The first song on Natalie Merchant's album Leave Your Sleep is Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience , by Charles Causley, a title ...

My favorite Duran Duran song is "Secret Oktober" which was the B side of the single "Union of the Snake," back when sing...

Here is a video of "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May," performed by Natalie Merchant and based upon the poem by E.E. Cummings. I...

Jules of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast sent me this video by StoryCorps . It's an animated video of Joshua Littman, a 12 yea...

A friend sent me a video of the mighty Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë Sisters represented as action figures battling the evil publishing i...

Have you ever seen The Powers of Ten (10) by Ray and Charles Eames? It's a short film about exponents that extend outward toward the co...

Versant Media created my promotional storytelling video and it's finally available for you to view! Here it is:

I've uploaded a home-movie of last night's Lantern Walk . It's on A Storytelling of Crows, my adjunct blog (and thus far my Mart...

Musician and early-childhood music educator Brian Vogan has a new video out for his song That's How a Pumpkin Grows from his debut alb...

I was amused by this video clip of Sir Ian McKellen on acting from a program called Extras : I think writers as well as actors will apprecia...

I appreciate it when an artist shames a big big beaurocratic organization into realizing that they can't get away with bad policies. I d...

Here is the interview Stephen Colbert did with Neil Gaiman: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Neil Gaiman comedycentral.com Co...

As promised, here is the account of my promotional storytelling video shoot. Grace Stahre of VersantMedia is producing it. Grace spent a co...

The storytelling video shoot went well yesterday! I plan to give you an account soon, but in the meantime, does this video clip ring any bel...

Eric Herman has a new video called "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon." It's a lullaby off of Herman's last album, "S...

I've had Charlotte Diamond's "Octopus" song (aka "Slippery Fish") going through my head the past few days. You c...

The Onion has the scoop on the YouTube contest which challenges contestants to make a good video. The prize is 100 thousand dollars: YouTub...

I recently started a satellite blog called A Storytelling of Crows . As of now, I plan for it to be primarily a site for me to share audio ...

Many thanks to Sam Riddleburger and Cece Bell for their pumpkin carving tutorial . Bede used a dry-wall saw to carve this jack-'o-lanter...

Once upon a time, the descriptive line of my blog read, "Songs, stories and puppet shows." I haven't done a puppet show in a l...