‘Was It Really You?’

I understand Tweets like this better now:

New performance by @KenStringfellow of @theposies: "Was It Really You?" by Mangled Grapes. It's a song I wrote around 1992, and I'm thrilled to see it performed by one of my favorite musicians of all time. https://t.co/s0OjVXXzGH

— Patterico (@Patterico) July 11, 2020

There is something thrilling about having something cool you made appear up there, in public and where you can — this is an important thing for me — get paid for it. Fame is good, kudos are wonderful, and even the oft-maligned ‘exposure’ has its tawdry charms; but there’s just something magical about that ka-ching!

Song’s good, too, if you’re into 90s music. Otherwise known as the music of my youth, God save the Republic…