Take Nash to Heart if you have Teenagers

This Australian student reminds parents of teens to take solace from the following Ogden Nash quote:

“Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for” – Ogden Nash

“Duck! Here comes another year!”

Thanks to J.D. Rhodes of NC, for sharing the above quote from Ogden Nash as we prepare to put up the '08 calendar.

Enthralled about Nothing

Dmitry is inspired by Pretty Days by Ogden Nash. Read the full poem here

Another Nice Present of Ogden Nash

This man made a homemade DVD of Custard the Dragon and gave it to his family.

Ogden Nash Preferred over Jewelry for Christmas

Michelle of Kaysville, UT is very happy to get a book of Ogden Nash as opposed to jewelry for Christmas. Michelle's husband is a lucky man.

A Lesser Known Ogden Nash Christmas Poem

"Christmas Medication (PartII) is presented here by Peter Rohloff


God rest you merry, Innocents,
Let nothing you dismay,
Let nothing wound an eager heart
Upon this Christmas day.
Yours be the genial holly wreaths,
The stockings and the tree;
An aged world to you bequeaths
Its own forgotten glee.

Soon, soon enough come crueler gifts,
The anger and the tears;

Read the rest here

Speak Low as Jazz Classic

Bob Merkin of Massachusetts says that " The American comic poet Ogden Nash doesn't usually rise to the heights of Weill's other lyricists -- Brecht, Georg Kaiser, Ira Gershwin, Langston Hughes -- but "Speak Low" became an instant classic; every chanteusse and jazz great, piano or saxophone, has covered it for half a century, and as long as educated people keep falling in love and need a haunting love song in the background, "Speak Low" will keep being performed and recorded. Billie Holiday grabbed it immediately, as did her pal Sinatra."

Read the entire post plus the lyrics of Speak Low here. There is also reference to the clip from the Nash revival of "One Touch of Venus" on YouTube