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Good Bye, Joe Strummer...
Posted Dec 24, 2002
You weren't a Dylan,
but who needed another one...?
You were a voice screaming out of the shower
of confusion,
an everyman who stood up and tuned up
and, in harmony with your band mates,
proved that you didn't have to be
stupid or vain to make music.
You had no fear of your influences,
and you had no fear of creating your own.
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust...
but Rust Never Sleeps...
Good Bye, Joe... it was much too soon 
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6006 North Not-Quit-There-Yet
Posted Nov 30, 2002
This space for rent.
Got my first hard cold of the winter.
Coughing, dribbling, sneezing, brain chugging along with just a little bit less oxygen than it is used to...
Looking at the world sideways and listening to "Comfortably Numb" on the radio...
and wishing I could find my Sex Pistols album...
Ahhh, even Steely Dan would be...
I remember when "The Wall" came out. I was in High School. I had had a couple of copies of "Quadrophenia" and "Tommy" and I knew how much "The Wall" owed to Pete Townshend.
I hadn't, at that time, yet encountered "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". That was a couple of years later. Heck, I couldn't even tolerate Rush at that time...
I was listening to Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" and "Passion Play", Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes "Jukes", Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Ramones' "Rocket to Russia", George Thorogood, Elvis Costello, Rachel Sweet, Hazel O'Connor, Lene Lovich, Eight-eyed Spy, Nick Lowe "The Jesus of Cool"....
yeah... Nick Lowe...
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The Wright Bros. Car
Posted Nov 26, 2002
Having a bit of trouble acertaining if either Wilbur or Orville owned a car.
They did do a bit of traveling, but all I can find so far is by train and boat.
It's not like anyone would have been loathe to give them a ride.
But that would be an interesting bit of trivia to amaze your friends and confuse your enemies: What kind of car did the Wright Bros. drive?
Wow, that would have been a primo endorsement for a carmaker in those days. The Wright Bros were not above a little publicity themselves.
On the other hand, the wonderfulness of having a Wright Bros drive your vehicle might have been overwhelming enough that some enterprising little company might have given them one!
I'll have to see who was doing business in Dayton in those days.
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Don't do it like that!
Posted Nov 19, 2002
Having one of those hypercritical weeks.
Trying to fix the fambly finances so that they resemble nonfiction rather than fantasy.
Trying to figure out how to motivate the child without alienating her.
Trying to figure out how to avoid killing the mother-in-law.
Trying to figure out how to keep the dog from killing the cat...
And, trying to figure out how much to really worry about and how much to let go....
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I sat, I saw, I wish I hadn't.
Posted Oct 22, 2002
Watched 'Dragonfly' last night.
Should have learned my lesson with 'Waterworld'.
Costner hasn't acted since "Silverado", a fact he seems to realize, since he drug Linda Hunt into this overlong would-be "Twilight Zone" episode to remind him of what real acting could be... but poor Linda couldn't prop it up. The best she could do was show up sober and rememeber her lines. She did have enough sense to murmur most of them in the hopes that memory of this role and this movie...would rapidly fade...
A hope I certainly share...
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