Blogulation

You know how you “know” people on the internet? You know only a bit about them that they choose to share. As a filker, I know some people that all I know about them is that they’re filkers, too, or at least they write songs.

Anyway, this matters because I wrote a song. It’s what I do. I cannot help it, nor do I really want to. Anyway, it’s about baseball, which comes as no surprise to anyone reading this blog. This song is not one I’ve published yet so there’s no link. And because of that, I’m going to be a bit vague as to what it’s about. Especially since that’s not pertinent.

What matters here is that I showed it to someone who is familiar with the work I’m parodying. And he didn’t think it scanned well. Okay, I can accept that. I tried to do something that, I dunno, could be sung to the karaoke version of the song.

But I showed it to one of my music friends who is also somewhat familiar with the original piece and he really liked it and said that his only problem was I had “too many” words … what he calls “optional” words that could be left out and assumed. The two opinions don’t quite fit together. I have a case of trying to do contradictory things and I’m not sure how I’ll resolve it. I think, if I can, I’ll get into a discussion of feet and meters with my friend who isn’t satisfied with the scansion.

I did publish a baseball shanty. It’s here. It’s really about Roy but I don’t want to be the one saying the things that I say.