Another week, another FF, where does the time go? I can literally chart my progress through the swamp of middle age. Do I like what I see? Ask me in a few months and I’ll avoid the question, and continue my descent into denial.
Thanks to Rochelle for keeping this beast alive and kicking, i’m sure there’d be creative uproar if the cage remained open but the beast was asleep. Thanks also to the fantastically named Ted Strutz. If you’re familiar with the film “Ted” you’d also be able to confirm that he does!.
Enough of the procrastination;
On my Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
No one had spotted the Muffin Man for yonks. He had lived on Drury Lane, opened an astronomically expensive discount grocery store, changed his name and was going places, counting his money.
The song followed him whenever he unloaded his cart; the buskers came, the theatres followed and with them the foppish pretence of the acting classes.
He needed air, the same monotonous question was suffocating.
Years later, he was espied vomiting outside a Nirvana gig on Pine Street. If you listen to “Bleach live”, you can hear concerned friends, after “Molly’s Lips” asking “Have you seen the Muffin Man?”
Bit Niche, this one. I’m assuming the photo is Pine Street Theatre; Nirvana played there, I never saw it so I’ve assumed the whole kit and caboodle. Get me! It’s 100 words on the nose, google it!
The Count Of North Clifton 
At least I understood the muffin man reference
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Not sure I understood the rest! Its an important musical cultural reference, somewhere in there, maybe…
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Nice indeed, but still entertaining.
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Thanks Iain, I’ve got to get to bed, i’ll read the rest of the gang’s tales tomorrow, i’m bushed!
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Dear Shrawley,
Nice to know what happened to the Muffin Man. I’ve always wondered. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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For all your nursery scoops!!
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Oh, thanks a bunch! Now I’m going to have that tune in my head until or unless something comes along to bump it out! I taught elementary school music, and the kids loved those old nursery rhyme type songs. I would give them the history, the story behind the song, so they’d understand what they were singing. Great fun.
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At last we know where the Muffin Man went!
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Poor bugger. No wonder he went berserk!
Excellent, as per, Sir Shrawls!
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thanks for introducing me to the muffin man. first time i’d heard of him. 🙂
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Ahhh, the muffin man! Clever…
https://dbmcnicol.com/friday-fictioneers-freshly-boxed/
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Nuffin like the Muffin Man! Just when I thought I’d forgotten him you brought him back again!
My tale – An audience with Rosey!
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I look forward to your stories each week, the energy and zaniness of them tickle.
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Ah, yes. The same sad story of fame and its aftermath. I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek humor, Shrawley. Well written. 😀 — Suzanne
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Thank you 😊
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Muffin man had transformed himself completely. No one could recognise him.
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Got to admit you lost me with the references in the last paragraph, but I loved it anyway, and the wackiness of the whole thing is delightful.
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Tried to escape his origins. But the past haunts. And hurts. 🙂
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I did not know about this rhyme!
Nice new stuff! 😀
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