Had a nice quiet weekend here. The most exciting thing I did was watch the first season of “The Office” on DVD. (It’s almost a relief to find that it is as funny as people are saying it is.) Anyway, not much to report, but I did take some photographs.

I’ve once again updated the Monty Python Society website. This may mark my last major update as webmaster, although if any of you former members have photographs or things you’d like to share, please let me know. This update includes a new front page, photos from this year’s Mall Climb and Ides of October, the remaining two newsletters from this semester, and a couple of pages of write-up on the 1989 Ides, which may be the first and only time the event has ever taken place in October. The final newsletter is mostly the essay I reprinted here yesterday, but there’s other stuff in it, too, including pictures, hororscopes, a cut-and-paste cartoon, and, of course, the requisite naughty words.

Out of the blue on Saturday, even though I haven’t heard from him in about a year, Victor sent me a song. It’s one that I wrote sometime back in 2002, when Victor was still an active member of the Monty Python Society. (He switched campuses after that spring.) Circumstances prevented us from performing the song at our night of sketches that year like we’d originally planned, and I’ve always sort of regretted that. We perfomed a slightly different, midi’ed version of it earlier this year at a meeting, but it’s just not the same. I’m weirdly proud of the song; I think it’s equal parts disgusting and clever. (Its full title, for the wary, is “Diarrhea: A Love Song”.) So Victor’s e-mail came as a really pleasant surprise.

Frankly, I’m amazed that he remembered the music, but maybe I shouldn’t be. It’s music that existed in my head more than the page before Victor read it and mapped out some simple guitar chords. He knew what I was going for right away. Me, I’ve never even picked up a guitar before.

Give it a listen if you get a chance. Oh, on the off chance that some of you haven’t heard my other song…

Actually, I’ve written somewhere around seven or eight songs, but only three of them have been committed to music. Only these two, I think, are really any good.