troubadour

Be the troubadour who sings about their romantic woes with a twinkle in their eye.

The way troubadours and jongleurs traveled from castle to castle, telling tales and singing songs.

Enter our trusted troubadour of bullshit, TechCrunch:Hands down the funniest thing I've read in a while.

> "At eighty-two, the troubadour has another album coming.

It wrote about troubadours, but forgot to mention a reference well-known in the UK: Richard Lionheart spoke in French and Provençal, and was probably not fluent in English.

"there is a very strong capitalist-critical argument to be made about buying in more intentional and ethical ways, but color me shocked that very few of these minimalist troubadours ever really take things to an economic or class-based argument.

Besides that, the soulful singer songwriter goes back at least to the medieval troubadours, but appears in essentially modern form with the lute song composers of the 16th and 17th century - the model here is John Dowland, who in addition to composing a lot of melancholy songs, also composed some guitar-god-like solo instrumentals.

Michael E. Fisher, Horace White Professor of Chemistrry, Physics, and Mathematics, friend and neighbor, gadfly and troubadour, began to read the manuscript six years ago and has followed ever since, hard upon our tracks, through chapter, and, on occasion, through revision and re-revision, pouncing on obscurities, condemning dishonesties, decrying omissions, labeling axes, correcting misspellings, redrawing figures, and often making our lives very much more difficult by his unrelenting insistence that we could be more literate, accurate, intelligible, and thorough.