Remember, O Thou Man Week 3: A Lenten Meditation, as sketched out by the Hand of the Artist In A Soul I Once Knew

Title kinda says it all. If you’ve read the sister post, you sort of know what I’m about to do. If not, I don’t really know how to explain it to you, so I’m just gonna launch in. Actually, I take that back. I think this one needs some more clarity. Although first: hi. How […]

Some of the Liveliest Folk Songs I Know–also, the situations I recommend them for

Hey guys hi. How are you all today? *waits for response* Um, yeah, I hope you’re doing well. I’m currently enmeshed in like a gazillion different disasters at once. Everything from legal tangle (no, I did not do anything stupid or illegal; other people did stupid and semi-illegal things and unfortunately I’m now dragged into […]

Fan Folktion: High Tragedy–feat. one of the saddest songs I know and some reflections on original sin therein

Good morrow, my merry friends. I hope all are well! ^don’t ask me why the super antiquated greeting. I have no rhyme or reason and that’s just the way it is. Okay so I’ve been promising you guys a fan folktion for a few weeks now. Here we have it. Without further ado, then, let […]

It’s Been A Year–Goodbye 2022, feat. some laughing over music and musing over life

Hullo hullo my friends! I hope you’re well! In important news (that you already know), it is now 2023. Like. How. Just what. *shakes self* Anyhow. I thought it’d be fun to do a bit of a wrap-up, of varying topics. Most notably music and generally life things. Tallyho! Music of the Year–Feat. Disclaimers That […]

In which I finally get to live out all my teenage writerly dreams–Know the Novel Part One

Okay, so as I’ve said before, I don’t do National Novel Writing Month anymore. (Also hi. How are you, ‘yis absolute beauts’, as Colm Mcguinness would say? I hope you’ve been doing splendidly. :)) So yeah, I don’t do NaNoWriMo anymore. But it–less the organization itself and more just the loveliness of writerly community and […]

A Collection of Folk Songs that Put Me in Mind of Autumn

Okay y’all, hear me out. Everybody seems to be doing fall book posts right now (I’m not complaining. I’ve been enjoying them quite a lot, in fact). But as we know by now, Grim is slightly obsessed with all things folk music and would much rather ramble about that than books. (I think I’ve written […]

Here’s A Health–Life of late, feat. rediscoveries, an anniversary, a ballad sing, and a festival

Hello hello my friends and how doth thee?! ^that is too enthusiastic a greeting for this blog for sure. Ahem. Good afternoon. Or good evening. Or should I say Guten Nacht… Um yeah so I’ve been up to stuff lately and I’m here to talk about it. That’s the intro. Tallyho. A Book I’ve Been […]

In which I rewrite a Revival cowboy tragedy to get another angle on White Squall–“Fan Folktion”

Or a better name if you guys have any ideas for one. but y’all I am psyched for this. In order to actually understand what I’m about to say/do hear, I recommend you go back and read my post on folk process. I’m going to be referencing it a lot. So it’s been a practice […]

Some Folk Music Characters that Took My Fancy

By the above title, my friends, I mean one of a few things: a) I was curious for more about these characters. b) I just really liked ’em c) I found them highly amusing or emotionally investing. This is kinda similar in some ways to that post I did a while back about morbid folk […]

Lullabies for the Weary–A Topic Very Dear to My Heart

Hello my friends! Let’s do another folk music post shall we? Erm. Sort of. Not all the songs on this list are what I would technically classify as folk music? But the vast majority of them are. Regardless, it’s a bit out of line from my usual music posts, so let me explain what I […]