Dr. Hook on Shel Silverstein’s Houseboat

I do believe that title is what you call clickbait. It’s not as effective as a 500-word search engine-optimized article with between 1 and 2 percent keyphrase density about diet pills or an app that delivers pizza to you while you’re stopped at a traffic light in a crowdfunded cab. But it’s pretty hard to pass by without stopping, surely.

The fact that Shel Silverstein wrote Sylvia’s Mother is one of those trivia questions that everyone knows, but everyone tries springing on everyone else anyway. I’m sort of strange, so Shel Silverstein isn’t a notable author of children’s books who also wrote a hit song; he’s a guy who wrote Sylvia’s Mother and the trivia question is that he wrote some obscure children’s books I’ve never been interested in.

If you don’t know who’s who, Shel is the feller with the dirty feet who’s inexpertly playing the harmonica. Your house, your rules.