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Category Archives: Art
Poem of the Week: 12/21/08-12/27/08
This week’s poem of the week is Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen.
Igloo Construction Explained
Complete Calvin And Hobbes On the Net?
This seems to be the complete Calvin and Hobbes. But it does not come with a lot of description.
Poem of the Week: 12/14/08– 12/20/08
This week’s poem of the week is Rich Mullin’s song The Howling.
Joel Dueck on old time Christmas carols
Poem of the Week: 12/7/08-12/13/08
This week’s poem of the week is The Ballad of God-Makers by G. K. Chesterton
Some days, this is what the world seems like
I look around and see history in the making. But the only thing that seems to hold men’s interest is the desire to rob a bank.
The only unrealistic thing about the above is that the results are much benign.
Poem of the Week: 11/30/08-12/6/08
This week’s poem of the week is John Milton’s meditation on his blindness.
Poem of the Week: 11/23/08-11/29/08
This week’s poem of the week is the much quoted St. Crispen’s Day Speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V.
You can follow the link above to read it for yourself or you can watch it performed below. My main complaint with the performance is that everyone looks right except Henry himself.
And if you are the type that wants to see the battle afterwards click here. The only noteworthy part is that the actors portraying the English do a good job of looking scared when the French charge them.