rla on November 4th, 2024
Joseph

We attend to Consequences – intended, unintended, mostly comic (sort of), with a wide variety of stories, poems, and music, including one of George Ade’s Fables in Slang (illustrated here). You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]

Clarence

rla on October 21st, 2024

We attend to Charm, elaborating on a short essay on charm by Richard Dury. Charm, from words, to amulets, to personal characteristics, to performance. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]

The leprous falsifiers

In an age of lies and of distancing from what’s really going on, we attend again to Dante’s depiction of the lowest form of fraud – a jumbled mass of falsifiers of different kinds, their fabrications manifesting as various diseases. You are inivted to attend – if you dare! [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]

The storm-tossed Flying Dutchman

We attend to this season’s storms, both outer and inner weather, with a large cast joining us: Robert Frost, Richard Wagner, the Flying Dutchman, the Beatles, Al Green, The Band, Dante, Andre Dubus, Odetta, Tammy Wynette, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen. You are invited to attend. [As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]

rla on September 9th, 2024

We begin with the Pied Piper, a song, then Browning’s wonderful poem, and then move on to much else, including Malcolm Guite, Kenneth Grahame, RLS, Tom Robbins, Amiri Baraka. You are invited to come along, following the piper. [First heard on Cambridge 105 Radio]

rla on July 3rd, 2024

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i pusillanimi

We attend to the ramifications of Dylan’s line “What good am I if I’m like all the rest?”, stopping off at the story of Jonah, Dante’s mindless conformists, and lots more. You are invited to attend. (As heard on Cambridge 105 Radio)