| From: | Doctor Doom <jcha@******.NET> |
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| Subject: | ShadowManiacs Origins |
| Date: | Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:26:40 -0500 |
> > >[ scribed after "ShadowManiacs" when an impetuous Hayden threw
down the
> > >guantlet, challenging (albeit jokingly) me to transform "American
Pie"
> Yep, several people took up the challenge... After Hayden did Shadowmaniacs,
> I did an off-hand post saying "Can you do American Pie, too?". He laughed,
> and offered it up for general consumption. Several people put up their
> attempts, and the Doc's was the best.
ShadowManiacs' origins lie with my own hand. The verse, in its primordial
form, was titled "FASA Maniacs" yet I elected upon the evident alteration
this in light of Hayden's rather insightful observation that a more
meticulous characterization of the host collected in this virtual milieu
would be that they are enthusiasts of ShadowRun rather than of the company
which produces such per se.
Following said modifications, Hayden praised the product of my labors,
then inquired as to whether or not the spirit of the Muse was sufficient
to vouchsafe unto us an similarly apropos transmogrification of "American
Pie."
J. D. Falk proffered for public pondering an incomplete first verse,
/sans/ chorus. I cannot recollect rightly as to whe'er or not there were
other entrants into this impromptu match to modify modern madrigals, but
my efforts were, I recollect, the only complete version.
Of course, Hayden, in his own inestimable style, wondered aloud as to
whether a similar treatment of the "Ballad of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
were possible. If in that time I did not THWAP him soundly, I certainly
should have essayed to do so.
-- Doctor Doom
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