Birthday remembered

GMLc is just... well... um... wow... flabbergasted by the lovely ode to its birth, life and muddiness below. What light in yonder fine mind breaks? It is Conover, son of an Irish banshee and a Celtic faerie, bespeaking us his poetical delights from the ancient rocks and bogs of the Lowcountry. We're so flattered... gush, blush...  Birthday consisted of a party on the Wando River that wasn't for us but was conveniently scheduled right on June 2, beer, cheese, pork, conversation, friends, music,  "The Rite of Spring" under the Angel Oak (see Spoletoblog if you really care), Pad Thai, 'nother party (family), cake, ice cream, presents (that included a Cowboy Chocolate Bar, Made Out West in Missoula, Mont.) Famille GMLc makes a big deal out of birthdays and always has. The cake/etc. part sometimes takes a whole day on the beach, and GMLc usually makes other b'day stuff last, oh, about a week.
 
OK, that's enough of that. Today's column makes fun of 666 conspiracy theorists. It's at the mothership, where you will also find a good story about Goat Island, home of several friends of ours with, um, independent streaks.

Back when GMLc was MORE of a group project, that is, when several adventure-seekers took turns writing it instead of just this one poor slob, with vacation fill-ins and the inspiration of the Conover the Bard... we had an annual Spokus Contest.

Spokus = Spoleto haikus. The ancient, Japannese 17-syllable verse form (with three lines of five, seven and five syllables, respectively) is a particular challenge for the Spoloto Festival, because, really, who can put Spoleto into words? Some examples from Spokus past (Note, we didn't say they were good haiku.) Please feel free to write your own Spokus and send them in a comment below.

By GMLc staff:

Chamber Music at
Eleven, martinis at
One, life is just great

Gonna see ballet
Yes, it is at 3 p.m.
But I called in sick

Baryshnikov, wow
That name takes four syllables
Makes Spoku easy

Morris Isle Lighthouse
On Off On Off On Off On
Off On Off On Off

Gin Vermouth Olives
Pate on tasty toast points
Have you seen Nigel?

And, submitted by Ted Soderlund of Pitt Street:

 

Hey, GMLc
How many events do you do?
Only those for free?

Comments

[Daniel]

To really appreciate that lighthouse spoku, you have to remember that some years back one of the visual arts offerings was someone who put lights on the outside of the structure and then turned them off and on. Much was made of this, but I think our spoku writer got the gist of it.

And for my money, the "Have you seen Nigel" spoku IS Spoleto.

Hey Ted Soderlund
Paying for Spoleto stuff
would hurt our beer fund.

[bellascribe]

Hey! Happy belated birthday, GMLc!