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[beige_alert]

The February Milwaukee house filk has been rescheduled and is now on my birthday, the 19th. I get a filk on my birthday!

Our last Milwaukee filk, last weekend, was fun. We sort of had a theme running though the night of ‘songs we haven’t practiced recently,’ which worked surprisingly well. I used this opportunity to play Kevin Wald’s Banned From Aleph, which I’ve been waiting for an excuse to try to sing. Also, after Jason played yet another everyone-dies-song, I realized that I know at least one song with a death in it, even it it’s not really an ose song, Joel Polowin’s parody of The Lady, The Laddie. I am, as tigertoy is learning, most recently at the New Year party, always ready to follow “The Lady” with...something. The Laddie, The Goslings, or, worse, my own Wreck Of the Lady Fitzgerald.

The New Year’s Eve party was fun, too. We had a few people who were not familiar with filk listening in, and the goofy songs went over very well. I had a chance to try Dr. Jane’s “Battle with the Elements,” a song that I really ought to sing since I am a chemist.

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[barbarakitten-t.livejournal.com]

this sounds like so much fun!!!!!

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen "Banned From Aleph" before. (FYI, your link is busted, but I was able to find the real link inside of it.) I know enough math to actually get the first couple of jokes; I suspect a real mathemetician would find the later verses funnier than I do. It seems a little scansion-challenged, but amusing. Not of the same quality as Mr. Wald's most famous effort, "Heroine Barbarian".

New Year's Eve was nice. Wish you could have been at GaFilk, but I'm glad you had a good time up there.

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

(fixed the link---thanks!)

I think it is a bit scansion-challenged, and I don't claim to get all the jokes, though the last joke is of course a pun on Georg Cantor, who also worked on infinite sets, and the Beth-sets, which are like the Alephs, only, I don't know, different, I guess. Jason seemed to get enough of the jokes to appreciate it. My introduction was, "Who here is over-educated?" His reply: something like "I was, then I joined the military."

I don't think I've actually heard "Heroine Barbarian," but google finds the text. That's truly special. You have heard Wreck of the Lady Fitz, right?

I'd like to get to GaFilk someday, but it is a bit far from here. I want to go to FilkOntario someday, too. I will be at Capricon and, in the summer, Duckon.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I managed to walk right past the Cantor pun in the last verse. I assumed the Beth-sub-1 referred to some math I didn't know.

I trust the version of Heroine Barbarian you found included the footnotes. At one point, I had all of the lyrics memorized and I may have even tried to sing it in public once, but it should be sung by someone more Xena-like than I.

I believe I've heard The Wreck of the Lady Fitzgerald, and you dodged whatever I threw at you. You could refresh my memory, but then I'd have to throw something again and I might just hit you...