How do I get to be Terpsichore?*

How much time did Fred and Ginger invest practicing together in order to perform like this? I don’t think I’ve ever heard how much rehearsal time they put in, but it had to be an awful lot, don’t you think? *Terpsichore was one of the nine Muses. She was the goddess of choral song and …

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Hypochondriac’s delight

That’s the Internet, baby. I have some kind of odd soreness on the right side of my sternum. Plug “sore sternum” into a search box and Presto! I have costochondritis! What’s that? It’s an inflammation of the junctions where the upper ribs join the cartilage that holds them to the breastbone (sternum). Costochondritis causes localized …

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What was that?

Okay, everybody’s already jumped on Jeb! for his oh-so-empathetic “stuff happens” response when asked about the campus shooting in Oregon. Everybody’s sort-of forgiven the Pope for meeting with that job-denying Kim Davis, since the circumstances were not what we thought; it wasn’t one-on-one and full of approbation for her “brave stand for religious liberty,” despite …

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