The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

The Teacher’s Lament
You have some time today, I see.
Your teacher’s canceled Chemistry.
My class won’t start till three-thirty.
And would it okay with me,
Since there’s some place you’d rather be,
You ask, I hope, facetiously,
Whether I would mind terribly,
If you skipped my class and left early.
I try not to take it personally,
But it’s very plain for me to [...]

Monty Python was satirical in a timeless way, which is why their Crackpot Religions sketch is (unfortunately) just as true now, if not more so, as it was back then. Now of course we have Scientology, and I cannot help but wonder what Crackpot team would have to say about that:
“We at the Church [...]

In honor of Canada Day, here’s one of Jim Carrey’s funniest routines: Canada

By the way, I think we should stop blaming them now. They’ve been blamed for everything long enough.

I never really considered myself much of a Michael Jackson fan. I never bought any of his albums. However, once initial shock wore off and the reality of his death hit me, I suddenly felt incredibly sad. It was like part of my childhood just died.
Despite his recent legal troubles and increasingly bizarre behavior, [...]

Earlier today I was simply blown away by Susan Boyle’s performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent. It’s something that has to be seen (and heard) to be believed.
Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods four lads from Borlänge, Sweden (never to be outdone by the Brits) treated the audience of [...]

One of the weirder things about me is that I really enjoy musical productions.
I’ve been to local theater or touring performances of some of the greatest shows on earth, including: My Fair Lady, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Phantom of the Opera, Oliver, The Sound of Music, The Mikado, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor [...]

Here are the lyrics to a song that has recently become my anthem: My Life from Billy Joel’s 52nd Street Album.
Got a call from an old friend
We used to be real close
Said he couldn’t go on the American way
Closed the shop, sold the house
Bought a ticket to the West Coast
Now he gives them a stand-up [...]

A palindrome is a word and/or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards. One of the better known and more symmetrical palindromes is, “Rats Live On No Evil Star.” Here’s “Weird Al” Yankovic’s brilliant song, “Bob” in which every line is a palindrome:

I’ve really been on the go lately, haven’t I?
First I moved to a new city and now I’m visiting the beautiful people and places in California and Arizona. My brother and his fiance (now wife) tied the knot in the city of Sedona, one of the most unique and beautiful places in Arizona and the rest [...]

I love books, but lately I just haven’t seemed to have any patience for novels and fiction. The pocket book (paperback) shop at the the central station in downtown Gothenburg has a pleasantly large selection of English language titles in both fiction and non-fiction.
Along with everything else here in Sweden, books (especially English books) tend [...]