Welcome to Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday. I’m hoping someone has managed to read a page or two of People, or Runners World, in order to contribute some dignified commentary.
I’ve already posted this week that I will miss the location of my old job — far away from HR central.
Have read The Best Magazine Articles Ever. More specifically, the article listing the best articles, not the best articles per say. Except one. I managed to get to the November 1964 Richard Hofstadter gem (tagged Conservatism; Conspiracies; Political psychology; Radicalism), from Harper’s. “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”.
I’ve also read the The Epitaph to Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard , and should you wonder why, it is because someone sent it to me in an email. No idea who, the sender’s address was unfamiliar to me, though it didn’t end up in spam which adds a bit of legitimacy to it. Why would anyone send such a thing to me? The motive remains unclear. Maybe they know my love of poetry, but understand my attention span is limited, and so felt the whole poem would have been too much. Perhaps a death threat. Anyone’s guess.
I have seen the light and the thrill is gone. Maybe I’ve just listened toThe Thrill Is Gone, too many times this evening.
I love this King/Chapman version. King’s is the standard bearer because of his legendary mad guitar skills, but Paul Butterfield and Aretha Franklin do killer versions of this song.
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What have you Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), this week?
My brush with greatness. I once passed B.B. King’s tour bus on Interstate 65 in Indiana. I honked. Thus busdriver honked. The thrill lives on.
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I knew there was an aura of celebrity about you.
I never stride to contribute dignified commentary since I’m boring (bored) enough as it is. To each their own. I’ll skim Harper’s but I doubt I’ll discover any new summations. Like arguing religion there are no winners on either side, just people believing what they choose to believe because that belief best suits their ego. Very broad, I know, but again that is my simplified version. It’s all about egos.
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It was an essay not an argument per say.
I could understand ego and there is much of that in politics but it’s usually about profit.
Interesting list of article they have there, the Harpers Article only verifies that we are living in a viscous political cycle of sorts.
I can’t decide if the Epitaph to Elegy Church-Yard
email was thoughtful or frightening.
This music has made my day.
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frightening
I though of you when my brother called and proposed we buy some of that land around Greenbriar r. the place went bankrupt a few years back and is in resurgence with some very expensive development going on. I though about you because the golf tourney there this weekend.
If only I had time to read. I took 3 days off now I am working without free time for the rest of the summer.
Thanks for that song. And those eyes are….following me. Am I wrong?
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eyes i art always appear to be following the artist doesn’t have to be good to make it appear that way.
Looking at that list is like looking at a hard-on for David Foster Wallace. Not that it’s wrong, but that when people kill themselves they seem so much more worthy all of a sudden. I’ve seen his work referenced more often now than when he was alive – a hundredfold increase.
I like the Harper’s piece. 1964…god
Love the BB, and Tracy Chapman is to die for.
You get weird mail still?
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Looking at that list is like loo king at a hard-on for David Fo ter Wallace
I noticed that too.
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Looking at that list is like loo king at a hard-on for David Fos ter Wallace
You’re right one that one, but there are several writers listed more than once.
I get rare weird mail these days, sometimes though, yes.
The Butterfield and
Feliciano.
I’m going to read the Richard Hofstadter piece. Looks interesting.
I’m going with death threat.
P.S.
I’ve trouble with Chrome and WP audio postS before – . It is working today.
john recently posted..On Saving 68 Billion
Feliciano’s version is worth buying.
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Yea, it worked in Chrome yesterday it’s a bug in the browser. I have tried to embrace the browser but it is still buggy.
I like Feliciano’s version too.
The paper is yellowed on that pdf.
Love the BB King, and I promise it wasn’t me sent the epitaph.
bengayer recently posted..Lions and Tigers and…The Jungle Playroom
Thought never occurred to me. lol
yea well they probably did have to copy the archives from some really old paper.
I’ve slept all weekend due to strep throat, but like the blues and Tracy Chapman …awesome. It’ll be fun to look at it later.
No one send me poems or even ends of poems, but it is weird to get an end of that particular poem in an email.
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I saw B.B. King in Baltimore Harbor one summer when I was in high school. It was an experience. Mesmerizing.
The cover eye is eerie and childlike. Great piece.
This weekend I have read the newspapers, have seen Inception, and have no listened to BB and Tracy -love. The only thing better would be if you had made it downloadable.;)
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The only thing bet ter would be if you had made it down loa da ble
That’s be great but ille gal. BB deser ves to be paid.
I took this week off. I’m thinking of reading Love In The Time Of Cholera. If only because one of those “Which Book Are You?” quizzes said I was that one.
I used to have a subscription to Runner’s World. Now I just peruse the site. That counts as a workout, right?
Getting magazines in the mail. That seems so quaint now.
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I much preferred his “One Hundred Years of Solitude” though both are good books.
I have many (paper) subscriptions still, from Harpers and Vanity Fair to Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living. I’m a bit of a magazine hoarder.
Letting your fingers do the walking is what they a call a “below the sub-low impact work-out”. I suggest adding some jumping jacks.