Well, off to Baycon for Sunday night. For the first time in years, I am neither a guest of, nor attending member of a convention on Memorial Day weekend. It's . . . kind of weird. I want to go but . . . ennui is hard to overcome. Oh, well. perhaps a good night of filking while Beauty dances will go down well. We shall see.

Well, instead of going to OVFF, I stayed home. NEXT YEAR! (maybe) Anyway, I found out at the last minute that the San Francisco Opera was doing a costume sale, the first one they've done in 14 years. Now, I need stuff for Dickens, and besides, Costumes! I thought, hey, spend a couple of hours there, see the pretties, maybe buy a bowler hat or ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd let everyone know that I've recently joined a new singing group, Brass Farthing ( Read more... )

For anyone in the Bay Area with free time tomorrow, its the First Annual El Cerrito Free Folk Festival. This will be much like the SFFFF - many of the same people involved. I'll be there for the sea shanty and the Harmony workshops. Come and sing!

http://www.elcerritofolkfest.org/

A lot of you know my son, Rob. He's recently been deployed to Iraq, where he does computer support for the Marines. He's said that he'd like a care package, but as for contents, he only says things like, "Oh, you know, munchies." Apparently the commissary there doesn't stock much more than the basics. So, oh LJ friends, what should I send him? I'd ( Read more... )

There is a lot of good food out there. I know this, and you know I know: you don't get a table muscle like mine by being shy with a fork. I love food of all kinds, from the commonplace to the exotic, I'll try just about anything once. (Dog soup? Good stuff; tastes like chicken. Highly spiced chicken.) Still, I find that the simplest foods often ( Read more... )

Wow, an entry two days in a row. I may have to go to the doctor; I must be sick (well, sicker than usual, anyway ( Read more... )

Well, this makes it more than a year since I've posted anything on LJ.  I'm sure that's not a record, but seems worth a mention.  Anyway, I thought I'd share something I found.  Tim Minchin is a skeptic comic who sings most of his material.  That's certainly "found-filkish" is it not?  Anyway, here's a poem I thought aptly summarized much of my ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in the early AM, just back from Conflikt and trying to stay awake long enough to take the kids to school before I crash for the day. Kathy, Isel (sp?) and I drove up through some nasty weather, but got there fine and managed to get some sleep before the first day's activities. The drive back was delayed by snow, but after we got ( Read more... )

BTW, for anyone interested: The Roving Tars, the sea music group I sing with, has a gig on Friday night at McGrath's Irish Pub on Alameda (1539 Lincoln Ave). 8:00 to 10:00, no cover charge. This will probably be substantially the same as our Baycon concert, so if you didn't like that, you may not want to come. (grin)