Unless we just want to torture some people at brunch by reading it aloud in a comical voice, we steer clear of Maureen Dowd's cat-lady musings in the Sunday paper. But the self-obsessed dingbat's latest column apparently targeted 69-year-old singer/songwriter Bob Dylan ... because, uh, he didn't perform enough of his early 1960s material when he played a show in China. Dowd wasn't there, obviously, and apparently has no idea that Dylan has written and recorded hundreds of songs and dozens of albums since she heard "Blowin' In the Wind" in that Time-Life '60s documentary she cries herself to sleep to every night, alone, but that didn't stop her from the usual
I think in a world of Sarah Palins and Michele Bachmanns the courtiers of the conservative aristocracy lose their appeal and are reduced to sighing at Beltway cocktail parties.
I saw the LA Hollywood bowl show. Half folk and half what he wanted to play. I was 17. It was awesome. Including the future teatards who paid to come and see what would happen and boo when it did. And now here I am on Wonkette enjoying "Love and Theft". It's all good.
I saw Bob Dylan in concert a couple years ago. He didn't sing those songs then even though he was under the umbrella of freedom. And if my concert is any guide, most of the Chinese will leave early and wonder why they bought tickets. (Or had tickets forced on them by the Ministry of Seat Filling.)
I opened the NYT on Sunday, read maybe a para of that piece and quit. You should have too, Ken. OTOH, <i>...Maureen Dowd&rsquo;s cat-lady musings...</i> does hit the target.
I think in a world of Sarah Palins and Michele Bachmanns the courtiers of the conservative aristocracy lose their appeal and are reduced to sighing at Beltway cocktail parties.
Nice work.
Now that you mention it, you must be dead nuts on about that.
I commend your thinking, and would also suggest:
Chimes of Freedom, Bob Dylan alone with guitar and harmonica The Walls of Redwing
In general, I bet that Bob Dylan understands that the Chinese know how their society could be improved better than he does.
I saw the LA Hollywood bowl show. Half folk and half what he wanted to play. I was 17. It was awesome. Including the future teatards who paid to come and see what would happen and boo when it did. And now here I am on Wonkette enjoying &quot;Love and Theft&quot;. It&#039;s all good.
Needs moar Peggy Noonan.
I saw Bob Dylan in concert a couple years ago. He didn&#039;t sing those songs then even though he was under the umbrella of freedom. And if my concert is any guide, most of the Chinese will leave early and wonder why they bought tickets. (Or had tickets forced on them by the Ministry of Seat Filling.)
I opened the NYT on Sunday, read maybe a para of that piece and quit. You should have too, Ken. OTOH, <i>...Maureen Dowd&rsquo;s cat-lady musings...</i> does hit the target.
I&#039;ll hazard a guess that Bob Dylan doesn&#039;t actually spend much time caring about Maureen Dowd&#039;s opinions.