Note: slight "#mature" theme here. I'm not applying a CW - when I was a kid, this would have caused a 12-year-old to titter, but kids these days have read and seen far more explicit stuff a thousand times.

So I wanted to post something that wasn't politics, that isn't news or topical. Something amusing, maybe, and something I've not posted before. I happened to be reminded of the novel Singularity Sky by Charles Stross yesterday, which has as #inspiration for part of it the #Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

That reminded me of a Fringe experience of mine. So here it is. It won't make you rich, or smarter, or wiser, but maybe will give you a laugh.

My partner and I went to a tiny Fringe festival in a small town some years ago. It was basically a whistle stop between two cities in western Canada; I have no idea why the touring Fringe would even stop there, but it did, at least some of it.

One of the performances we saw was a version of MacBeth. It was highly #abbreviated, sort of a cross between a Reader's Digest condensed version, and what you would get if P.D.Q. Bach had an English cousin who did Shakespeare.

1/3

#Fringe #FringeFestival #MacBeth #Shakespeare #PDQBach #titter #bawdy

P.D.Q. Bach - Oratorio: "The Seasonings" (S. ½ tsp.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MOAtq91idk

#music #classicalMusic #humor #PDQBach

An excellent find, buried in the back room off Readers' Cove Used Books & Gallery in Deming, N.M. I did not even know this book existed: a 1976 hardcover publication of a “definitive biography of PDQ Bach” by Peter Schickele. It includes illustrations, sheet music, and a combination of satirical musical scholarship with lots of puns and dad jokes.

#books #bookstores #bookstodon #pdqbach

P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults

This album remains a comedy favorite. The old band nerd in me still finds it brilliant. #PDQBach

Here's PDQ Bach versus Beethoven.

#PDQBach #Beethoven #PeterSchickele #comedy #classicalmusic #ConcertCasting

https://youtu.be/MzXoVo16pTg?si=xVxbJ3cg_3rulyoo