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'96 was My Year in New York City - not exactly my favorite year, but one rich in stories and characters and, ahem, *growth experiences.*

Funny you should mention Dillon Bustin. He got his start in folk music and folklore studies here in Bloomington, IN and I was vaguely acquainted with him way back when. Bought his one album, The Dillon Bustin Almanac. The song you quote was on it. Also a beautiful a cappella madrigal about gardening, a swinging little piece about the delights of good wood in a good wood stove, and other songs about real people and real things.

Dillon's great gift to Bloomington was his discovery and promotion of the home-grown working-man musician, Lotus Dickey, who composed his own songs, a vast library of complex ditties full of wordplay, affection, reverence and ragtime rhythms. After Lotus' death, a folk music festival grew into a vibrant world music festival bearing his name: Lotus.

Thank you, Dillon Bustin, for writing good songs and finding good songs.

Calluna@19:

The kind of orrery you describe exists in literature, in John Crowley's "Little, Big." So big and detailed, you can sit in it and watch the planets move.

Now this is what I call high snark. :)

Amazing. I'm surfing around late on Sept 25, and start googling some old-friend names just for the hell of it, wind up dredging up names of people I knew in the Indiana University Science Fiction Club 30-odd years ago. I knew Mike Ford when Ben Bova bought his first published short story. I have enjoyed his novels even as I drifted away from SF/Fantasy onto my own personal track. So I do the obvious, find Mike's Wikipedia entry, and ... WTF??

I've spent the past two hours going through the thread, and following other links. Amazing.

Mike made me laugh loudly 30 years ago. His novels made me laugh harder than any other SF or Fantasy work. Evidently his audience grew vast, all of them laughing.

And amazed.

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