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?
