Bragging Rights

[hsapiens]

The Better Half has a band, the Flying Fish Sailors, and they recently won the Houston Press 2007 Award for "Best Pirate Band." I don't know how much competition there is for the award, and I kind of suspect that someone made up the category in order to give the guys an award but hey, who's complaining? An accolade is an accolade. They've collected many honors in their two decades as a band but another one is always welcome.

On a related note, band member mrkamikaze has vintage, out of print, live recordings of blast from the past events: 1995's Blarney Fest and 1996's Son of Blarney Fest -- they're available for FREE download. Thank you, mcroft, for making these rare recordings available! As always, the in-print Flying Fish Sailors catalog is available from Amazon. :)

Comments

[nicoleallee.livejournal.com]

You know, I was gonna get all congratulatory when I read that on the FlyingFishFeed yesterday, but then I had posts telling me to be sure to come to the upcoming St. Patrick's Day Bash, so I got confused and thought maybe the Fish had gotten this award earlier in the year.

So, is the above sentence compound-complex, or just a run-on?

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

To the best of my knowledge, the Houston Press Award is current. Jay's announcement is dated 26th Sept and it's a 2007 award. The article itself is undated (annoying, that) but it was news to me. (That doesn't necessarily mean anything. I'm very swiss cheese brained these days.)

I vote for compound-complex because it didn't make me want to pant for breath or spork my eyes out. It read fine to me! (I think we've become used to punchier sentences and shorter paragraphs due to the digital medium than when we were primarily paper-based.)