'Nother night, 'nother villain. This one's a vampire.

"Mercy Wheeler," words and tune by April Grant. Some of you know this one already. Please learn it and sing it wherever you wish.

Lyrics and notes from the Soundcloud post:

Now Mercy Wheeler’s in the grave; they buried her today ( Read more... )

So, I a song. Rachel Wall's Last Good-Night. I've been meaning to post this since I wrote it in October 2016; now is as good a time as any. The words are mine. The tune is my adaptation of "The Bold Solder" tune sung by Lena Bourne Fish in the Anne and Frank Warner Collection.

From my Soundcloud entry:

Rachel Wall was hanged at Boston, on October ( Read more... )

Here's a finished song from a few months ago, written on the heels of this post. (How the hell was that all the way back in July? Time has roared past me. Well, it's still important.) First sung in public in December 2016 ( Read more... )

This has been at the back of my mind for weeks, since reading a Tumblr post that discusses the idea that US Navy subs which never return are still on patrol, not lost at sea. The resulting comment thread seemed to want to be a song. To top it all off, it's a Christmas song! I'm two months too late for this to be seasonally appropriate, but what the ( Read more... )

In the department of Things That Are Outside My Field Of Experience, Yet Of Fascination To Me:

A medieval Torah scholar appears to make the argument that Rachel was killed by her son Benjamin, because he was a werewolf(I say "appears to make" because I can't tell which parts of this discussion are the words of Rabbeinu Ephraim ben Shimshon as ( Read more... )

I just called the Governor of Massachusetts in order to urge him to take a public stand against the threats of the oncoming administration and declare Massachusetts a state of refuge for Americans threatened with deportation or otherwise placed at the risk of their lives, safety, and human rights ( Read more... )

Well, I was looking up addresses for [part-time job], and in trying to confirm the address of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, I found ( Read more... )

I just watched Gangs of New York (2002). It frustrated me that in this otherwise excellent movie we only got a few glimpses of the most interesting-looking person--she looks like a nineteenth-century Lady Deathstrike cosplayer with her teeth filed to points. This is Hellcat Maggie (ably played by Cara Seymour), sole representative of a bunch of ( Read more... )

Most of the time I think the Toast is overrated. Every so often it hits me where I live.

Please go over there and read Mallory Ortberg's "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would In Fact Have Been Among The Witch-BurnersI feel a little bit less embarrassed ( Read more... )

I'm in SFO awaiting my flight out. Made it through security with only the loss of a jar of caramel. I really want to post something while in an airport, like my more worldly friends often do, so while I'm thinking of it:

The Museum of Jurassic Technology was exactly, exactly my sort of thing. rushthatspeaks, rezendi, you were 100% right that I needed to see it and I'm ( Read more... )