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Musical Folly

Yaaarrrr! Pirate Day!

by Richard

No, unfortunately, yesterday wasn’t International Talk Like A Pirate Day. That’s Sept. 19. And, yes, it should be a national holiday. The reason for the post title is the mascot of East Carolina University, Pee Dee the Pirate.

Yeah, I know. I’ve got a thing for pirates. Leave me alone.

Anyway, dudes, Zippy the Monkey Boy and [...]

A Dude By Any Other Name

by Richard

George of the Jungle hates his name. I mean he really hates his name. Which makes it so very hard for me not to call him that. I know. I’m a very bad person. Sigh.

See, the deal is this: George of the Jungle got his name because, just a few short months after he got [...]

One Tiny Flaw

by Richard

So we had plans for the most perfect Christmas tree in existence. I mean, we had enough ornaments to decorate the world tree Yggdrasil and have some left over, maybe. All right. Probably not that many ornaments, but it sure isn’t a small number.

Anyway. We had the tree. We had the uber-stand, designed to prevent [...]