apparent that there
was a lot going on but
he wasn’t sure what
Not since the student riots in Chicago that took place while Brown Dog was a very casual student at the Moody Bible Institute had he seen this many people going to and fro.
It was apparent that there was a lot going on but he wasn’t sure what.
Another big crowd in his life had been the Ishpeming Bugle and Firefighters Convention a few years before but there the purpose had been quite specific.
Brown Dog had stood in the garage parking lot waiting for the head gasket of his van to be replaced and had watched several hundred buglers take turns doing their best.
This turned out to be more than enough bugling to last a lifetime.
From the novella, “Westwood Ho” originally published in Julip by Jim Harrison, Grove Press, 2000.
Westwood Ho is a Brown Dog story.
One of five Brown Dog novella’s written by Jim Harrison.
Against my better judgement I am listening to the complete Brown Dog collection from Audible on my drive to work.
I don’t mind … so much … how the reader uses affectations for different characters.
Though the number of fake Native American accent’s in the storyline does push the reader and my tolerance to the limit.
Why can’t they just read the book?
But no, its not the accents or the phraseology that gets me.
It’s the lack of research they put into to pronounce place names in Michigan’s Upper Pennisula that drives me first to laugh and then shake my head in disbelief.
MUN-Sing?
MUN-Sing for Munising?
Oh come on.
es CANA ba for Escanaba.
Ojibwa and Anishinaabe get so mangled I couldn’t figure out what the reader was saying.
Menominee, Ishpeming and Negaunee all get the treatment.
Oh come on.
The feller got a bye on Sault Ste. Marie as Mr. Harrison refers to it as just ‘The Soo’ but I was ready for Salt Saint Mary’s.
Still the sentiment from today as I drove to work emerged from the words.
The focus being It was apparent that there was a lot going on but he wasn’t sure what.
I read the papers.
I watch the news.
It was apparent that there is a lot going on but I am not sure what.
Is it New Year’s yet?
PS … a couple of day later it happened … Salt Saint May’s …. 🤷🏽♂️
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