Just the green wave going by

[sovay]

"Does anyone still celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day?" I wondered, before it occurred to me that I could just ask the internet and discover the answer was yes. In keeping with my haphazard observance of the holiday, have an admiring gifset of Robert Newton heroically impersonating a wrecker in Jamaica Inn (1939) and Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett on "Soon May the Wellerman Come," which is neither a pirate song nor even a chantey, it's a tall tale of a shore-whalers' song from New Zealand, but I was immensely entertained when it took the quarantine internet by storm. I was listening to it along with the rest of its album last week.

I dreamed of a polite conversation with a stranger who was surprised in a slightly skeptical way to hear that I had been writing and publishing short fiction and poetry for more than twenty years, which I suppose suggests my state of mind regarding what no longer feels like it passes for my writing career. I am reminding myself that I have some sort of (multiply tested as such) miserable cold and may be concomitantly low in spirits and should take a walk or something while it's this autumnally bright. I bet it isn't helping that my college reunion for which I did not RSVP because I was too sick to know whether I had any chance of attending is coming up.

Comments

Bok Muir Trickett

[lauradi7dw]

Holy cow, that's a blast from the past. I'm glad they're all alive and still in fine voice. And that the Folk Legacy label still exists, more or less.

Be careful with your cold. Arthur had what seemed to be a cold and has turned out to be "walking" pneumonia.

Re: Bok Muir Trickett

[sovay]

Holy cow, that's a blast from the past. I'm glad they're all alive and still in fine voice. And that the Folk Legacy label still exists, more or less.

I am afraid they are no longer all alive; Ed Trickett died last year. Ann Mayo Muir and Gordon Bok are still around, which I am glad of. I grew up on his records. My parents used to put on Peter Kagan and the Wind (1971) for me to fall asleep to, but I would always stay awake to hear the end of the story.

Be careful with your cold. Arthur had what seemed to be a cold and has turned out to be "walking" pneumonia.

Thanks for the warning; also, blech. How is he doing?

Arthur

[lauradi7dw]

Very fatigued, but only coughing in spurts (not constantly). I'll be away this weekend, but he claims he can take care of himself.

Re: Arthur

[sovay]

Very fatigued, but only coughing in spurts (not constantly). I'll be away this weekend, but he claims he can take care of himself.

Tell him I wish him well.