... especially, Woody Guthrie had actually written their songs. He had somehow imagined that "folk music" was, by definition, the body of authorless, undateable songs passed on from one village skald to another throughout history. Everything else was popular music in a folk idiom. Of course, there is music like that, or at least there used to be. European nations have a great deal of it.

First. Dropping Lazlo and Geddoe. friend remove seacaptainlazlo and trueltning_fury (Geddoe will be dropped officially after his farewell post) Second. Will be dropping Skald once I can get with Theresa to work out a scenario that won't leave Bernadette scarred for life. Third. I'm considering dropping the game entirely. Four posts in the entire month to date...I don't like the looks ...

... ). A madcap vandal crafts a small black ankh--a handstamp that can stamp a wax pad and at last plant a mark that sparks an ars magna (an abstract art that chards a phrasal anagram). A pagan skald chants a dark saga (a Mahabharata), as a papal cabal blackballs all annals and tracts, all dramas and psalms: Kant and Kafka, Marx and Marat. A Law as harsh as a fatwa bans all paragraphs that lack an A ...

... under chicken Good crust on bottom of pan now Lid back on and let chicken cook for a bit more Toss a couple slices of Great Harvest Nine Grain in the toaster Plate chicken and aromatics, notice good skald at bottom of pan Think, "Gosh, wish I had a bit of wine to deglaze. What else could I use?" (Keep in mind, have NEVER deglazed a damn thing. Ever.) Grab 1% milk from the fridge Figure, ...

... vintage of home, hearth, field and pasture. The mountain speaks in the mead. These are not abstractions. Poetry is the closest truth to be found. Practice speaking more poetically. You may not have the skald's gift, but you must speak from the heart. Where will your sumble be if you cannot speak the only speech Odin utters? Cultivate your poetic soul, your mind-and-heart mix, where world ...