Corybanter
By Cory Howell
It's an audio companion to my website, Corybanter.com, where I share my thoughts on a variety of subjects that interest me: Shakespeare, the Bible, Sherlock Holmes, languages, and more.
(Formerly known as the Willy Wigglestick Podcast, and some other names...)
CorybanterApr 14, 2016
I'm back in 2024! A little update
So, I've created a hub for all my blogging at Corybanter.com, so you can find all of my blogs in one place!
I've also started a new Corybanter Substack, where I will share some of my favorite blog posts from over the years. Check it out, and consider subscribing!
I talk about all of it on my first episode of 2024. Stay tuned for more in the not-too-distant future!
CORRECTION: in the episode, I mention the Weebly version of my Baker Street Babble blog, having forgotten that I moved it to Tumblr.
That's a wrap on 2023!
Wherein I record a random podcast episode (which I consistently refer to as The Corybantic Podcast, its older name)...just because.
What is the State of the Bible?
Wherein I discuss the 2022 State of the Bible report from the American Bible Society and the Barna Research Group.
Webinar - David Plake, Skye Jethani, David Kinnaman
Putting the ME in Social Media
Today I'm talking about my most recent adventures in the bewildering landscape of social media. You can find me at these social media sites
@CorybanterBlog on Twitter, @Corybanter on Post.news, and @corybanter on spoutible.com.
What are these horses, and why are they so crazy?
I'm trying out a feature on Anchor called Music+Talk.
I've chosen for my first musical excursion a song by The Osmonds, "Crazy Horses."
I hope you enjoy this first attempt at a little musical breakdown. If I can get it figured out, I may try some more of these episodes!
(This ep was originally recorded over a year ago, but I had to make some edits, which meant I had to re-submit it to Spotify. So now it's a BONUS episode!)
The picture is a photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash.
I'm getting there!
Adventures & misadventure in blogging/podcasting, as your host attempts to make sense of everything.
The theme music at the beginning is "A Good Bass for Gaming," a piece of music in the public domain.
UPDATE: It looks like forwarding to my blog is working just fine now! If anyone has any problems with the link or the URL, please let me know.
February 3, 2023
Aaaaaaaand we're back!
It's been awhile, but I just revamped my blogging, in an effort to simplify it. So I figured it might just be time to give the ol' podcast another try!
Feel free to check out my Corybanter blog when you get a chance!
(UPDATE: Shortly after I recorded the episode, I decided to rename the podcast, hopefully for the last time. So now it's just called Corybanter.)
The Whole Enchilada
Wherein I talk about all of it, all of my different interests that show up from time to time in my blogging and podcasting.
Well, to be honest, I don't know if this is ALL of it. But I think it's most of it...
(My apologies for the somewhat sub-par sound quality of this episode. I realized in the middle of recording that I had forgotten to plug in my higher quality mic. By that time I had recorded so much material, I couldn't bear to go back and re-do the whole thing. So sound quality is a bit spotty.)
I mention a few of my blogs in the episode; here are the links to a few of my blogs you may like to check out:
- Corybanter: my main personal blog
- Willy Wigglestick: my main Shakespeare blog
- Bites of Bard: my Shakespeare "mini-blog"
- Baker Street Babble: my Sherlock Holmes blog
- Bible Bookshelf: my Bible themed blog
- Bible & Prayer Book: a blog where I explore The Book of Common Prayer
Hello again...it's been awhile!
Wherein I check in with the listeners, if there are any left.
It's been awhile, and I thought I might give it another try!
The Corybantic Podcast is Back!
And it's DICTIONARY TIME!
In this episode, I talk about my love of dictionaries, and some of the favorite dictionaries in my own collection.
I also manage to blank on the title of a book I currently have checked out from the library. It's entitled Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. It's by an English lexicographer named Sidney Landau, and I'm finding it fascinating and very enjoyable to read.
I also mention my favorite book about lexicography, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, by Kory Stamper. Highly recommended!
The theme music is THINGAMAJIG by Jason Shaw, and is licensed under an Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Words, words, words...my Shakespeare-themed reading
I've read a couple great books centered on Shakespeare just recently. In this episode, I talk about a couple books I've just read.
In the episode, I mention a couple things I encountered on the radio and online that let to my choice of reading material for this week. That includes this review from Bardfilm, as well as this NPR segment.
Don't forget the Willy Wigglestick Blog, at willywigglestick.wordpress.com!
Podcast music: Sonatina by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Happy birthday, Willy!
The Willy Wigglestick podcast officially debuts with a birthday tribute to the Bard!
Podcast music: Sonatina by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
And now for something completely different...
On a whim, and since I've really been into Shakespeare recently, I thought I'd share some audio of a Shakespeare speech I recorded back towards the beginning of the pandemic.
This is Edmund's soliloquy from Act I, Scene 2 of King Lear. Enjoy!
