I’m surprised he didn’t have a marching band or something.
Ever hospitable, Self-Absorbed Boomer, has been waiting patiently for his 10,000th visitor. Well, the day has arrived and SAB wants to reward this good person with something very special.
SAB is run by the multi-faceted Claude Scales. The sub-head of his blog reads: Take back this pudding. It has no theme." (Attributed to Winston Churchill). "[A] delightfully named blog" (Sewell Chan, New York Times). Taxing your attention span for over two years.
From what I can discern, SAB blogger, Claude Scales, is a lit professor lawyer with a passion for sports cars, great music, baseball, college football, literature, ships, the sea, trains, astronomy, paleontology and Brooklyn. He also writes for the Brooklyn Heights Blog. All around, he’s a delightful blogger.
Visitor number 10,000 is from Bexley, Kent, England.
You visited my blog at about 9:30 p.m. your time on 26 November. Your ISP is NTL Internet, your OS is Windows XP, and you browse with Internet Explorer 7.0. To claim your prize (a CD of vintage American R&B), please send me your snail-mail address either by comment to this post, or by e-mail (use the link on my blog profile). Congratulations!
Bless your heart, Louise. Sometimes, I wish I was a lit prof. Actually, what I am is described by a quotation I used to think was from Shakespeare, but which is probably from some lesser-known writer like Sheridan or Wycherly:
“What am I, sir? I am a poet who has lost his muse. I am a lawyer; a poor scribbler who has twisted his art to suit a merchant’s purpose.”
Of course, I don’t always feel that way (see my post on S-AB dated November 13).
To the list of my passions, you can add ships and the sea, trains, astronomy and paleontology.