Assistant Village Idiot

I knew, even back in 1969, that the reference was to Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. But I didn't know, until I looked it up ...

Republished from 2011, inspired by the comments about appropriateness for children under the "Train Songs" post. I recall when Jon...

We had an adult Sunday school class recently that used a Bible Project video about the Elohim as its starting point.  One theme which struck...

Don't you just know you would like these guys? <p><p>&am...

I think it means "Wonderful Night of Christmas"

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The title means "The most beautiful piece of the concert of Christmas carols." No, I don't know what the carol is or what it...

I am playing my son's team, The Yardbirds, in fantasy football this week.  He's going to beat me badly, so this seems appropriate. ...

Eugene Volokh reports on violent Amish who shame others who disagree with them by shaving off their beards. Not a satire from The Onion, b...

On The North River , a blog from or near Pembroke, MA, is unhappy with the new UCC hymnal, and the loss of the old Pilgrim Hymnal. There a...

The song title means "Good Morning."  It is a family joke, as Jonathan uses it as his universal Romanian phrase - not only a gre...

Getting lost in YouTube again... Looking through the 60's music for something fun, and I keep coming upon clips from Shindig!   Wait. ...

Best parts: 1. How hard is the choreography here?  Except  she can't manage it. 2. At 1:00, watch what happens to the dancers when th...

Stick with it until about 2:35, anyway. It suddenly goes all 16th C (see below). Richard Thompson was a founder of Fairport Convention, th...

I think this was the first popular song that troubled Ben.  The first he mentioned out loud, anyway, that he had read the lyrics and saw the...

Hang on through this. She has clearly had training, and could have done comic opera quite well.

Manchester HS Central, class of 1971, meets twice Saturday, for breakfast and then evening. We have about 100 from a class of 424. There a...