composers, and this suite is representative of why.
Bad Joke Friday
I need to find more of these, because apparently more exist. If you’re not up on your Star Trek: The Next Generation lore, there was a two-part episode where Captain Picard was sent on a special mission and replaced by … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Friday Edition)
So yesterday I was asked (well, I was asked to do this before yesterday, but yesterday was the day) to work not at The Store but rather to fill in for a guy who was on vacation at another location … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
William Grant Still, who lived from 1895 to 1978, is one of the most prominent and important African-American composers. He was prolific, writing five symphonies and eight operas in addition to an impressive array of other works. His is an … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
So, time to get back to our on-again, off-again song challenge! If my reckoning is correct, we’re up to A Song I’d Sing With Someone In A Karaoke Duet. Well, I’m honestly not likely to ever sing karaoke in any … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I know I’ve featured this work before, but it’s so good that it bears returning once in a while. Ottorino Resphigi was an Italian composer most active in the early 20th century, but he wasn’t much of a modernist: he … Continue reading
For National Poetry Month, a poem.
From An Anthology of World Poetry, edited by Mark Van Doren, a French ballad. No poet is named. “The Bridge of Death” “The dance is on the Bridge of Death And who will dance with me?” “There’s never a … Continue reading