FLFOT! (Folklore Friday on Thursday!)

My Fridays are usually kind of busy - and I sometimes forget about Folklore Friday.  All right, I may have forgotten for many months.   Here are some links updating what is going on in the wonderful world of folklore studies!

• The Boiled Down Juice is collecting stories about Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.   Check them out here
• I saw a guy on the train reading Nancy Marie Brown's new book "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths."   When I got to work I immediately looked it up and discovered the author's blog God of Wednesday.   Add this one to your reading list!
• Mr. Proverb - Wolfgang Mieder - is the winner of the AFS Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
• Couldn't make the AFS meeting in New Orleans last month?   Read the report here.
• Indiana University - home of America's premiere folklore program - is looking for a lecturer
• .In more IU news: Professor Portia Maultsby was the Charles Seeger Lecturer at the Society for Ethnomusicology's meeting in New Orleans.
• Another blog to add to your blogroll:  Living Ethnography.   Now this is how to do a blog!
• New issue of JAFL!  

First of Tha Month

On the first of the month, to ensure good luck, you should say the words "rabbit rabbit rabbit" when you wake up.

I always forget.

But I never forget to sing these timeless lyrics:

"Wake up, wake up, wake up it's the 1st of tha month
To get up, get up, get up so cash yo checks and get up."

Here's some folklore books coming your way this month, two of these books I would love to see under my Festivus pole:

• Folk Culture in the Digital Age - Trevor J. Blank, ed.  Utah State University Press.   The last book on this topic by Trevor Blank was pretty good!   I told him so on Bookface.   It's called Folklore and the Internet.   People, read them both.   Might even inspire me to do some real folklore writing instead of this terrible blog.
• Appalachia Mountain Folklore - Michael Rivers.  Schiffer Publishing.
• Signs, Cures, and Withcery: German Appalachian Folklore - Gerald C. Mines.  Paperback version.   University of Tennessee Press.   I'm a squarehead who used to live in Appalachia!   And this book is now in an affordable paperback edition.   I hope my mutti reads this blog.
• Dictionary of 1,000 Chinese Proverbs - Marjorie Lin and Leonard Schalk.  Hippocrene Books, revised edition.
• Legends of the Scottish Saints: Readings, Hymns and Prayers for the Commemorations of Scottish Saints in the Aberdeen Breviary - Alan MacQuarrie, ed.  Four Courts Press.
• Adonis: The Myth of the Dying God in the Italian Renaissance - Carlo Caruso.  Bristol Classical Press.
• Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen - Greg Olson.   Missouri Biography Series, University of Missouri.