Yasgur’s Farm: The wet spring weather is complicating the search committee’s intense effort to find a venue for this year’s Literary Faire, sources say. In a blog post Chaire of the Faire Prudentia Chalfont Smythe had this to say: “Our preferred site, a two hundred acre expanse, is a sea of mud. To our dismay we found a large group or gaggle of hippos inside a crop circle. Mysteriously the creatures feigned indifference upon my arrival in a late model Range Rover. The frustrating part for me is we have a marvelous opportunity to have a sensible Faire this year.”
Critical Path: Prudentia continues: “One simply cannot enjoy literature in the company of a hippopotamus. As a field experiment I dispatched DCI Borchardt to traffic amongst the creatures whilst reading aloud from last year’s victorious manuscript ( HER LYRICAL POETRY). One of the hippos yawned! Another wallowed in the mire. I think the time to hesitate is through.”
Portable Hair Dryers Deployed: Prudentia writes: “We’ve arranged hair dryers around the crop circle where I envision a great dais or stage will be erected.”
Her blog post is interrupted by a jet fighter breaking the sound barrier: “Unless Brenda of Goth is brought to heel I fear she will buzz the Faire in her accursed air superiority fighter.”
“A single Wellington Leg police Yugo is an inadequate response to Brenda’s high speed antics,” Prudentia writes to Druidical & Literary’s Op Ed Page. “I demand her MIG be confiscated. I demand that the roving hippos be removed from Yasgur’s Farm. If the Literary Faire is a fiasco, as I fear, it is on your heads.”
TTFN, Prudentia Chalfont-Smythe, Chaire of the Faire.