Employees Must Wash Haiku

Beyond serious classical music I make a lot of other stuff, most of it very silly. These Three videos are art song settings of haiku written to replace the “Employees Must Wash Hands” signs in the bathrooms of Journeyman. By the way, if you’re anywhere near Boston and haven’t been to Journeyman, go. It’s amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Song of Newt

Newt Gingrich was in trouble, and he thought releasing this press release would help. It’s so operatic, I had to set it to music. Jason Buckwalter tore it up as he always does, and we were finished mere hours after Stephen Colbert got John Lithgow to read it on his show. Okay, they win, but ours has a Richard Strauss joke.

 

 

Actually Happening

I also work on Actually Happening, a current events and history panel game podcast hosted by Victoria Nece. She and I edit it together, and I am one of the team captains. We were briefly the top-rated explicit history podcast on iTunes. We really do earn that explicit tag. If that doesn’t scare you, subscribe on iTunes or check out or latest episodes:

  • Actually Happening Episode 12 — The Beheader of Champagne Bottles
    And now back to your regularly scheduled podcast. We hope you enjoyed that two week interlude of nonsense. This Week: – Snooki is our new neighbor – Investing in Arrow-proof Bibles – Celebrating the 21st Amendment (No thanks to the Carolinas) – The man who singlehandedly destroyed an entire town – Fun-loving Friedrich Engels – [...]
  • Not Actually Happening Ep. 2 — Female Hysteria
    We’re back with a new Not Actually Happening, another mini-episode where we get to talk about the things history got wrong and science screwed up. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we discuss the causes (and cures!) of one of the 19th century’s most common diagnoses: hysteria. Come back next week for the usual show [...]
  • Not Actually Happening Ep. 1 — The Four Humors
    It’s our first ever NOT Actually Happening, a mini-episode where we get to talk about the things history got wrong and science screwed up. What better way to begin a humor podcast than with humorism, one of medical history’s longest-believed wrong ideas? Stop by next week for another Not Actually Happening, and again in two [...]