Blogamous Maxamus. (Photo by Bird)
Bird got a birdie after a gorgeous iron tee shot on a par three as I was back to my informal little formal golf league at Northern Pines in Cicero, N.Y., last night.
He narrowly missed a second namesake. He was in a very good mood as the five of us filed into the clubhouse. He spied this hat sitting on a table, declared me old school and stuck it on my head.
Laughing, Bird told me to make sure I captioned said photo with the new golf league nickname he gave me last night, Blogamous Maxamous. I tried to get him to tweak it to Blogamous Markamous, but he would have none of that.
And so now I have a golf league nickname along with Bird, DJ, Morelli and Commish.
I had two pars last night after missing last week for that super week in Cape Cod.
About the Viking headwear just lying around … No, Northern Pines was prepping for a Night Golf Tournament later this week, and there were enough of these babies for each golfer to put upon their noggins, along with the glow balls and glow sticks that will go in the holes. Apparently these old school monstrosities will make the participants far easier to see out there marauding through the darkened hills and dales.
What do you think would be the best location and time for you to wear a Viking hat? If you played night golf, do you think you’d prefer to swing with your eyes open or closed? What would be your favorite weird hat to show up with to play golf in one round?
Mark Bialczak 
Sounds like you guys had fun. The glow in the dark balls and glow sticks sounds like it will be fun.
LikeLike
I’m not in the night golf event. I have enough difficulty playing when the sun is out, Kim!
LikeLike
Viking hats are acceptable at any sporting event. Fact. Haha.
LikeLike
Just not to the spectators behind you. See, Kerbey at the movie theater.
LikeLike
Yay for Bird!! Lovin’ the hat, Chum. And the new nickname! !
LikeLike
Golf league name, Aud, though I do suppose you may type it at one point, might you not?
LikeLike
You know I will, Blogamous Maxamous. 😉
LikeLike
Quick mind and fingers, Red. 🙂
LikeLike
Thanks, Chum 🙂
LikeLike
Dear Blogamous,
I LIKE IT! The name AND the hat! I give nicknames to people, too. My grandma is sometimes Long Legs McGee, unless we’re playing cards, and then her name is McClenny Slim or if we play with dice it’s Beans. Go figure. Does Ellie realize your new nickname rhymes with hers? 😀 At least you got to keep your original initials, even if they are inverted. 🙂
LikeLike
It takes talent to bestow nicknames like you do, Rachel. Very nice. And good catch on the inverted initials on Blogamous Maximus!
LikeLike
😀 (Actually, it just takes a bad mind for names, so I make them up out of necessity.) I’m weird like that. 😉
LikeLike
Thanks for the warning, Florida Flo. 🙂
LikeLike
LOL! I’ve been called worse. 😉
LikeLike
I am not a big hat wearer anymore, but my Mom wears different ones every day. I like to wear them with her, if there is an ‘occasion’ to wear one at! I like the Viking hat and think it suits the day and the mood! I would prefer your fedora or the other kind of hat, I have seen you wear before! (I think you have a golfing cap, don’t you?) Anyway, it sounds like a great game of golf, Mark! Congrats on the new nickname! It is a great one to have and enjoy! My silliest hat so far, was one where it looked like a Minnie Pearl one, on purpose, keeping the price tag on and all! Smiles, Robin
LikeLike
The Minnie Pearl, with price tag! I am trying to picture the distinguished Robin from your blog shot in that thing, and I am having a hard time coming up with it. So that is good Robin, very good! How about a leopard skin pillbox hat like Jackie Kennedy? That would be a good one. For you, not me … Haha. I’ll stick to my golf fedora or cap. The Viking won’t make a comeback if I can help it.
LikeLike
It would be totally weird for me to show up to play golf, so any hat would do.
Viking hat ? Appropriate any where.
Blogamous Markamous. So fitting. You need a shirt now.
LikeLike
A shirt? Now you have my wheels turning, Colleen. Franchise!
LikeLike
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LikeLike
If I looked as good as you in a Viking hat, I’d wear one every day, every place I went! Love!
LikeLike
Thank you CBXB! I wish I could have worn it to the Florida Line Country Fest last weekend. It might have made some sort of statement down there. Don’t know what, exactly … Boy, it looked like you had fun!
