[post 465]  I started this blog in May, 2009 and nine years and 441 posts later I decided to take a little break. Not out of boredom or any ...

[post 464] "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." —Samuel Johnson,...

 [post 463] I'm betting this has happened to you: You find an affordable place to rehearse, perhaps in a neighborhood that you can also ...

 [post 462] It would have been way too predictable for me to try to fool you on April Fool's Day, but this BBC video from 1957 was actua...

  [post 461] Caroline Simonds sent me the video below, describing it not only as "the best moment in Switzerland" but also "...

[post 460] An article about Trump's attack on Iran from the Financial Page in the highbrow New Yorker — Trump’s Inexcusable Unpreparedn...

[post 459] I recently came across two more Sid Caesar pieces that I liked so much that I had to share them here. And that's even though ...