To Fold or Not to Fold? That is the Publisher's Question

If you have studied Shakespeare even a little bit, you should have been exposed to the idea of folios and quartos, not to mention octavos or thirty-twomo's.  If not you are about to be educated.

A thirty-twomo (its a book size :-)

The King's Speech

So I don't know why I didn't put this on our blog a few weeks ago, but it is the video of our class midterm.  It is a memorized choral recitation of King Benjamin's speech from the Book of Mormon.  I won't say much about it, we'll let the words speak for themselves.

Aspara and the Churning Sea as performance

Last week, I introduced the Khmer both as an ancient and a modern civilization. This week in class we have had rich discussions on myth and ritual. Our discussions reminded me of what I experienced visiting Cambodia in 2006. In preparation for the trip, we studied the myths that we would see repeatedly in the country, sort of like brushing up on the best hits of the Bible before touring cathedrals. We each were assigned several myths by my mother and subsequently relayed them for the enlightenment and education of our family. Once we arrived in Cambodia we found the myths everywhere and expressed much more eloquently than our home spun attempts.