LikeLike
Um, you would have made a statement like, “I don’t need a cowboy hat because I’m a VIKING!” Would have been hysterical!
LikeLike
And of course, now you have write another post: Blogamous leads Dogamous (or what have you)…
LikeLike
You sense I will wring the mostamous that I can out of this, don’t you, Kerbey? If I were sitting if front of you at the movies and wearing this hat and you tapped me on the shoulder, I would put it on my lap and eat buttered popcorn out of it, of course! And I would not wear it in church. I’d hand it to the usher to turn upside down and use as an impromptu collection basket.
LikeLike
I don’t think church would be appropriate (horns are too reminiscent of the dark lord), but instead, anywhere you need to feel powerful. Like when you walk into a bank teller line. Or the 7-11 to get 2 for $3 Gatorades. But not at a movie theatre (which apparently you visit at least once a week) bc no doubt I would be sitting right behind you and have my view obscured. You could, however, stick a derby hat on each horn and twirl them about.
LikeLike
Walmart, church, a wedding. I would wear that hat anywhere. That’s a fine piece of headwear.
LikeLike
I think it should make the gossip column, page six, seen around town … Thanks, PLGCM!
LikeLike
Reblogged this on Martha Keim-St. Louis' blog and commented:
you need to be seen in that hat
LikeLike
The best occasion to wear a Viking hat…hmm – a parent/teacher interview? Love your new nickname Mark!
Diana xo
LikeLike
All teachers would treat your child with respect thereafter, you think, Diana?
LikeLike
no, well maybe, mostly to embarrass my child. 🙂
LikeLike
A different tack than I imagined altogether from you Diana. You continue to surprise and amaze me. 🙂
LikeLike
oh when she was 8, I was wearing a business suit, looking quite dapper and she looked me up and down and asked, “Aren’t you going to change before we go out?”
At age 10, we were sitting in my car and with a look of disdain on her face she said about the car, “I guess when you die I inherit this heap?”
“Yes,” I said, “and all my debt!”
I come from a long line of sarcasm and we all live for shock value!
😉 !
LikeLike
Love the new nickname and they gave you a new look to go with it! Sounds like a fun crew. I think the most appropriate place to rock a viking hat would be a buffet. I don’t know why. That’s just the first thing that popped into my decaffinated head. Where is my coffee anyway?
LikeLiked by 1 person
I know why, sis. Because the buffet line would get the heck out of the way and you’d have first Viking dibs on the best food, that’s why! Now get to that joe.
LikeLike
i love the hat and love the name. has to stay maximus, (for the ‘big’ meaning), you are a blogger in a big way. it is definitely old school in a big way, too. you are now officially one of the league boys, with your name and all. i have a viking hat in my classroom that the kids love to wear, something about it it just so fun and it makes everyone smile. oh, and respect you, of course ) as for my weirdest hat, i wore a swan hat once when i was a swan fairy at school., pretty huge but pretty cool. excellent post.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think your swan hat would be perfect for the holes on our course that have the pond going up the side of the fairway, Beth! And I think you have given me the proper spelling for my new golf league nickname, too. Blogamous Maximus. Very well, it shall be. Finally, if the Viking hat is good for the kinders, it is good for me!
LikeLike
yes, and it looks good on you too, as a bonus. you are right about the kinders, they are the perfect focus group for what is cool and what is not ) glad the swan hat would fit in, too –
LikeLike
I wonder how the geese on the pond holes would react to me playing them wearing the swan hat. I truly do, Beth.
LikeLike
it probably would be hilarious and you might be attacked. (not hilarious). and oops, i wasn’t trying to correct your spelling, that’s just what came off of my fingers when i was typing, and i was thinking of the old school guys in big hats. feel free to enjoy your name any way you like )
LikeLike
My way gets red squiggles. Your way does not. You win! And, yes, I would not put it past the geese to get angry at me for trying to join the flock.
LikeLike
Nice horns, Mark.
LikeLike
I’m glad you dig the style, Mer. I had reservations later, I must confess …
LikeLike
I think it suits you perfectly. 🙂
LikeLike