2010 National Book Awards Winners Announced

[Michael Bailey]

Joe's Garage is great: I like the title tune best, and the part where
he says, "a-and who gives a fuck anyway?"
(or something like that, I don't have that Joes' Garage to hand
anymore and do not know where it went either, a callow addiction to
mindless pleasures precludes serious collecting...at least in my
case...)

and before I joined the p-list and got all these great
recommendations, my most serious reading was usually Stephenson and
Gibson and Rense, so yeah, I like that international intrigue stuff
just fine myself too, I confess

(after such knowledge, what forgiveness?)


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> oh i'm just taking the piss
> patti smith at times is just so hilarious. i mean "jackson pollack is
> a nigger" that just makes me giggle everytime I hear it. u listen to
> enough zappa and you just can't take much seriously I'm afraid.
> can one beat listening to joe's garage very high on coke (weenie
> weenie weenie).
> or bongo fury's man with the woman head--isn't the best poetry a
> mocking poetics but retaining the essence of the original beauty
> i've lead a wayward life i'm afraid
>
> ;)
>
> rich
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Michael Bailey
> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> forget the nostalgic hippie punk lefty inherent vice bullshit
>>> better read about international
>>> finance/banking/terrorism-counterinsurgency if you want to know
>>> something worth knowing so you know who yr enemies are, folks
>>>
>>
>> if reading about that stuff could make it go away, I'd do it...
>>
>> Otherwise, I feel like I've got to spend at least some of my limited
>> time trying to keep the nostalgic hippie flame alive - or actually,
>> even more nostalgic for some of the straight people and phenomena of
>> the 60s and 70s, Clean for Gene, the civil rights movement, MLK's
>> non-violence, teach-ins, the notion of "jobs for life", actual
>> welfare, labor unions with clout, a world where Nixon - a Republican -
>> could bring the EPA into being and propose a minimum annual income for
>> all...
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
>> violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
>> liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
>> whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
>> governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
>> Adam Smith
>>
>



-- 
"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith