SPOLETO BUZZ BLOG

Over at P&C’s Spoletoblog, host Dan Conover occasionally posts snippets of poetry from friends and associates he’s calling “spokus” — haikus about Spoleto. Yesterday evening, over a happy-hour beer, while I was dusting myself off from a challenging Friday overview schedule — I’d already been to see Charleston Ballet Theatre, Second City, the Upright Citizens Brigade, paid a visit to Jane Monheit at Millennium Music, and still had Hazelle Goodman’s On Edge in my near future that evening — my friend Elizabeth Krans wrote me her own spoku, entitled “Spoleto”:

Harvest of culture
Yields crops of arts and letters
Patrick now frenzied

(The karma police were obviously napping last night, because later that evening Elizabeth’s car was towed from a lot on King Street. A call to Crosby’s Towing connected us with an attendant who said we’d need to bring $120 before midnight, cash only. Have these people learned nothing from the City Paper’s industry-roiling towing investigation earlier this year? I can see that once again I’ll have to spend a portion of a weekend in a towing office, Charleston Municipal Code in hand, reading aloud to a surly attendant who neither knows nor cares what the laws are. Perhaps I’ll get another good feature for the paper out of it.)