Some guy called Doug

eChristmas Medley | Douglas Hamilton eChristmas Medley by Douglas Hamilton, Comedy music from Frome, UK on ReverbNation

eChristmas Medley...totally forgot about this recording (from the early aughts, Wild Hog in the Woods, Madison). Funny how if you write techie humor, your songs go out of date (except as curiosities) and require version upgrades! www.reverbnation.com/douglashamil...

How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors   It’s not rocket surgery. First, get all your ducks on the same page. After all, you can’t make an omelette without breaking stride.   Be sure to watch what you write with a fine-tuned comb. Check and re-check until the cows turn blue. It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.   Don’t worry about opening up a whole hill of beans: you can always burn that bridge when you come to it, if you follow where I’m coming from.   Concentrate! Keep your door closed and your enemies closer. Finally, don’t take the moral high horse: if the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it. Brian Bilston

Today’s poem is called ‘How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors’.

Cartoon of septuagenarian hippie saying "Being 20 in the seventies was WAY more fun than being 70 in the twenties.

Cartoon showing king and advisor looking down on crowd from balcony: "You don't need to fight them...you just need to convince the pitchfork people that the torch people want to take away their pitchforks."

Check this out! www.youtube.com/live/JiVIX48...

It's excellent! Especially appreciated the full-harmony flourish on the word "on" in "the nights just carry on" You could have done it straight, but the extra notes make it much richer!

I'd love that! I immediately connected with your music...so good! Two things: on stage I would get so excited when the really good harmony parts were coming up. And...acapella makes it even more exciting. Moved back to the states a few years ago, really miss that band!

YouTube video by Kensington TV Stan Rogers sings "Northwest Passage (Excerpt from One Warm Line)

And this!! (OK, I'll quit now :-)

youtu.be/FIjFpwsXhuI?...

YouTube video by Kensington TV Stan Rogers intros & sings "Barrett's Privateers" in One Warm Line documentary

Just found this one...so good! So sad I didn't discover Stan Rodgers until after he's died

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Nl...

YouTube video by bytor21122112 Stan Rogers - Field Behind The Plow

SO MANY great songs. What a voice! Field Behind the Plow is one of my favourites...a perfect evocation of the farming life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=juTK...

Stan Rogers Guysborough County, located along the coast of Nova Scotia is a fascinating place. Home to the Mi’kmaq people for centuries, then to Black Loyalists who fled the United States during the Revolution…

Nov. 29, 1949:
Canadian singer-songwriter Stan Rogers was born in Hamilton. One of Canada's most celebrated folk musicians, his music has become iconic. He tragically died in a fire aboard Air Canada Flight 797 in 1983.

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Glad things are looking up! It's good to be in touch!!

Appalachia Live!, by Appalachia 15 track album

Thanks for the follow! Loving your music!! Vocal harmonies have a special place in my music-making. Love hearing it, love singin' it even more! Had the great pleasure to wing and play with these guys for several years, would love to get back to it itappalachiamusic.bandcamp.com/album/appalachia-live

I'm about an hour south of the cities, near Faribault

I've been away from filk for a decade. Not because I wasn't interested, it's just that life threw me a succession of curveballs. Used to to the UK Filk ocns when I lived across the pond. Thanks for the pointer to MarsCon..."con-in-a-con Comedy Music Track" sounds perfect!!

Enjoying your music...thanks for hte follow! So, are you in Iowa these days? If so I'm just up the road. From a fellow songwriter/bass player/multi-instrumentalist...

I'm just wondering how you spotted me on Bluesky and made the connection? I've only been here less than a week, and I'm still pretty baffled, though liking what I see

Hi Michelle, so good to hear from you! Hope things are going well. Saw John this summer...he came to visit Minnesota. Wonder if you're still in contact.

And yes, I too am outraged. Kind of...beyond outrage, just numb

“Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.

(Their) payroll taxes (are)dedicated to funding programs that these workers are barred from accessing”

Excellent (and sobering)…

I know this NEVER WORKS but maybe Bluesky is different... Just uhhhhh gonna put this here incase...you know, you meme enjoyers also wanna check out my radical Christmas song bsky.app/profile/foss...

Just discovering your music as part of getting acclimated to Bluesky. So much! I especially liked Roses in the Rocks...definitely need to learn that one!

Grandmother reading a book to two of her granddaughters. Headline="Give thanks this day!"

Here's a Thanksgiving song I wrote many years ago when these little girls' mother (my daughter) was just a child.

drive.google.com/file/d/1T-9i...

What has changed?
Not much.
Sadly.

YouTube video by someguycalleddoug Reptile Brain

My song about the overwhelming pace of the Infosphere. Wrote this 15 years ago, and it's only gotten WAY WORSE!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXyD...

Yep...exactly 😱