[Vision2020] Ren Fair...

[Mark Solomon]

You know, when you start making concessions for the sake of 
advertising/marketing to the general public such as substituting 
spinach pie for spanikopita, you've already launched off the slippery 
slope of mediocrity so the heck with spelling. By the way, the 
"spinich" pie was my favorite bite of many at the Fair. Word is Radio 
Free Moscow: KRFP 92.5 FM raised @ $3,000 after expenses to keep 
progressive community radio on the air. Yeah!

Mark Solomon



At 12:14 PM -0700 5/2/05, joanopyr at earthlink.net wrote:
>Carl writes:
>
>"Of all the Renaissance Fairs I've been to in Moscow, this one was one of
>the best.  And regarding the spelling of spinich (sic), what do you want,
>good grammar or good taste?"
>
>Good question, Brother Carl.  There was an excellent Chinese restaurant on
>High Street in Columbus, Ohio that sold a dish called "Chincken Broccoili."
>The spelling was atrocious, but the dish was great.  And besides . . .
>perhaps it was "spinich." Yeah, it was spinach mixed with hemp, which
>itches, and so they combined the two and . . .  no, that doesn't work
>because we're still missing a "t."  Ah, bugger.  As long as people bought
>it and ate it, who cares? 
>
>Okay, I care, but I hate to let on about it.  And, just for the record,
>Kai, I don't like Joan Baez anymore than you do.  A lovely soprano but her
>voice lacks soul.  (Sorry, Baez fans.  Please do not pelt me with rotten
>tomatoes.  This is just my opinion.)  For the same reason, I think Linda
>Ronstadt is the weak link on the Trio albums.  My favorite singers are k.
>d. lang, Eva Cassidy, and Dinah Washington -- and if you say anything foul
>about them, Kai Eiselein, I shall climb off my death bed and come nail your
>feet to your Latah Eagle desk.
>
>I have to go lie down now.  This coughing business has cost me at least
>three-quarters of a lung.  I hope none of you get this cold -- it's a
>biohazard.
>
>Joan
>
>PS: Thank you to Aaron Ament for covering for me last night.  Word has it
>that you were great.  Too great, in fact.  I'm afraid I'll have to
>assassinate you, else you might take my place . . .  
>
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