A Vulgar Blog
Hopefully, vaguely regular stand-up comedy musings.
I began my folklore and stand-up inquiry when I first heard of the African-American toast tradition (Deep Down in the Jungle, natch) and thought "That's what Rudy Ray Moore does, n'est-ce pas?" A lot of changes since then but you always remember your first.
Enjoy, you magnificent bastards.
Checking the list price for someone asking about it (so NOT pathetically self-googling, but constructively self-googling myself), I see that as of October 29 Amazon lists A Vulgar Art as available for order, not just pre-order. So buy it.
But folkies, it'll be at AFS in Santa Fe at the launch on Wednesday (Nov. 5) with all sorts of AFS discounts, and maybe signatures.
Author's copies are here, half an hour before I leave for Toronto and Santa Fe.
A new chapter by Jodi McDavid and I, available as a full preview on Google Books. But buy it anyways, you horrible people. It's on the PBS/CBC show Super Why! and its use of fairy tales and other traditional narrative.
There'll be a Wayne State University Press reception at the American Folklore Society meeting in Santa Fe. Maybe see folks there?
I was on CBC Atlantic's Maritime Noon call-in show on Tuesday, talking about superstitions and old wives tales.
Absorb the mellifluousness of my voice, mortals, here.
