Where is Micca?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 04:28 PM

No Claire - not Seamus although I knew someone would suspect that. If you start riding the rails you can make it by New Year's, Claire. C'mon!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 03:26 PM

Micca, winging it to Maine might be a wiser plan than legging it, unless the North Atlantic has frozen over recently.

How I wish I could come, too, and give you a Yuletide hug with or without a blonde. (Hey, does Seamus count as a blonde?)

By the way, I volunteer for the California branche of that port collective...

Jeri, I hope you get that fiddle. Let me know if there's a collection plate; I'll contribute my mite! (Unfortunately, a mite is about what I've got in the coffers this Christmas.)

Love to the Maineiacs, who all seem to hang out on this thread for some peculiar reason.

Claire

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 02:33 PM

A Tim Phillips 5-stringed violin (an octave would be OK too... or anything else) in blonde wood? For MEEEE?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 01:52 PM

I am here in London, freezing my Butt off!!!!!, The Plan (note PLAN) is to spend Christmas in Old Keepers with MGAS and Richard and assorted other Initiates of Richards Port Drinking Club (don't ask!!)and then legging it to Maine on the 28th, for New Year with the Mainiacs!!!
I know not of Blondes or rumours of Blondes!!! (well thats my story and I'm sticking to it)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:37 PM

Where is Micca? Well, one place is on our new CD. Two of Micca's photographs were used in the graphics for the new CD. Both are photos he took of Susette and I in Gainsborough this year.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 12:28 PM

You have no idea, Becca. The drivers are all mildly insane and chatty. Jacqui and Micca always insist on sitting in the front seat. Need I say any more?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 10:37 AM

I would NOT want to be DRIVING that bus, though... :-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Dec 08 - 08:08 AM

Arrives Maine December 28. He, jacqui and the blonde will meet in Boston. I would love to be on that bus.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:19 PM

Not yet. He is also waxing ecstatic about turkey on Christmas with a bit of libation.

This is for New Years Eve.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:04 PM

Away in foreign parts again is he??? He has a date with a turkey in the Cottage on Christmas Day or has he had a better offer from someone more blonde than me?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:54 PM

I spokwe with him last night and he is more high up than low down.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:41 PM

I shall be seeing Micca on Tuesday and getting the lowdown from him then.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:20 AM

Of course it is not likely that he will leave the blonde behind. That I would notice before I let him walk out the door.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 09:19 AM

And each time he leaves we find an assortment of items - spare crystals, shoes, laundry, sleeping bags...eventually he will just have to move to Maine. Everything he owns will be here.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 08:38 AM

TruBrit -- I've told you a MILLION TIMES not to exaggerate!

(Hmmm...how many times? New Year's -- which I missed, alas, Portland festival, Getaway and subsequent trip to Maine and New Hampshire.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 08:19 AM

Must be the pure water and sweet ocean air that brings him back - LOL

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 02:38 AM

That wasn't a woman, that was a wolf & she had his wallet in her mouth & she was running circles around him.

It would be nice to see him again though even with his wolf.


When???

Barry

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Dec 08 - 12:22 AM

Okay so I can't resist having the 666th post....
SINSULL, I found his jacket under a pile of books last week, he suggests I post it to your house ... parcel to follow soon.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 09:53 PM

Blonde, huh? Well that would be a change.:-)

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 09:43 PM

Seriously????? The man seriously has waaaaaaaaay too much money -- he has been here at least ten times by my count this year........! But it would be lovely to see him.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Dec 08 - 11:09 AM

Word has it that Micca and at least one lady (a blonde) are winging there way to beautiful downtown Maine sometime soon. Could it be true?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:21 AM

What's it all about, Alphie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about
When you sort it out Alphie?
Are we meant to get more than we give????
Or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind Alphie...



Back to work.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:18 AM

What happens when this thread reaches 666 and it's Halloween?

More pix wanted!

RtS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:05 AM

Chance, I think the "Dayglo" setting on your vivid Imagination is set too high!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Fortunato
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:53 PM

Physically he's there in East London. But where is he spiritually?
I mean, where's he at as a person? Is he living a meaningful life. It's not enough to jump from continent to continent shacking up with female after female, I mean, what's it all about, Micca?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:32 AM

Can't happen too soon.
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Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 09:04 AM

No - I was watching Obama and Ghost Hunters. I wouldn't have answered. LOL
This thread is getting too long. We will have to start another when you go missing again.
M

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Micca
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 08:55 AM

Comfortably seated at my computer at home listening to Verdi(Triumphal March from Aida) and vieweing Dani's pix from the Getaway (surprisingly appropriate musically) I will PM my number, Sins, I KNEW I shoulda called last night for some reason!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 08:32 AM

He was at Liz and Manitas' place at the weekend.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 07:51 AM

Anyone know where he is, for real? I Pm'd him on Tuesday but haven't heard back. My phone book has gone walkies or I would call him.

YOO HOOOOOO
MICCA?????

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Oct 08 - 08:18 AM

He arrived safely home and is off to work. Hi Ho. He does leave an empty space, KT.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Oct 08 - 03:38 AM

For pity's sake, don't label him care of me, I've just cleaned the carpets!

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,KT, visiting NY
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 11:36 PM

Hey Mary, for one of his stature, he leaves quite an empty place when he leaves, doesn't he?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 09:00 PM

I put him on the bus to Boston. Micca was looking forward to the VIP lounge at Delta Airlines, Boston. He should be mid-air now. I. as the old song says, will put his little shoes away.
Yeah - he left them behind.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 01:04 PM

Tink - I've PMd you the address.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Tinker
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 12:58 PM

Could you remind him I need his new address to post the jacket he left here. Bubba seems to have taken a liking to it, so I'll run it through the wash first.

