Thursday, June 22, 2006

URL's for Kevvy


I was looking at your post a few months back about extreme marathons, and I remembered reading about this one:

http://www.great-wall-marathon.com/

Also, links about the virtuoso banjo player Bela Fleck:

http://www.belafleck.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Fleck

http://www.flecktones.com/welcome.asp

And, last but not least, a song by another banjo player. The song that his grandmother used to sing to him when he was just a little boy (or so he claims :P ):

Be Courteous (The Grandmother's Song)

Be courteous, kind, and forgiving
Be gentle and peaceful each day
Be warm and human and grateful
And have a good thing to say

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
Be witty and happy and wise
Be honest and love all your neighbors
Be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant

Be sure to stop at stop signs
And drive fifty-five miles an hour
Pick up hitchhikers foaming at the mouth
And when you get home get a master's degree in geology

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull and boring and omnipresent
Criticize things you don't know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed

(Ladies only) Never make love to Bigfoot
(Men only) Hello, my name is Bigfoot
(Everyone) Put a live chicken in your underwear
Go into a closet and suck eggs

- Steve Martin

1 comment:

iokevins said...

The Great Wall marathon looks awesome. I'm a bit nervous about the first bit on the wall itself because they have those subtle hints that say "very demanding course with exhausting ascents, steep descents and more than 3700 stone steps to conquer." Is that subtle? I give them credit for being up front about it hee hee.

Bela Fleck looks interesting. I'm off to dinner but I want to hear more. Do you have any albums? I think I asked you already but forgot.

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