A Fine Day
June 2, 2009
We boogied up to Salisbury to catch a movie this afternoon. As I have said before, we like to handle important business decisions by talking things over on the way up to the movie, thinking things over while we watch the movie and then coming to an agreement on how to proceed on the way home.
We had a lot to talk over this trip. Frailing Banjo Magazine, the Somerset S-6 launch and a new project that will have everybody buzzing when it hits the streets.
Anyway, we had a great time at the movies. Drag Me To Hell was a lot of ghoulish fun. Dear Old Dad says it’s the first time he has been scared at the movies since he was a kid going to see Hammer films at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia.
After the movie we stopped to look at cameras (both of my point-and-shoots are on the fritz), picked up some hoagies for dinner and stopped at a roadside stand for fresh strawberries. We even managed to work out plans for the business stuff.
This was a good day.
June 2, 2009 at 7:17 pm
The new project is Somerset Kazoos?
June 2, 2009 at 7:58 pm
I suspect that the “new project” is the release of the Somerset 5FD Banjo: a five-string banjo that folds down and fits into a laptop computer sized over-shoulder bag.
This is going to make the banjo a truly portable instrument that will be safe in plane travel, non-injurious to pregnant women on the same bus as a banjo player, and far cheaper to post to overseas purchasers.
What a breakthrough! Congratulations, Patrick and D-O-D.
June 2, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Perhaps a line of banjo related foodstuffs?
Banjo Beer: It will pluck you up then drop-thumb you down.
Frailing Frijoles: The banjo shaped beans that will hold a tooten-nanny in your innards!
Five String Pasta: Who needs six when five will fill you up. The perfect match for….
Somerset Sauce: A blend of shore grown tomatoes, soft shell crabs and fresh trapped marsh rabbit. It will have you singing the blues faster then lost women and cheap whiskey.
I can hardly wait.
-al
June 3, 2009 at 5:42 am
I happen to know that the new project is a cloning vat so multiple Patricks can work at the same time, allowing the long awaited completion of many ongoing projects (including the kazzoos)
June 3, 2009 at 7:32 am
I LOVE the idea of some sort of travel banjo similar to the GoldTone Tranjo!!! That would be awesome!
June 3, 2009 at 1:23 pm
If Pat is honouring his promise to make a banjo with digit magnets to pull fingers and thumbs to the right place even I might buy one!