And Garrison Keillor! Cheers to you Joe,
Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
Friedrich Nietzsche
On 8/6/07, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I like it too. And Garrison Keillor. And early this morning strolled past
> the Fitzgerald Theater and blessed it.
>
>
>
> MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: --- Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
> > Jeex, 2 nice days in a year_ I just listened to
> > Prairie Home Companion, I
>
> > know, I know, nobody likes it here....
> >
> >How brave you are, Verena!
>
> Candice
> >
> > On 8/5/07, Frederick Pollack
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Kenneth Wolman"
> > > To:
>
> > > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:33 PM
> > > Subject: Re: I said he was my favorite literary
> > character...
> > >
> > >
> > > > Frederick Pollack wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> I see Pynchon's point about the "width and
> > tallness" of the wind along
> > > >> 14th St. But as a native and ever-homesick
> > Chicagoan I must say that,
> > > >> for sheer intensity of Venturi effect, any
> > east-west street in the
> > > Loop,
> > > >> between State St. and Michigan Avenue, beats
> > 14th St. by a mile. Plus
> > > >> the tendency for that wind to change direction
> > in an instant - off the
> > > >> prairie, then off the Lake - without losing
> > speed. Carried me and my
> > > >> umbrella a block once when I was ten.
> > > >
> > > > Xmas week 1973 I go to the MLA convention, held
> > that year in Chicago.
> > > > They stuck us in great hotels: I was in the
> > Palmer House. All the
> > > > graduate students are job-hunting, very taut and
> > open to raucousness.
> > > > Male faculty, after a year in Binghamton, act
> > like a bunch of miners
> > > down
> > > > the hills of Colorado. So do the females. We
> > start drinking Canadian
> > > > Club at 9:00 AM. Parties, condolence sessions,
> > bacchanalia all the
> > > > livelong day. I get to witness Leslie Fiedler
> > groping two women at
> > > once.
> > > > The party is the Joyce Society or some such
> > thing and it feels like 100
> > > > people stuffed into a room the size of a
> > wristwatch. Everyone is
> > > smoking
> > > > something and everyone is real drunk. Later, my
> > roomie and I kill
> > > another
> > > > bottle at 2:00 AM. I leave him watching Lanza
> > in The Great Caruso and
> > > > pass out. Oddly, I don't feel drunk. At 7:00 I
> > get my wake-up call
> > > from
> > > > the desk. Immediately I am convinced I am going
> > to die. My fingernails
> > > > hurt. Once I am able to get out of bed without
> > fear of a technicolor
> > > yawn
> > > > all over the carpet, I discover the pain of
> > water in a shower. Years
> > > > later I am reminded of this horror when I read
> > about a very ill Teresa
> > > of
> > > > Avila confined to a Spanish sanatorium where
> > they tie dead chickens to
> > > her
> > > > suppurating wounds, figuring one poison drives
> > out another. I slink
> > > into
> > > > corners afraid someone will spot me. This is
> > hilarious since everyone
> > > is
> > > > in the Parker House coffee shop nursing
> > independently-acquired
> > > hangovers.
> > > >
> > > > The operator on the phone had cheerily announced
> > that it was 35 degrees
> > > in
> > > > Chicago. That doesn't sound cold. Then I hit
> > Michigan Avenue, hangover
> > > > and brains in hand, and discover a typhoon
> > blowing up...and the freaking
> > > > SUN is out. Binghamton got cold too but the
> > wind always died down when
> > > > the temperature approached laboratory absolute
> > zero. THIS is atrocious.
> > > > "Windy City" they called it. I suppose they
> > still call it that?
> > > >
> > > > ken
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > The Palmer House should have warned you. Wind
> > chill in Chicago can make
> > > Minnesotans cry. -- Summer, on the other hand,
> > kills people by the
> > > hundreds.
> > > There are two nice days a year. You wait for
> > them. Hopefully see them
> > > out
> > > in a blues club on Lincoln Boulevard.
> > >
> >
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