Board Games, Songwriting and Voodoo Dolls with Bruce Hilliard
Hello with a full tank of coffee, I’m Bruce Hilliard and guess what kids. It’s game night.
I just love it when we can all get together and play Pandemic: The Home Game. It can be a riot.
I don’t know about you guys but I grew up playing board games. Twister, Operation, Mouse Trap.
Monopoly where you crush your opponents by charging them rent, jacking up their utility bills and gouge them for riding your obsolete train. And, you can bribe your way out of jail.
The Game of Life 2020. I like this one a lot. You can use any of nine different colored pegs, or combinations, to represent your gender. Twenty-six dollars. Available from Hasbro.
The new Clue, called Getta Clue. We call it news and we play it everyday. Mr. Mustard in the office with the Tweet.
Candy Land comes with dental floss; Scrabble, the dirty word version; and Pictionary Porn.
But here on the Better Each Day podcast we insist on keeping things clean. Way back in the sixties my brother Gary got a board game called Mystic Skull for Christmas. We were kids. We decided it was way too lame to play so it sat on the shelf for years until one day I was drinking my dad’s scotch (a few years had gone by) and used the instructions to write these song lyrics.
It was the first time I’ve ever read instructions, for anything, so I was amazed at the scope of terminology they used to make some game designer’s LSD trip into a children’s game. Things like witch doctor, hex, shrunken head and great beyond.
This is another one of those lost recordings from decades ago that just recently resurfaced via the recording engineer and backing vocalist, brother Gary Hilliard. I hope you enjoy this. The song: Voodoo Dolly.
Thank you so much for listening and don’t be sticking pins in your neighbor’s dolly. Take care of yourself, take care of others and make it a good day.
