I think I'll be Cherish the Ladies, which was the steerage band in the movie Titanic. They'll be at the Irish Fair this year, too.

I have no blog but if I did I would be Sir Robin's head minstrel (Neil Innes) from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

I'll aim for Sam from "Casablanca", but I'll probably end up as Star Wars Cantina Musician #3. I'll just have to be satisfied with thinking of Sam before anyone else;)

Good ones, all.

But the point is, what does your blog represent (or what WOULD it represent, if you did a blog) in the greater scheme of the world's news? Sheila says Titanic musicians, playing a diverting tune on the way to disaster.

I take the bagpiper in Braveheart because that's what pipers do; they rile the troops up before the battle, to the point where little old ladies are smacking people down with claymores (the sword, not the directional mine. Bagpipes and covert ambush weapons don't mix).

Well, one must be flexible I believe. I started my blog as some kind of cavalry-charge music. Trumpets and fifes and drums. Rat a tat tat. Day in, day out. That experience soon palled. I got burnt out. Then I had a spate of melancholy and nostalgia, and so my blog became definitely Sam playing As Time Goes By in Rick's Cafe Americain. Now? I just want to have a good time, while the world goes to hell. Musicians on the deck of the Titanic.

Maybe I'm gathering strength for the next cavalry charge.

Oh, and if I ever stop being a "guilty" pleasure, I will be very disappointed. :)

Nah, Red, I understand. My blog has changed a bit over the years, too.

And I should point out that not only did the bagpiper get everyone stoked for the battle - he also played the party afterwords. (My lips are exhausted thinking about it...)

I can't help but think that if there'd been a piper on the Titanic, the passengers would have built rafts; the next morning, the Carpathia would have found them hacking the iceberg to pieces with their bare hands in a white-hot fury.

Now that is quite an image. Maybe it's in the DVD extra-scenes of the film.

My blog wants to be Spike Jones, but it's probably more Philip Glass - same thing over and over until it alternately starts to make sense or bores everybody beyond tears.