Super-last-minute possible plans! What's the driving like down there? I'm contemplating a crazy, crazy idea to come down for your bardic workshop tomorrow (Friday). It *is* tomorrow, right ( Read more... )

I know you guys do your bardic workshops about once a month, and I'm fairly certain I remember it being on Fridays. When are they, precisely?

Also, if I decide to come one of these months in the near future, would someone be able to provide CAT-FREE crash space?

I just posted up a new song to Home of the Pocket Bard, called The LAC Italy Trip 2005 Drinking Song. Which is more or less exactly what it is. I wrote it back in 2005, just after graduating with my B.A., when I was in Italy with a bunch of people from the Liberal Arts College at Concordia ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Just did some more updating to Home of the Pocket Bard. I've uploaded the last two Pennsic diaries (for 2003 and 2004). I've also posted two songs. The first, "I Passed the Devil's Pickup Truck," is a silly little song I wrote for LC a few years ago. The other, "For Grandma and Grandpa," was a 60th anniversary present for my ( Read more... )

I had some time yesterday to fulfill one of my Pennsic commitments, namely to write a poem in honour of Dione Sidhe's kitchen house, which was completed at this year's War. (To see a picture of the kitchen house, click hereI decided to go the "tell a story" route, though I chose to err on the side of fable rather than fact. I got the official stamp ( Read more... )

I've been doing some updating around Home of the Pocket Bard. Today I've uploaded six backlogged songs that I've written over the last few years. You'll find them at the master song list under "Period-esque Poems," "Teaching Poems," (both at the top) and "Songs for Friends and Family" (at the bottom).

Today's update includes the poem that won me ( Read more... )

I've hinted that I wrote a new song at Pennsic (indeed, when don't I write a new song at Pennsic?), and now it's finally uploaded in all its glory. It's called "The Rubber Duckies of Dione Sidhe," and because you're reading my LJ, you don't even need to go to the song's page on Home of the Pocket Bard to see it, either.

( The Rubber Duckies of Dione Sidhe )

It's that time again: time for more songs to magically find their way to Home of the Pocket Bard. Today features a half-dozen songs from my early days as a bard, all about a "pirate" ship I served aboard, The Lady Joane Glory. (Pirate is such a strong word, don't you think?)

Also today is a poem that's among my favourites, Ernst Takes a Student, ( Read more... )

This morning, I found myself trying to re-memorize a few of my classic pieces for Pennsic. Things I know, have spent much time memorizing, but have let slide in recent months and are a bit rusty. And I found myself taking advice from, of all places, Winnie the Pooh. Here's what he has to say about singing ( Read more... )

Just a reminder that the Heather Dale house concert is in only two days! Here's a repost of the announcement, in case you missed it ( Read more... )