Chicago Tribune, May 11, 1875. This kind of thing happens to me all the time–other bloggers try to provoke me into throwing a punch so they can pull out a hand cannon. Old media, new media: what’s the difference?
I’m not familiar with an opera or operetta called Deborah. Anyone know of it?
I’ve never seen “nerve” as an adjective before, but I kinda like it.
“Downing’s carrying a pistol was regarded by everybody as a joke”–ouch!
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And from the Department of Useless Information: “Deborah” (also performed in English as “Leah, the Forsaken”) was an extremely popular play by S. H. Mosenthal, still going strong in the late 80s. The plot involves a Jewish girl in love with a Christian boy in 17th-century Germany. Death ensues.
I knew, I knew, I knew I could count on you.
Death always ensues in cases of forbidden love, and most often it’s the woman who dies. It happens so often in operas (and I guess plays too), there’s even a word for it: opera-rational (inspired by spell-check gone awry).
On a vaguely opera-related note, I mostly have my voice back, and will try my best to get the Hope Chest theme song recorded this weekend.
Glad to hear you are feeling better, Jackie!
Be sure to
drink your ovaltinecheck your e-mail. I finished recording the song.Wee-hawk! Awesome Finn is awesome!
If I can figure out how, I’m going to try to sync it to a slide show of headlines and post same to Youtube.
Okay, I am off to listen to it.
If you want or need the file as a raw WAV, I can send it to you that way.
Hi Jackie:
That’d be great. I’m having zero luck here. Been downloading all kinds of “Vorbis” and “codec” and other stuff I don’t know what is, but to no avail.
I put the WAV file on zShare because the file is huge. I’m not sure how long they keep files, but I recommend grabbing it as soon as possible.
What the hell is signified by “nerve to the last”?Is it the opposite of ,say, “buddies to the end”?
It’s like “Oh man, that was nerve!” The kids were saying it.