The quote in today's icon is found throughout A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. As the inventor of Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler, celebrated his birthday yesterday, I thought it appropriate ( Read more... )

Yesterday's talk of Chaucer's Aprille brought to mind two separate songs. The first was Simon and Garfunkel's April Come She Will, which is based on an old English nursery rhyme about the cuckoo. The rhyme goes:

April come she will,
May she will stay,
June she'll change her tune,
July she will fly,
August die she must.Paul Simon revised and ( Read more... )