Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
THE FRENCH AND THE RUSSIANS Once everybody else saw that the Italians had come up with a Good Thing, other countries wanted to get in on it. I already covered the Germans in an earlier […]
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Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
DEATH, OPERATIC STYLE In most operas, somebody dies. Usually it’s the hero or the heroine, or both of them. Occasionally, someone else will get in on the act, too, not wanting to be left out […]
Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
Those Crazy Germans In my last lesson, I mentioned opera plots and how they are reminiscent of lurid cable TV channels that specialize in re-enacted crimes. As an example, I gave the plot of Verdi’s […]
Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
The Stories Opera is more than just middle-aged fat people in period costumes making funny sounds. An opera is a play, with a plot. The only differences between operas and spoken plays are: (1) operas […]
And Yet More Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
The Men (i.e. Tenors, Baritones and Basses) Male opera singers are just as crazy as the females, and just as likely to flay you alive if you get them mad, especially at performance time. Add […]
More Opera for People Who Don’t Like It
In my last post, I talked about prostitutes, psychos and tuberculosis. In this one, I will discuss various violent means by which operatic characters meet their ends. Some of these would make the ID Channel […]
Unicorn Bites 1/20/14
Cops traced the malware attack at Target to a 17-year-old hacker. In the meantime, I’m almost 30 and I still can’t attach files to an email.— Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) January 21, 2014 Me: Let’s have […]
Opera For People Who Don’t Like It
It has come to my attention that there are people who don’t like opera. My opinion is that we all have a right to dislike whatever we feel like disliking because we have free will, […]
Catching up with Greg Brady: My Conversation with Barry Williams
When you’ve spent nearly five years of Friday nights with a guy, even decades later, you can’t help but wonder about him. So I phoned Barry Williams from my Brady Bunch Days to chat about […]
HumorOutcasts Radio – Interview with Raymond McAnally
This was such a fun interview that even my dog wanted in. Raymond McAnally is a gifted actor and co-founder of the popular Daily Fiber Films. Along with numerous stage credits, Raymond has appeared in […]