Post 1- 2/1/10: The Diary of Alice James
"These long pauses don't point to any mental aridity, my 'roomy forehead' is as full as ever of germinating thughts, but alas the machinery is more and more out of kilter.  I am sorry for you all, for I feel as if I hadn't even yet given my message.  I would there were more bursts of enthusiasm, less of the carping tone, through this, but I fear it comes by nature, and after all, the excellent Islander will ne'er be crushed by the knowledge of the eye that was upon him, through the long length of years, and the monotone of the enthusiast is more wearisome to sustain than a dyspeptic one." -Diary of Alice James, September 3, 1881

1/25/2010

“But once she found herself in the long hall and close to the glass table.  “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.  Then she set to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage; and then- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains,” (last paragraph of the tea party chapter from Alice in Wonderland).

April 28, 2010

final performance with Calamity

[sung to the tune of that camp classic "The Princess Pat; or, Rigabamboo"]

The Siblings James

MANDATORY AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

The siblings James

Are super smart

Their IQs are

Well, off the chart.

There’s Alice, Will,

And Henry too.

(Wilky and Bob fought in the war,

But came back too blue.)

These three are

The siblings James.

The siblings James,

Now who are they?

They wrote some stuff,

4/27/2010 Tomorrow's Presentation with FABELHAFT

[sung to the tune of that camp classic "The Princess Pat; or, Rigabamboo"]

The Siblings James

MANDATORY AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

The siblings James

Are super smart

Their IQs are

Well, off the chart.

There’s Alice, Will,

And Henry too.

(Wilky and Bob fought in the war,

But came back too blue.)

These three are

The siblings James.

The siblings James,

Now who are they?

Fresh Family Rap

Now, this is the story all about how

Henry James Sr. and his kids turned out

And we'd like to take a minute

Just sit right there

And we'll tell you bout the Jameses and their life of despair.

All over the world they were born and raised

Outside the classroom they spent most of their days

Reading' and learnin' on their own instead

(‘cept for little Alice all laid up in her bed)

When their good old dad

Who spent some time abroad,

Started callin’ all their education flawed

They went to one boarding school before he volunteered,