Monday, October 4, 2010

Captain Nemo

As I said last week, this is a busy time of year for me. I'm much like Captain Nemo going down in the submarine- I'll surface from time-to-time, but my appearances won't be all that common.

On Saturday, I left the house at 7:45 AM, and drove to 238th St and Broadway in the Bronx to catch the subway to Manhattan for my volunteer gig. The 1 Train was not running from 168th St uptown, so I had to take a shuttle bus to 207th and catch the A Train. I spent the morning and the early afternoon teaching (we're not so much teachers as fighters, and what we teach is how to fight), then reversed the process. I then drove to the job (this is a busy, busy time of year), and ended up dragging my ass home around 1:30 AM Sunday.

Yeah, this time of year, I joke to my upstairs neighbor that I am the ghost who haunts the downstairs apartment. I'll try to post on a semi-regular basis, but the posts will be most likely be pretty short, perfunctory even.

8 comments:

  1. short, ok. perfunctory, ok. Just be entertaining and funny.
    You know, your usual self.....

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  2. I've been posting a lot, but it's not like I didn't have work to do.

    It's that I don't like that work...so I'm spending some extra time to maybe change it. (The work, that is, not my feelings about it.)
    ~

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  3. Captain Nemo going down in the submarine

    Needs moar Filthbot.

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  4. Having never heard of the Horslips before, one is prompted to ask, did they sue Jethro Tull?

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  5. Why would they sue the inventor of the seed drill?

    According to the Wikiwakiwoo, 'Tull preceded them by three years. I would chalk this whole "folk metal" trend up to convergent evolution. Not too many ways that flautists or fiddlers can become rawk stars.

    I believe that Thin Lizzy was motivated by Horslips' success to record their version of "Whisky in the Jar".

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  6. What is wrong with them? A retroactive case where they sue on the grounds that although Ian Anderson thought it up first he copied them from the past!!!

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