Almanac Music: Songs About Songs

In this week’s music piece, as part of an ongoing series concerning popular songs, KD discusses ‘songs about songs’, and warmly encourages readers to add their own selections, as well as further discussion.

Almanac Humour: He’s Got The Whole World In His Pants – Mondegreens

In this Friday’s column, KD writes about the unusual and typically amusing phenomenon of mondegreens – those mishearings/misinterpretations usually associated with songs and poems. [Thanks to ‘Swish’ Schwerdt for using the word in a response to a previous post of mine; it inspired this piece – KD]

Tennis and Eternity

Under the glorious elms at Yarrawonga, Dips ponders the essentials of life; generational change and mortality, tennis, music, and realising, as Shakespeare wrote, that “life is but a walking shadow.”