Weekend

[beige_alert]

The grand opening of the Milwaukee Public Market was quite grand. The outdoor farmers’ market there has been open weekends since mid summer, and now the building has been completed and the indoor shops are open. On Saturday the place was packed.

The Saturday night filk at Barisha’s was fun, as usual. It was a good night for minimally-rehearsed new material. I’d found out about aryana_filker‘s song The Willow from allisona’s LJ just a day before, but since I’m already familiar with the tune from all the parodies of it I sing I was able to introduce it to the Milwaukee group. They liked it a lot. They were probably glad I didn’t use Kanef’s crapping geese lyrics, or my every-shipwreck-song-ever-all-rolled-into-one-horrible-mass version. anach wasn’t present to provide death, death, and more death, but Barisha said that I partly filled that gap with Warren Zevon’s Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner. Joe really liked that.

Sunday was a good day for riding a bicycle with trailer to the organic foods co-op. Not that you, whoever you are, necessarily should have traveled to Milwaukee from Illinois or Winnipeg or wherever just to ride around with a trailer full of soy milk. But it was a nice day.

Comments

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I'd like to have been at the filk, but one week before OVFF is really bad, and not getting reminded until just a few days before the event meant that I'd already told people to expect me at EFRC on Sunday. I need a teleporter, darn it.

btw, 'vacuum pumps in the lab' sounds like a better-than-average name for a band...

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

Then the Halloween party is the week after OVFF, then last I heard there was another Milwaukee-area filk the week after that, then Windycon the next weekend.

Speaking of vacuum, "molecular flow" would be a fine band name.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I have a conflict Oct. 29. And the "no missing two weekends in a row at EFRC without a really solid good reason" rule precludes going to Milwaukee the week before Windy.