Culture – Act the Giddy Goat

Memorizing Poetry

12 Aug 201831 Jul 2018

What is more cultured then being able to quote a few lines of poetry? We see it happen in movies all the time, and I'm sure we all have the…

Culture Up: Opera

8 Jul 20188 Jul 2018

Author's Note: This will be a short post. I'm in the middle of a huge summer project. I apologize. Opera isn't so bad. Sure, when you think of it you…

New York City

26 Jun 201826 Jun 2018

Recently I had the opportunity to vacation in New York City for the first time with fellow Giddy Goat, Air, where we also met up with Giddy Goat Brogums! I…

A Night With Anastasia (A Broadway Review)

16 Jun 201816 Jun 2018

Earlier this month my mom and I took a trip to NYC where we met up with two of my fellow Giddy Goats, Air and Gypsy (for the first time…

Culture Up: Music of the 1940’s

10 Jun 20189 Jun 2018

So, this post is a little bit of a cop-out (as if my last culture post wasn't, amiright?). I'm not actually learning and then presenting the information to you. I'm…

When Mario Met Mozart in the War of 1812

1 Jun 201818 May 2018

Not long ago I was attempting to apply for a blogger position and the hiring company had made a joke that if the applicant could combine Super Mario Brothers, the…

Culture Up: Why?

13 May 201813 May 2018

You must drop your vanity, you are not a child … you will soon be thirty. It is time! I expect you…. We all expect you. Anton Chekhov, 1886, in…

Culture Up: NYC Architecture

8 Apr 20188 Apr 2018

Paintings, sculptures, music, and, yes, even architecture! While New York City's buildings might not be quite the peak of high culture, I think they're still worth appreciating. That, and I…

Culture Up: Foreign Films

11 Mar 20181 Mar 2018

I was a little ambitious when I originally planned my "Culture Up" posts. A surprising amount of work goes into each other (though they probably don't read that way). My…

Culture Up: The Persistence of Memory

18 Feb 201815 Feb 2018

Yep. The melting clocks painting. That's how we uncultured folks refer to it. Painted by surrealist painter Salvador Dali in 1931, it currently resides in the Museum of Modern art…