The (Most) Nabobist

No not like in gym class. I'll be blogging a tumblr for a bit to see if it's a fit. t.populi.st.

Transcontinental Dance demo from Robin Cantrell on Vimeo.

My first ukulele strum and sky from phosphors on Vimeo.

“There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available somehow..."

Is there such a thing as lyric diagramming, as with sentences?

This song reminds me of that book, The Alchemist. Inquire within for the whole concert.



Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Harem Scarem Live at Queen's Hall Edinburgh Scotland

it is very easy to carry a shovel
in to the yard and to break ground.
the pick and dig of green velour
breaks crisply under the sharpness
of even the dullest blades.
but for the piling on of that earth, dies as it
mounds round like some gradual pompei
before the screams and witless scrambles
that fell back to earth from such high places.

Vimeo just launched HD quality service…

Check it out full screen with Spider in Front Yard.

Rose Polezani

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The following is a terrific piece ‘in defense’ of the classic kit lens that used to come with all cameras. Now the kit lens tends to be some 28-80mm with indecent glass. I remember my first 50mm lens. It came with my first SLR, a Pentax Super Program. I loved that camera.

So, as I calculate buying my next camera, no doubt a digital, I’m beginning to reminisce about the simplicity of it all back then. That Pentax used a watch battery that I can only remember replacing once in multiple years of use.

The Forgotten Lens by Gary Voth

Kate's Myspace

She'll make you smile.....

Another Uke post, though if I had to choose one this’d be it. “Sam Cooke’s “You Send Me on Uke by Jeremy Warmsley.

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In Our Time is back. Whew. It’s been a long summer.

This week:

Of all the names in ancient philosophy, Socrates is one to conjure with. Born in 469 BC into the golden age of the city of Athens, his impact is so profound that all the thinkers who went before are simply known as pre-Socratic.

In person Socrates was deliberately irritating, he was funny and he was rude; he didn’t like democracy very much and spent quite a lot of time in shoe shops. He claimed he was on a mission from God to educate his fellow Athenians but has left us nothing in his own hand because he refused to write anything down.

Contributors

Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Warwick University

David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University

Paul Millett, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge

In 6 Youtube parts. Not Melvin Bragg radio host, but Melvin Bragg tv host"