Lola at the Coffee House

@Lustig Andrei,

I think Tommy Makem died just a few years ago. I didnt NOT like em, I just liked other Irish groups better. I like some showmanship and harmony in songs. Its often hard to telll when an rish song is done or that the band is just taking a "smoko"

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@farmerman,

It isn't hard for me fm. They are just milking the udder of sentimental nostalgia.

Dylan cuts it with a white hot scalpel. That's why you have it on Ignore. He was doing a sort of funeral oration before the event.

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@spendius,

I liistened , and it was ok. No "white hot scalpels". You just like to hear yourself talk. As was said about him

"Dylan exemplified the great mind **** of the 60's"

Much ofDylan's stuff is like Billy Jack, ya hadda be 16 in the late 60"s and then hed stay with you like your grandaddies stories.

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@Lola,

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I have to admit that I go weak in the knees for Mark Knopfler. Sigh

That's because he makes it all sound so simple and cosy. Like Liberace did. And many another. How anybody sits through two hours of it passes my comprehension.

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My father knew the Billy Jack guy, who went to our church (well, not much mine then).

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Among the sundry or sun-dried habitues foregathered here, is anyone actually in, or does he or she have any knowledge of, or even any inkling of the existence of, the Jane Austen Society of North America?

http://www.jasna.org/

What an amazing thing to be sure.

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@McTag,

Im a son of a habitue

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I have a very high opinion of Miss Austen's writing. I think one could make the case that she was the best satirist ever to write in this language. I've read all of her novels, most of them more than once, and i'v read her juvenilia. I cannot fathom, however, what a Jane Austen society would do. Sit around and gush at one another about poor, dear, dead Jane? It passeth understanding.

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/ausfotoj.jpg

(If only Jane had known about Florida.)

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@farmerman,

I think Ill start out with a big lapsang lotsa sugar. Im freezin.

My car made some weird noises when I was en route here. Hope its nothing serious, I just spent signifiacnt money on some new tires for her.

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@Setanta,

I once sat in on a Nero Wolfe Society meeting. It was a major freak show. People come in cotume and get hammered on beer during the meetings. AT that point in my life I doidnt need any manufactured conference to get hammered.
I could maybe get into a MArk Twain SOciety meeting (If there, indeed, was such a society). There would be a wealth of opportunity to consider many planes of reality with him, like "Do pumpkins really grow on trees?", or "What are some effective and economical ways to "Salt" a mine prospect".

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@farmerman,

I suspect that Mr. Clemens would not have wanted to be a member of any society which would have had him as an object of veneration--although if they stocked free cee-gars and whiskey, he might have dropped in.

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@Setanta,

Id like to have seen him give a talk about "Investment strategies" for the gilded agean. That woulda been a hoot if he ever fessed up to his "mistakes"

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I loved his stories about lightening rods and burglar alarms. In one, he mentions that one of the burglars had told him that his latest gadget was the best alarm he had ever bypassed . . .

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Sam - I used to call him Sam - (he called me squirt) - used my youthful exploits as inspiration for the character called Tom Sawyer. It hurt my feelings he did not consider me a Huckleberry Finn, instead. I asked for part of his royalties. He denied the connection and stopped emailing me.

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I will have the usual black coffee, please. And a bear claw.

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@edgarblythe,

we got some fresh bear last night. Youll have ta kin er though pilgrim.

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@farmerman,

Make a necklace of the claws?

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@Setanta,

I guess they talk about Jane Austin novels, or something. I also have read most of her works. But I enjoy so many writers, I'd hate to confine myself to just one. But if I were to do that, it would be Mark Twain.

We never emailed, but I did write letters. They were returned unopened. I guess he was busy.

Wassau, it's lunch time and I'm hungry. Whattauhave? I'm feeling unimaginative at the moment.

Worry worry worry. But look, it's a very nice day today. I think I'll go for a walk.

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@edgarblythe,

I've always suspected that Sam used me as his model for Huck Finn. (Wouldn't split any royalties with me, either.)

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@Lustig Andrei,

Lustig Andrei wrote:

I've always suspected that Sam used me as his model for Huck Finn.

Just as well it wasn't William Archibald Spooner.

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