Work, and a long weekend


Posted by Helena Cobban
July 8, 2003 10:27 PM EST | Link
Filed in Hometown Charlottesville , Writing and publishing

I'm sorry I haven't posted much here recently, but I've been writing up two or three storms. "Real" writing, that is... working on this humungous great redrafting project I'm working on, plus a Hayat column on Saturday, plus a CSM column yesterday.

Longtime readers of JWN may see some familiar arguments-- more elegantly stated-- in the CSM column which will come out Thursday. You can check their website for it then.

I did have a bit of time for some fun stuff over the long weekend, however. On July 4th, we went to a great evening party at our friends Chip and Betsy Tucker's place. Here's me going down the Slip 'n' Slide. (I've never been on one before. What a blast!)

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Just to prove that I do occasionally act with decorum, here's a picture of me a little later, upright, and with our friends Lynette and Otto Friesen:

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On Sunday evening, we got to go to a fabulous concert given here by John McCutcheon. John played many of his beautiful traditional instruments, sang some Woody Guthrie songs, and many, many of his own. He's a really engaging performer.

The new(-ish) song of his that I liked the best was "Ashcroft's Army". Here's the main gist of it:

    I wanna be in Ashcroft’s Army
    I wanna be a spy
    I wanna watch my neighbor’s doings
    Kiss your rights goodbye

We bought the self-produced CD that John was selling at the show, "Hail to the Chief", that contains that song. Y'all can get ahold of it through his fabulous website. What a guy!

By the way, it's the last verse of "Ashcroft's Army" that to my mind has the funniest words.




Comments
Comment from... Lorna Quandt, at July 10, 2003 11:54 AM:

I love the slip-n-slide picture!

Also, I agree--the Ashcroft's Army song is great. Everyone should hear it!

Comment from... Diana May, at July 12, 2003 02:14 AM:

Fancy NEVER having been on a slip-and-slide before....NOW you have lived!

Olivia has been so pleased to catch up with cousin Leila, your lovely daughter.

Enjoy Star Island; see you mid-August?

love, Diana

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