Tinker

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 09:39 AM

Yes we do...lol

Micca is currently wandering around my house picking up bits and pieces of his life that are scattered around here. So far he has managed to retrieve the critical stuff - his camera, computer, glasses, etc.
Tomorrow I will find the rest and mail it off to him.
Shall I pin a sign to his jacket:
This is Micca. If found please return him to Liz the Squeak in London?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Oct 08 - 04:54 AM

Nah mate, he has nothing I want, just winding him up, as always. Many Americans never quite get this aspect of British humour.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 09:26 PM

Giok, I do believe you are jealous of our travelling Brit. I hope Jacqui is conscious - she's driving. She and I misbehaved badly at the Richard Thompson concert. It suddenly dawned on me that I was expecting Richard Farina - and he has been dead for forty years.
Sigh - all that angst and claptrap. It was pure torture.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:47 PM

His singing does that to me too, Jeri

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Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Jeri
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:36 PM

'On his way' ... ?! He's been there for hours. I came home early. My heat came on in the wee hours and my nose is stuffy, my throat's screwed up and my voice was fading. I also was falling asleep--don't know why. I don't have a virus though. The environment hates me. Micca was singing his heart out happily, but I think Jacqui was stoically holding on to consciousness with her teeth and fingernails.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:29 PM

Yup, tritium usually.
Never mind Mary, if ya gotta glow, ya gotta glow !

Hee hee


XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:16 PM

Me too, Linn. It has been almost two weeks and I am still pushing and pulling revolting crtap from my nose and throat.

Meantime, Micca (who is also sniffling) is on his way to the Press Room with Mrs. Morse.I am planted in front of the teli and computer with brain in neutral.

And who is responsible for the abundance of glow-in-the-dark religious icons, tiny penguins and teeny nuns taht are taking over my home? Where did the teeny tiny hand painted creche come from/ I am considering a new Year's bonfire with all that toxic plastic burning.

Are the glow in the dark ones radioactive?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 02:15 PM

Well, Linn won't be at The Press Room this afternoon. I'm still layed low and recovering from the Post-Getaway Crud and I wasn't even AT the Getaway! Must have picked it up at the soiree last weekend at the home of the Perle Mesta of Portland...

If I had any energy (which I haven't) I'd fantasize about shaking seven different kinds of snot out of you all -- which, considering this particular malady, might happen spontaneously.

Sorry, Alison! I was dead to the world the afternoon you and your beloved were here -- I DO look forward to meeting him someday when my head isn't full of large dry insects and my lungs and nasal passages aren't full of the above seven different varieties.

My primary manager was prescient enough yesterday to realize I'd need another day plus my Sunday day off to recover and be more or less healthy for next week and so booked someone else to cover for me today. However I just got a call from my OTHER manager (geez, this flitting between two optical shops is making me dizzy) saying she's sending the optech there home sick this afternoon -- could I possibly cover for her tomorrow? Uh uh -- not if she wants me there on Monday, which is HER day off.

Ah well, this too will pass.

I think this is the third, possibly the fourth, Press Room Shanty Sing I've missed in the past five years since it started.

Micca, take care of yourself! (Everybody else, too!)

Linn

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Cats
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 11:03 AM

But this year he isn't trying to find a cape for me!!!

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:44 AM

I told Mary - if there is one thing worse than teenage angst it's mid-life crisis angst. Too many twiddly guitar bits, showing off his expertise and the songs were more rock than folk for me. Very disappointing.

As Mary said, the young lady who preceded him was excellent, an accomplished singer and musician. I'll be looking to get hold of her CD.

The real before the concert, chez TRUBRIT's, was excellent. Tom is a real gem who seems to be able to feed large numbers of people with no fuss whatsoever. I guess that, like the swan, all the effort goes on below the surface, but the result is always a meal that attracts the chosen like moths to a flame. Even Kendall, who has not been well this past two weeks, made the effort to come over for the meal.

Today it's the Press Room with Micca and, possibly, Mary, if she's out of bed and fit to go in time.

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:27 AM

Can't they just keep him?

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:01 AM

to my left Micca sound asleep.

There's a surprise.... he's fallen asleep in the Royal Albert Hall you know!

Just to make sure, you're not back in the UK until Monday 20th? Having difficulty moving the bodies...

LTS

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 04:54 AM

I'm with you re Richard Thompson, Sins. I find his stuff too loud, too self indulgent, and totally unlovable.
He may have started off in folk music, but he's gone a long way down the road that leads to rock music.

XG

Subject: RE: Where is Micca?????
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 12:41 AM

Just back from a Richard Thompson concert. Some loved it; some hated it. I thought I had died and gone to hell. Jacqui got the giggles...and I helped. We left halfway through but the rest of the crowd - Micca, Tom and Deborah, Tami and Jason stayed and enjoyed it. It looked to me like Peter Souza doing Elvis. Shenandoah was painfully priceless. "Shenando-YIP!
Not sure who I confused him with - not a folk singer. To my left was Jacqui yawning loudly; to my left Micca sound asleep. I left. I'd have gone home but I was everyone's ride.
BUT... the young fiddler who warmed up the crowd was very good. Bought her CD, Promised to send her a link to Mudcat and the Digitrad.
She introduced "The Maid On The Shore" as collected in Maine. In person, she said it was a version found in Maine. Bright, talented lady. I thoroughly enjoyed her short set.
Micca is off to brush his teeth and then to bed. He has been warned - Saturday I sleep until I wake up. No noise; no questions.
Goodnight.