spectator to old-time fiddler: "Say, can you read sheet music?"

Old-timer: "Naw, not as much as affects mah fiddlin'...."

Yeah, that's what they say to us old-time banjo players too. Although, in reality, a certain amount of understanding of music theory can be helpful. I learned to play harmonica completely by ear, and of course, practice, practice, practice. The banjo playing though will come along better with some music theory.

I have a new favorite old time fiddle player. Her name is Ashley Hull. She learned from one of the best old-time fiddle players, Bob Holt. She plays her fiddle against her chin. So, please, don't tell me or attempt to think you are educating me on old-time fiddle playing. Frankly, I resent your lack of respect and you assumption that you know more about it than I do.

On the jig thing, perhaps specifically you are correct. In the real world of language, though, you are nitpicking to the utmost degree.

So now the next time one of those trolls say that all of us Greenwald liberals walk in lockstep, you and I can point to this post and prove them to be full of shit...;o)

Old-timeys tend to play it down like that. You won't find the chin-rests (at least the ones underneath) on an old-timer's fiddle.--Arne

You weren't very observant watching that video. Watch it again and you will see that even though he isn't using his chin-rest it is indeed attached to his fiddle.

Arne,

A rebuttal for you on the Preordering thread about old-time music, and fiddlers specifically.

I see Glen Reynolds' obsession with you and all things manly continues unabated.

I think Glenn Reynolds and Instapundit are one in the same. Aren't they?

but I can't post it here. At least not now. Maybe later.

-- Karen M

What? Do we have to wait for the kiddies to go to bed or something?

Will any of those CEO's even consider the possibility that improving their product might save their asses rather than blaming their failure on the internet? Maybe if they would put out any real journalism, much less great journalism, they'd have a shot at succeeding and staying afloat.

Thanks for tip. Will have to look her up.

Here is a youtube of her. I sent away for her small-studio made cd. I like the idea of supporting a young up-and-comer. She seems to be a real sweetheart, along with being a dedicated fiddler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1HJB70ilUg

However, until Glenn gives his view, I doubt the local cabal (the ones who live here 24/7) will take a position.-Bucky1

You just, once again, proved that I was correct in calling you a liar when you denied having made a statement exactly like the one I just quoted you on. That is why I will have nothing to do with you. You try to belittle the posters here, and then you lie about having attempted to do that. Too much shit for me to put up with.

"you little boy."-bucky1

I don't get your attempts at insults. You don't make sense to me.

but I just read Glenn, I do not worship. I doubt such a guy as Glenn would even want people to do so.

-- bucky1

There is no connection between you choosing a candidate, any of us choosing a candidate, and who Glenn might or might not choose as a candidate. You keep making the same point over and over again that we are waiting for Glenn before we make a choice. Then I point that out to you and about you and you call me a liar (and a little boy) for pointing that out. The exasperation factor is off the charts.

If only you mother could see you now in all your glory, eh?-Bucky1

Another one of those weird insults you come up with. Truly strange.

So prove you can think, and give even even tentative support to someone. Here in public with your buddies looking on. You can withdraw support tomorrow and say it was a joke.

Just prove that you can do it.

-- bucky1

Karen M has proven time and again that she "can think".

You are a dog with a bone. I have never seen anything quite like this insistence you have for people to declare a candidate just because you think they should to prove something or another.

Freaky, I tell you. Freaky.

In the last, oh, maybe about a year or so, I've come to suspect that Digby was a female. Before that I kind of assumed that she was male. No good reason for that, really. Maybe her name, Digby, has a kind of male sound about it to me. Maybe the picture at Hullabaloo with the guy yelling with his hands cupped to his mouth has a male look about it to me. Maybe, as much as I try not to be, I'm still ignorantly and unreasonably effected by the society I am a part of. You know? The one that doesn't give woman their due?

At any rate, if I were a woman, I would not be shy about claiming Digby as 'one of us' today. I know that in the scheme of things that doesn't really matter. But, let's face it, it kind of does. Doesn't it?

I'm proud of Digby, and I'm just a little bit proud of myself for having had the good sense to have been clicking onto her blog these past few years.

Too bad there is no way to harness the energy contained in all this bloviating.

There was a time when GWB had an approval rating of 75% or so. He has now been at or near the 20's for about a year. Maybe the "bloviating" was "harnessed" after all and the "energy" spread throughout the United States, and the world, and helped to expose GWB for the dangerous failure that he is?