Sorry—he left his compassion in his other soul. from Jun 25, 2020 6/25/20 by Courtney T. Edison and WFMU Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/108791509 Episode: http://podcast.wfmu.org/kdb/mp3jump2010.mp3/0:8:6/0/OC/oc200625.mp3 The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor – “Doctors Love Camels” Fats Waller – “Love Me or Leave Me” Ruth Etting – “Ain’t Misbehavin'” Bert Shefter & Morton Gould – “157 West 57th Street” Baby Dodds Trio – “Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing” Jeremiah Wallace & “Stompy” Van Ronk – “Samson & Delilah” Elizabeth Welch – “Solomon” Flip the Frog – “Cuckoo Murder Case” Walter Roland – “Piano Stomp” The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers Orch. – “Charlie Two-Step” Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke – “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Sophie Tucker – “I Ain’t Taking Orders from No One” The Brox Sisters – “Kentucky’s Way of Sayin’ Good Mornin'” Ted Steele and His Novatones – “Solitude” The Old Codger Show Proud Sponsor – “Ralston Breakfast Cereal” Fabian André & His Orchestra – “A Windy Day on the Outer Drive” http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/94071

Swamp walk a little earlier this morning, trying to beat the heat and see more critters. I lucked into this little hard shelled turtle who wandered pretty far from the water’s edge. A few squirrels and smaller birds, but maybe I should head out earlier to spot frogs and the other beasties before it cracks the 80s. I tend to avoid the area where other folks gather based on where waste can be found. If there is a plastic bag or an aluminum can, I usually assume neighborhood kids are using it as a hangout. I generally prefer the quadruped and birds to humans out in the swamp.

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Swampwalk today, freaking hot outside. @maximillian_deersteak told me not to come back with fewer than 4 animal pictures. I was too overheated and slow to catch too much, but panda the black and white cat obliged, as did a lego bigfoot and a lego fly man when I got to the edge of the water. No frogs, toads or squirrels in easy sight, birds too fast or behind foliage. I saw a few motorcycle enthusiasts on the porch of a house and a some hard of hearing kids on bikes, with mom behind hollering at one to put “*both* hearing aids in before you go!” I didn’t feel right photographing humans without consent, especially kids. Temperature was 84F in theory, but was feeling like a walk through a soupy, swampy, hot mist of green. I should have brought a swamp thing or bog-nar figure, come to think of it.

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Random Scotto factoid:

My melee weapon of preference in a fantasy setting is has almost always boiled down to a one-handed axe or cleaver first, hammer or mallet next, then a pick or some sort of pointed short spear.

Swords are near the end of my list.

Not only are they great multifunctional tools but they are also (to my imagination) more readily available if you don’t have something handy.

Being a fan of dwarves as a fantasy humanoid character didn’t hurt either.

I think I originally leaned into Dwarf stuff was the nice opposite number to Elves, and the special abilities like seeing in the dark, high constitution and innate mapping senses made them pretty handy for dungeon crawling.