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Oct. 2nd, 2008 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwNeil Gaiman is on a book tour, promoting "The Graveyard Book." He's doing sequential readings at sequential stops on the tour, and they're being posted at
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
I can hardly wait until tomorrow to hear the next installment. I could buy the book, of course, but this way is more wonderful.
The psych teacher gave us handouts of "Jabberwocky" with the assignment to translate it, or at least summarize it, and to describe the appearance of the characters. I don't have any memory of what I thought the Jabberwock looked like before I saw pictures of it, but I did think fondly of performing it at NEFFA in the early 1980s with an a cappella group named Thistle. We sang it to the tune of the Sacred Harp song "Parting hand.," It took me a few seconds to find a version on Youtube by the Red Clay Ramblers. They probably had it in their repertoire at about the same time we did, although with the proper words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5R65mxaEFw&feature=related
(PS if the person who replied anonymously when I mentioned the Fuzzy Mountain String Band last year is reading this, Hi).
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
I can hardly wait until tomorrow to hear the next installment. I could buy the book, of course, but this way is more wonderful.
The psych teacher gave us handouts of "Jabberwocky" with the assignment to translate it, or at least summarize it, and to describe the appearance of the characters. I don't have any memory of what I thought the Jabberwock looked like before I saw pictures of it, but I did think fondly of performing it at NEFFA in the early 1980s with an a cappella group named Thistle. We sang it to the tune of the Sacred Harp song "Parting hand.," It took me a few seconds to find a version on Youtube by the Red Clay Ramblers. They probably had it in their repertoire at about the same time we did, although with the proper words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5R65mxaEFw&feature=related
(PS if the person who replied anonymously when I mentioned the Fuzzy Mountain String Band last year is reading this, Hi).
