Angelique’s Lament, a Dark Shadows Filksong
When I was ten years old, my family moved to the United States for good. I was very lonely, and I didn’t have any friends. (For a fictionalized account of what I was going through, read my story The...
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Music to Listen to While Writing a Novel: Our Lady of Kaifeng
Most people imagine that writing a book is accomplished while sitting. The author dips his quill or taps on the keys of his typewriter or the keyboard of this computer. Naturally, he is sitting down....
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Kipling’s Verse
[This article was first published on Hubpages in 2009. It was deemed to be overly promotional by Hubpages in August of 2012 and hence has been republished, comments and all, here on PubWages. ]...
View ArticleWhat was it like being a medieval scribe? Here’s my guess …
I wrote this yesterday in an an idle moment, while thinking what it might have been like to be a medieval scribe … SCRIBES OF CAMBREATH By Kate Gladstone (tune: MARCH OF CAMBREATH by Heather...
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Canadian singer-songwriter Sylvana White interviewed
Click here to view the embedded video. Let me introduce you to Sylvana White I had the pleasure of an exclusive interview with Canadian singer Sylvana White. Please introduce yourself to my readers....
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Music Review: Avalon is Risen by Leslie Fish
Cover of “Avalon is Risen” Album produced by Prometheus music Produced by Kristoph Klover, performed by Leslie Fish and published by Prometheus Music, Avalon is Risen is the filk album we have all been...
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Two Songs from the Debt Collector by Daniel Carter and Aya Katz Peformed by...
Writing a musical is easy. Getting somebody to perform it is hard. When it comes to the music itself, very few people can even read it. (Confession: I can’t either.) Daniel Carter wrote some beautiful...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Welfare Mother: Another Song from The Debt Collector
The Debt Collector is a libertarian musical set in the 1980s about a family named the Larks, their landlady, Mrs. Hauser, their social worker, Siren, and, in the title role, Blood, the debt collector...
View ArticleCan You Forgive? Another song from The Debt Collector
“Can You Forgive” is a very important song that appears in the third act of The Debt Collector, a libertarian musical composed by Daniel Carter and written by me. Victoria Trestrail, playing the role...
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Where Have All the Nannies Gone? A Review of Saving Mr. Banks
I saw the Disney movie Saving Mr. Banks yesterday, and what’s more I liked it. I am as hard to please as P.L. Travers when it comes to movie appreciation, so this is in itself a small miracle. Though...
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and the Windows XP Sound Recorder
[This filk song was published on Hubpages in 2009 and was later unpublished because of "pixelated images" at a time when HP thought Google would give them their traffic back if only they did not allow...
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Three Songs for Siren
Some people, like Siren the Social Worker, are as elusive and attractive and maddening as butterflies. They flit around leaving havoc in their wake, totally unaware of their part in the damage. We all...
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Two Songs for Mrs. Hauser
Helga Hauser is an immigrant. In the old country, she was a nurse. But she can’t work as a nurse in the United States, because she does not have the government certification. She and her husband...
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Listening To Christmas Music
Do you enjoy listening to Christmas music? I truly enjoy listening to music around the holidays while decorating the Christmas tree. Holiday music brings back nostalgic memories of caroling in the...
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Songs From the Debt Collector, A Libertarian Musical
Some musicals promote class warfare. Les Miserables is one of those, denigrating landlords and elevating the poor to a station of sainthood. The Debt Collector aims to unite us all in understanding of...
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Variations on “The Ash Grove”
[Last Updated on February 26, 2010. First published on Hubpages and then de-indexed.] Folk tunes have a long shelf life. They get re-used often with different lyrics, and we can learn a lot about the...
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The Debt Collector: Three Songs for Blood
Blood Samosude is the title character in the libertarian musical, The Debt Collector. Blood not only makes his living collecting debts, he is also a true believer in the sanctity of contracts. Like...
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I’d Rather Be Free — A Song from THE DEBT COLLECTOR
Not everyone would rather be free. Even if most of us think we would like to be free, very few of us would be willing to pay the ultimate price for our liberty. Not everyone prefers death to loss of a...
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We All Share the Same World — Hebrew Version
“We All Share the Same World” is a song from the libertarian musical, The Debt Collector, by Carter and Katz. This particular song has such universal appeal that it transcends the musical and has...
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Support Your Local Musical Theater
Support Your Local Musical Theatre Aya Katz [This pub was first published on Hubpages in 2010. Due to the current ban on dueling by Hubpages management, I had to move it to PubWages.] Click here to...
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