MobyD - Celtic Music, Puns, Science Fiction, Photos

A sense of humor has helped me get through my times in jobs in corporate America, the national disaster known as the Bush Years and just life in general. Here's some lenses that, in a way, document the lighter moments in my life.

Novelty songs often become popular for a while at least. They enjoyed a lot of airplay in the 1950s and 1960s. Songs from those decades dominate the top 50 list of novelty songs. But many of the songs are from people who had their moment of fame with...

This lens points to other lenses I've made highlighting Celtic music performers as well as radio shows, both broadcast and Internet, that play the traditional music of the Celtic lands. Celtic music covers a lot of territory and many performers. Each...

The first lens I created on Squidoo was about Spider Robinson, author of the Callahan's Saloon stories and novels and the Stardance trilogy, written with his wife Jeanne. Since then I've created lenses for other favorite authors of science fiction, n...

I've been reading science fiction most of my life. Although I do read other stuff, I'd say probably 80% of the bookshelf space in my apartment is devoted to science fiction collected over the years. I remember reading a short story collection my sis...

Mount St. Helens, located in Southwest Washington State, blasted its way into the history books on Sunday, May 18, 1980 in a spectacular eruption that claimed 57 lives. In March 1980, it began rumbling, attracting the attention of vulcanologists worl...

The Twilight Zone, a science fiction anthology television series created and narrated by Rod Serling, aired from 1959 to 1964, with a total of 156 episodes shown. It was the most successful series of its kind, and the term "twilight zone" became a po...

Pyewackett was a British folk band that combined traditional material, much of it from John Playford's English Dancing Master books first published in 1651, with modern instrumentation and some classic American jazz songs from the early to mid-20th c...

Are faeries, pixies, goblins, wizards and witches real? Some say they certainly are; others aren't sure. But for at least one weekend a year (it was July 31 - August 2 in 2009) the question can be put aside for the Faerieworlds festival at Mount Pisg...

Adrienne Barbeau is an American television, film, character and musical theater actress.

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Do you ever want to include odd characters in your lenses but don't know how? Or want to show HTML markups in a tutorial lens? This lens shows you how to do that and includes lists of the most useful characters.

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses! This lens assumes...

Nowell Sing We Clear is a concert of traditional English carols and seasonal songs started in 1975 by English ex-patriates John Roberts and Tony Barrand and American musicians Fred Breunig and Steve Woodruff. Roberts and Barrand, who met as students...

Celtic music and Christmas go together very nicely. Celtic artists often perform old traditional tunes not heard on commercial radio and give more familiar tunes a traditional Celtic feel. Celtic music and New Age music go together quite nicely as we...

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore, also known as "The Night Before Christmas," is probably the most famous poem of the season. In the early 1990s I "translated" it into Anguish Languish. My first encounter with Anguish Languish was in...

Holiday and seasonal songs and tunes performed on traditional instruments associated with Celtic music will take you far from the supermarkets and commercial radio and put new life in your seasonal celebrations. Performers from both sides of the Atla...

Maggie's Music serves up seven delightful CDs and a DVD for your seasonal listening pleasure. Performers from the label include Al Petteway and Amy White, Ensemble Galilei, Maggie Sansone, Sue Richards and Bonnie Rideout. They are joined on their off...