Our fame spreads...

By late afternoon on Friday I'd had just about all the conferencing I could handle, so I went down to the Swamp Fox bar for a drink and a little journal writing.  After a bit, I fell into conversation with the guy sitting next to me, who had been at my presentation that morning, and had nice things to say about it.  Eventually he introduced himself as Steve Dew, now at UNC-Greensboro.  Conversation moved on from work issues to family and other interests and eventually music came up and when Steve asked if I played solo or had a band, I told him about "the world's first international librarian rock band."  I'm used to getting a bemused or laughing response to that claim, but Steve got this thoughtful look on his face, as if he was trying to jiggle a memory loose.  "No, no," I was about to say, "you've never heard of us..."  But before I had the chance, recognition dawned and he said, "Savannah!  That was you!  The Bearded Pigs in Savannah!  I was at the offcampus library services conference!  I was one of the people who came back to dance!!"

So now I was dumbfounded, but realized why he looked somewhat familiar.  I told him about the Evidence Based Librarianship conference coming up next May.  I hope he'll be able to join us for that.  We need all the dancers we get!

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And I was just thinking back fondly on Savannah the other day when I fired up my amp and plugged in my Starfire II...

The OCLS conference has a snap of us in their flickr collection:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jthomasj/sets/72057594125873650/

I'm gonna have to ask Joanne if it's OK to invite lotsa NC friends tto the EBLIP gig...