-
The Holly and the Ivy
I discovered the English carol "The Holly and the Ivy" thanks to Heather Dale's album Perpetual Gift. The similar phonetics with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy then had a natural outcome after a dive into various fan wikis.
( The Holly and the Ivy, Are both from Arkham gone ) -
Song from Utanmyra
I haven't written much lately, and those songs I did write were a bit varied in quality or were quite narrow in their topics. But here is an English translation of a Swedish folk song and jazz standard: Visa från Utanmyra (notation), with modern lyrics by Björn Lindroth, written in 1963 and most famously recorded by Monica Zetterlund (Youtube ( Read more... ) -
A Flower and a Hufflepuff, presented
The marvellous Moss Bliss presented my "A Flower and a Hufflepuff" at the recent GAFilk, and it was recorded!
Crossposted from https://kjn.dreamwidth.org/80475.html. Please comment there.
-
Properly describing fandoms
In order to describe different fandoms easily and succinctly, I propose the following terminology ( Read more... ) -
Hugo nominations
Back when EPH was discussed for reworking the way Hugo nominations would work, I wrote Grokking E Pluribus Hugo. Back then, a meme ran around that it was better to nominate fewer works in one category in order to not dilute your voting power as a nominator, and it seems to still be running around among some people as they talk about their eligible ( Read more... ) -
We Want Much More Captain Marvel
Back in the 80s in Sweden, local music was lousy with earworms. One of middling ones was "Vi vill ha mera" (Youtube) by Kenneth and the Knutters.
Then
( Read more... )
Click to view