Whelm; or, Things, Up with Which I Shall Not Keep

[merriehaskell]

Sometime after I ran away from home last week--which was as much a reaction to carrying on during spring break at a department of a large university that leans heavily on student assistants as though the students were not gone, as it was a reaction to finishing the latest draft of this Difficult Sophomore Novel--I realized that yes, I'm just going

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[cathshaffer]

Bringing you a blanket. Leading you gently off stage.

[merriehaskell]

Oh, god, am I covered in pig's blood?

[cathshaffer]

Oh, goodness. That is not what I was thinking at all. Unfortunately, the internet is failing to provide me with the proper cultural reference. I am thinking of a very famous pop performer who would get overwrought on stage. Either once or more than once there was a performance where the exhausted himself so much with the performance that someone appeared from backstage and put a blanket over his shoulders to lead him off. I thought this was Little Richard, but I can't find any reference to it. I believe it was a black pop singer of the 60's, but I now realize my knowledge of this is totally apocryphal and I may have been confusing people with it for decades without realizing it.

[merriehaskell]

...I was mostly kidding. :)

James Brown?

[cathshaffer]

Ah, it was James Brown! It was a cape, not a blanket. The "cape routine."