Blog, blog, bloggity-blog
Wherein I talk about one of my favorite things to do: blogging.
Feel free to check out some of the blogs mentioned in the episode:
- The Corybantic Podcast Blog (linked to this podcast on Wordpress)
- Corybanter (the original Tumblr version)
- Corybanter.com (the swanky new version)
- Baker Street Babble (my Sherlock Holmes blog)
- Bible Bookshelf (my blog about English versions of the Bible)
- Willy Wigglestick (my Shakespeare blog)
- Bites of Bard (my Shakespeare "mini-blog")
- Bible & Prayer Book (my journeys through the Bible, with the aid of the Book of Common Prayer)
- Dallas: the Poetry of Alice K. Howell (transcriptions of my grandmother's poetry)
- A Corybantic Blog (a supplement to my main blog on Medium.com)
- Corybanter (something I'm experimenting with on Postach.io)
- Qoheleth (a TypePad blog that I haven't really maintained)
- Corybantic Musings (something I've played around with on Dreamwidth.org)
The theme music is THINGAMAJIG by Jason Shaw, and is licensed under an Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Much Ado About...Something
Wherein I talk about my favorite Shakespeare comedy, which also happens to be the quintessential "RomCom"...Much Ado About Nothing.
Here are some of the productions of Much Ado I mention in the episode:
- The Kenneth Branagh film (1993), for free w/ ads
- ShakespeareRe-Told adaptation (2005)
- The Globe Theatre live performance (2011)
- The Wyndham Theatre production, starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant (2011)
- The Joss Whedon film (2012), to buy or rent on YouTube
- The Public Theater production (2019), PBS Great Performances
Adventures with The Book of Mormon
Wherein I discuss some of my history with one of the more important American religious publications of the past two centuries, The Book of Mormon. It's one of the several things that I collect for fun and enjoyment, and some folks are surprised when they hear that it's one of my interests. Enjoy!
(Incidentally, if you want to read the Book of Mormon for yourself, obviously you can contact LDS Missionaries in your area or online. Or if you're not interested in doing that, it is available for free at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints website. Also, my friend KC Kern has a great site for reading, and listening to, the BoM, called BookofMormon.Online. KC is LDS, and his site has all kinds of facsimiles of historical editions of the BoM.)
The Corybantic Podcast is back and BETTER!
I've just moved my podcast from Podbean to Anchor.fm. It seems to be a more user-friendly platform, and I think it will work well for my purposes.
BTW, a little shout-out to Gary Miller's Narrow Gate Podcast, which inspired me to switch platforms. If you're interested in the Bible or the Book of Mormon, I've found his podcast quite interesting.
Here's my main blog, Corybanter.com, in case you'd like to check it out.
Be looking for new episodes of The Corybantic Podcast very soon!
Of Hobbits and Fan Edits
Wherein I talk about my recent foray into the world of fan edits of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy. The theme music is THINGAMAJIG by Jason Shaw, and is licensed under an Attribution 3.0 United States License. (Photo by Bence Kondor from Pexels)
Esperanto & Ido & Klingon, Oh My!
Wherein I describe the many rabbit holes I've been down over the past week: my experiences with Esperanto, Ido, and other conlangs. [The theme music is "A Good Bass for Gambling," written by Komiku. It is in the public domain.]
In Praise of Roget's
Wherein I talk about my love for thesauri, particularly Roget's, and discuss how a thesaurus works. You can read more about Peter Mark Roget at this article from the Merriam-Webster site. If you want to see an excellent example of Roget's International Thesaurus, that's a lot closer to Roget's original layout than those dictionary-style thesauri one often sees, check out this free copy of Roget's International Thesaurus, 3rd ed. [The theme music is "A Good Bass for Gambling," written by Komiku. It is in the public domain.]
Figuring out what to do during coronavirus lockdown
You can check out my revamped blog at Corybanter.com.
[The theme music is "A Good Bass for Gambling," written by Komiku. It is in the public domain.]
Shakespeare's Melancholy Dane
The theme music is an electronic version of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Allegro, which is a public domain recording available at freepd.com.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare: My collection
[The theme music is "A Good Bass for Gambling," written by Komiku. It is in the public domain.]
Happy Birthday, Bill Shakespeare!
Some sites mentioned in the episode include:
www.nashvilleshakes.org/
shakespeare.folger.edu/
www.opensourceshakespeare.org/
internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/
The theme music is THINGAMAJIG by Jason Shaw, and is licensed under an Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Bye bye, Bible Bookshelf...hello, Corybantic!
In the episode, I mention the Folger Library's free Shakespeare audiobooks: here's a link to that.
Thanks for listening!
The Corybantic Podcast trailer
Episode 5: Return of the Son of Bible Bookshelf
Bible Bookshelf podcast returns!
Episode 3: Shakespeare and the King James Bible
Episode 2: The Ferrar Fenton Bible