Hey Quinzy friends and family. We are back in Winnipeg. At the moment we are in the, planning to start preparing for getting ready for shows, stage. The nature of this stage is lethargic to say the least, but it does possess a certain shimmery quality.
Other than that I would say that we are all happy with the results of our endeavour to Toronto. We made an album which is now in the mind-bendingly capable hands of Michael Phillip Wojewoda. We are bursting at the seems, literally (from excessive intake of beer and street meat), and figuratively (with excitement for you all to hear the album).
Now I guess that I have started to follow somewhat of a pattern but....
Enough about us.
How cool are ships. Now I'm not talking about new-fangled motorboats (you motorbotin' sonofa...), I'm talking about awesome old ships. Ships like Galleons, and Penteconters and Viking Longships. These things are so friggin manly. Powered by brute strength and the powerful winds of the sea. And don't even get me started on Pirates... Uh Oh, you got me started. What follows is a chilling excerpt from the song "Topsy Turvy, We all got Scurvy" from my upcoming musical "Aarrrrr! A Pirates Lament"
(as sung by Captain Phil "Penny Trousers" Dodd)
Carrots were never my thing.
And Apples don't quite have that ring
Then my liver spots started to siiiiiiiiing.
You've got scurvy!
gums are curvy
And they're bleeding all over the deck.
Visions blurry
Cuz' your eyes are sunken into your head
la la la la la la la laaa la la!!
(Sing the chorus to the tune of "I feel pretty". I think you'll be pleasantly surprised)
I smell a pirate themed album upcoming for quinzy.
Jason
So we're in the middle of the singin' the album, and I'd say it's comin' along real nice like.
For the most part we've been takin' it one song at a time. Ya know, hunkerin' down and singing all the parts for that particular song at once. This has worked well and is very rewarding as we can really see the shape the song is taking as we stand around and enthusiasticly pat each other on the back while smoking massive cigars and laughing uproriously.
But enough about us.
I have an important message for the people in the bagel industry.
If you're going to sell a product that clearly states 6 SLICED BAGELS on the side of it, those 6 bagels should probably be fully sliced. Not mostly or partially sliced, but FULLY SLICED (
you see, when you're mostly sliced you're still some unsliced).
It just bothers me when I pull out a bagel that claims to be sliced and I have to dirty up a perfectly good knife to cut the remaining third that is fully intact, or worse, rip it apart leaving something that looks more like a frat boys couch after spring break then a bagel.
Just as a little side note here. I'd like to mention that I am perfectly okay with slicing a fully unsliced bagel under the pretense that it is made fully aware to me by the bagel company that this is the task I will be faced with. In fact I consider myself quite the bagel slicer.
The basic point is this. Bagel guys, wherever you are, (I'd assume Montreal) don't lie to me. Our relationship needs to be based on total honesty. Just tell me right on the side of the plastic bag. I've even got a slogan for you.
MOSTLY SLICED BAGELS
"All the Bagel. 1/3 the slicing"
Just think about it
Talk to you later.
Sincerely
Jason "no seriously, I just wrote a blog about bagels" Pankratz
