Whispers from the Myth Teller

Don't forget the Empress Storytelling Fundraiser taking place on Thursday night at 8pm. Don't miss this show that features Eric Gauthier (a fantastic French teller) as well as Dylan and myself.



Because it's the Empress and the Egyptian theme, I'll be telling the Blue Hippoptamus story. I haven't picked the second story yet, but it'll depend on if we have a band player. If there's a fiddle player, I'll tell the Ti-Fleur story. If not, I might dig up on older story I haven't told recently. Or I might do my version of La Chasse Galerie.

In a related vein, Ms. DragonMoone asked me to perform at a fashion show she has planned in March. She wants to show a series of Cloak designs and would like me to telling a story that is cloak-related. I'll be going through my books to find something related, but I might have to adapt something.

And, I'll apparently be doing my little turn on the catwalk (on the catwalk, on the catwalk yeah). Ms. DragonMoone wants me to be a model to show off her new Cargo Kilt line.

Heh. That'll be different. I'm turning into a Hobbes of all Hats.

In the past week, I've been wearing my new kilt in public and getting mostly positive reviews. Most guys I pass on the street, in cars and on foot, have been giving me the thumbs up. Some guys have stopped me and asked where I got the kilt and how they are planning on getting one themselves. I need to get Tammy's business card and handing it out to the people who ask.

The only bad reactions have been from people who do not have an appreciation of Irish/Scottish culture. So far, I've been mocked by gangs of young black men. I try to explain that there's nothing more manly than wearing a man's kilt, but they haven't been buying it. Ah well.

My current kilt is a bit of a training kilt. I plan on getting another one, but in my family's tartan. In Irish culture, the tartans are assigned by county rather than by family. My family originated in Tipperary before coming to Canada.

Of course, a tartan kilt is a tad more expensive than a Cargo Kilt (Tammy's version of the Utilikilt). And of course, I'll find every excuse to wear it!