Comments on: Ch-ch-changes at the Watcher’s Council

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:22:04 +0000

Wolf was having technical difficulties, and should be back in full blogging mode very, very soon.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:11:16 +0000

bbbbbut…what’s happened to Wolf?

(ok – new blogs are welcome. A number of my “regulars” are either taking a hiatus or say they’re burned out and won’t be blogging any more now that the push of the election is over. I suspect they’ll be back, but for now, they’ve gone dark)

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:50:27 +0000

I was at Berkeley a decade later than you, CM, right after “Animal House” rampaged through the nation’s movie theaters. In my era, people took on the totemic names of Buffy and Thad. (I was not in a sorority, so am chagrined to admit that I’ve never had an animal name until I denoted myself as a Bookworm. Perhaps there’s something to be said for waiting.)

But I can assure you, CM, we will watch out for you.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:05:07 +0000

Book:

One day in 1969 on a hill in Berkeley, stoked by God-knows-what chemical compound, I took on the totemic name of “Elegant Freddie Weasel.”

It was kind of like the olden days when a Miwok with a name like “Egg Dropped from Crow’s Nest” might go out on a spirit journey and come back with his real name, “Rocky Mountain Oyster.”

My girlfriend at the time, who is now my wife, took on the name “Ethel Marmot.”

I’m telling you this because I want you to know how grateful I am that the Watcher’s Council, aka Watcher of Weasels, is looking out for me.