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I don't believe this....
Jan. 12th, 2010 04:00 pmThere was a due South fan convention (RCW 139) that ran for a couple of years in the late 90s during the last half of the series, and a couple years after. It revived in 2008, and is scheduled again for this year, August 13-15, 2010 in Toronto.
And I'd just been saying how I'd love to take a road trip to Canada.
Still, I think I'd rather go to a hockey game in Montreal or Toronto than not -- and August is smack in the middle of the off-season. =(
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Okay, ALSO, OMG -- there's this awesome band called Great Big Sea who does folk-rock, mostly covers of sea shanties. I heard one of their songs last year, The Mermaid, and absolutely DIED over it (I have to buy/dl more of their stuff). I JUST discovered that The Mermaid was originally written AND RECORDED by Shel Silverstein in 1965 and published in Playboy in 1966 -- which maybe gives you an idea of the (subtle) direction of this particular song...
Shel Silverstein!
How freaking awesome is that?!
And I'd just been saying how I'd love to take a road trip to Canada.
Still, I think I'd rather go to a hockey game in Montreal or Toronto than not -- and August is smack in the middle of the off-season. =(
--
Okay, ALSO, OMG -- there's this awesome band called Great Big Sea who does folk-rock, mostly covers of sea shanties. I heard one of their songs last year, The Mermaid, and absolutely DIED over it (I have to buy/dl more of their stuff). I JUST discovered that The Mermaid was originally written AND RECORDED by Shel Silverstein in 1965 and published in Playboy in 1966 -- which maybe gives you an idea of the (subtle) direction of this particular song...
Shel Silverstein!
How freaking awesome is that?!
