Saturday Poetry Corner 26: Rondel of Merciless Beauty

Today is the poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. 
Substitute "queen" for a "king" and the reason behind the picture above will become clear.

Throwback Thursday Part 51

In 1941 at the13th Academy Awards, James Stewart & Ginger Rogers win for "Rebecca". Therefore, today's Throwback Thursday is to the year 1941.

Saturday Poetry Corner 25: [Triple Threat By One Poet]

 

Today, not one, not two but three poems by one poet - Robert Service. More about him here. Granted, they are not thought very highly by them critics, and even Service said his poems are verses not poetry. But still, they are fun and melodic to read.

Throwback Thursday Part 50

In 1816 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome. Therefore today's Throwback Thursday is to songs that have a city in their title.

Return of the Giant Killers: Africa's Lion Kings (2015)

We had a split in the lion pride protected by 5 brothers and 3 of them left. Then we had a fearless leader moving into the eternal plains full of game and the emergence of her heiress. 

It's not the most informative documentary out there, not an ounce of a knowledge except for the fact that lions, if the circumstances are right, can hunt elephants.

KBS Drama Special 2019: A Child Saw

Episode 2 in the 2019 series of KBS Drama Special has the title A Child Saw and it connects to two things - literal quote from the song that Sunho and Dongja were singing on the bridge and to what the girl finally saw in Sunho.

This is one of the KBS best in short stories.

Saturday Poetry Corner 24: Goblin Market

Today - a story by Christina Rossetti in a form of a poem.

I hope you will be patient because it is a long poem, but full of word plays and fun moments and yet, poignant and really really nice.

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 7/7: Africa

 

In this episode we have: a chimpanzee learning how to make tools, a group of five cheetahs devising a new strategy of hunting (using decoys, how smart!), an aardvark who can dig to six meters down, cichlid fish that use their mouths as a nursery (buccal incubation) - and cuckoo catfish that add their eggs so cichlids would care for them. The babies are ruthless - they eat all cichlid babies. 

Also, less than 8000 cheetahs left and two white rhinos females.

BBC Seven Worlds One Planet 6/7: North America

In this episode: a hare faster than Canadian lynx, a road runner running after lizards, polar bears cooperating in lean summer months, alligators that can slow down their heartbeats to ONE per minute and shoals of fish called mullets.

Saturday Poetry Corner 23: Hope is That Thing With Feathers

 

 

Today a very short poem by Emily Dickinson.