An instructive joke for all occasions
17 Feb 2012 9:15pm GMT Two bulls were grazing at the bottom of the big pasture, when the farmer let a load of heifers in at the top gate. “Hey,” said the young bull to the old, “What do you say we run up there and fuck us a couple of heifers?” “Well,” said the old one, “You’re welcome to do that if you want to, but I plan on walking up there and fucking all of them”. I’ll leave any interpretation up to you.
Pretty Saro
29 Oct 2011 5:57am GMT Pretty Saro by pdcawley I’m a wee bit late writing this because it’s mostly about my summer trip to the Swannanoa Gathering at Warren Wilson College near Asheville, North Carolina. It just so happened that YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) was held in Asheville this year, the week before the gathering’s Traditional Song Week. Well, I’m a perl hacker. I sing traditional songs. My employer was paying for me to attend YAPC and were willing for me to extend my stay in...
References in Child of the Library
1 Sep 2011 9:45am GMT I sometimes think that I should have published the lyrics to Child of the Library with a bibliography. The references in the second verse are all obvious to me, but I’m a white middle class English boy who grew up around boats. My childhood reading and yours may not intersect all that much. So… The Walkers and the Blacketts Also known as the Swallows and Amazons. Swallows and Amazons is the first ‘big’ book that I can remember reading for myself. We were in Cornwall,...
The Further Adventures of Child of the LIbrary
31 Aug 2011 8:53am GMT Or… what I did this summer. Summer as been frantic. Mostly joyous, but frantic. I had talks accepted at both YAPC and OSCON. Because YAPC was in Asheville, and the Swannanoa Gathering Traditional Song Week fell the week after YAPC, that meant I flew out to Asheville for an intense fortnight of Perl community engagement followed by a week spent singing myself hoarse and being blown away by Sheila Kay Adams’s singing and her stories of mountain life and listening to future stars like...
A Child of the Library, revised
4 Apr 2011 5:46am GMT Here’s a revised version of A Child of the Library. Child Of The Library (Revised) by pdcawley Whenever I learn a new song, there’s a period of making it “mine”. This happens as I sing it out to different audiences and find out which bits work, which bits are hard to sing and all the other little details that you only find out when there’s a living, breathing, listening and (hopefully) singing audience in front of you. It turns out that the same things...