August 10th, 2010
A brief hiatus from our story of high school band guts and glory, in which our hero sacrifices himself for science to become the Jane Goodall of the geek/nerd kingdom, if only for four days. Listen to the podcast using the link at the bottom of this post.
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Theme music: “This Year” by The Mountain Goats
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July 18th, 2010
In Part 3 of this story, we follow our hero back into the murky recesses of the school band farm team system, where his fate is about to be decided without his knowledge, as is the wont of fates.
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Theme music: “This Year” by The Mountain Goats
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July 13th, 2010
In Part 2 of this story, our hero finds marching band as a secure, if only seasonal, safe haven in the social storms of high school. His contentment only lasts until he hears of a further Promised Land just over the horizon. It’s a story of how a marching band geek became a rock star, if only for one brief but happy moment.
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Theme music: “This Year” by The Mountain Goats
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July 2nd, 2010
In Part 1 of this story, a chance mention of a rock band to a friend opens the door to a memory of my 15 minutes of fame. It’s a story of how a marching band geek became a rock star, if only for one brief but happy moment.
Listen to the podcast using the player below, or use the link provided to download it to your computer. you can subscribe to The League of Inveterate Poets Podcast on iTunes by clicking here. If you like what you’re hearing, please leave a rating and review on iTunes. Thanks! (It may be 24 hours or more after this post was published before this episode shows up in iTunes.)
Theme music: “This Year” by The Mountain Goats
Other music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for