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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This link for those for those using Google Chrome — in which this audio player doesn’t seem to work.

What have you Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), this week?

What are some of your favorite literary pieces of suspense, mystery or the macabre? I’m speaking fiction here, not the likes of Capote’s In Cold Blood.

If you haven’t caught these I suggest them.
The Turn Of The Screw, Henry James.
The Circular Ruins Jorge Luis Borges.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.

Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damned all those that trust them!

Peace

Ten days free to read before the first of my summer sessions begin. Tell me of the book you FINALLY read after avoiding it for years, the book you now can’t imagine living without having read.

I’ve have a couple lightweights hanging around, Driving With Dead People and Outliers, both should be quick reads. I finally read Of Human Bondage during my last batch of free time. Suggest away. Nothing to do with foreign or national policy, government, or politics please. I’m off that for a ten day sabbatical. This is an exercise to see if my cyber habits have forever damaged my ability to read Gilgamesh without checking to see if he has a twitter account.

A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu? Maybe. I haven’t read it. Some more Chekov? I’ve loved several of his short stories, I could do with a few more. Rothschild’s Violin maybe. I haven’t read it. Shocking I know considering my propensity for all things violin. Middlemarch? Suggested by someone, or I wouldn’t even consider it. If you have an opinion one way or another make a case. I’m book shopping during lunch tomorrow.

OSF theme this week is “The Greatest Of All Time”. I’m off to study for that one.

In the meantime check out my last post at Should Be Famous, a blog with an identity crisis now accepting poetry, pictures and other prose. A clip wrongly titled PolliNation, as ants suck the sweet out of my peonies.

Peace