I can’t post this latest Holly photo on the blog lest it blind you all with it’s potentially toxic levels of cute. Seriously, put on some protective goggles or shades before clicking on this link.
Devin actually got a shot of me working at my “desk” today. I will hide this photo also, only because I can’t bear to have it hanging on the wall of the blog. So depressing. Yes, it’s light out. Yes, I’m in bed, where I have been since we turned the clocks back last fall. Like the bear, I plan to emerge from my hibernation during the spring thaw, but unlike the bear, I might have to be removed from my “den” through a window, by a giant crane. If you want to gain weight, which I know everybody does, I recommend that all work, play and eating take place in bed, in a semi-reclined position. Like this.
I love the way Daphne is smiling at the camera. She’s been enjoying our months in the beddesk as much as I have.
That Holly has some “old soul” eyes. Way, WAY, too cute. I’m telling you she needs her own agent.
Adorable, just so damn adorable. To spend a day surrounded by those beautiful little creatures is a day in paradise. You’ve got the right idea, Ann. Lollygagging away in bed is what we’re supposed to do until the days get longer. Just keep an eye out for bedsores…
So very cute. Seems to me like that’s the perfect way to spend a damp, drizzly, dreary Sunday. And I notice, also, that you can look at your computer with a naked eye….no reading glasses needed….lucky girl !!!
Sorry, I was “twittering”..left you a tweet….It’s ok Ann..You are comfortable and relaxed. It’s a joy to see you “Work” with girls close by. It gives you inspiration…I’m still “lounging” today also. I agree with Aislin, spring will be here soon (not soon enough for me) and you will be out with the Horses, and just think of what little treasures Holly can bring to you in the spring. Hopefully you have spoken to her about toads.
I love that Daphne and Holly look so much alike. It’s like mother and daughter. I wouldn’t leave that bed either if I shared it with them.
Too cute for sure!!.
Hey, I didn’t finish…I was going to say before I hit something that posted before I was ready…..
That bed scene looks like me reading in bed the way you have the laptop propped up on pillows. I’m reading a very heavy book about the abdication of Edward the VIII, my arms get tired holding it up, so I need the pillows. I like to read in bed before going to sleep.
Thanks for those adorable pics.
Annie, I finished reading a book about the abdication, basically highlighting the letters written between Edward and Wallis Simpson. Fascinating stuff. In the end, she was not to blame – in my humble opinion.
Interesting stuff, isn’t it Aislinn? The name of the one I’m reading is THE WINDSOR STORY. My sympathies are with the king, so sad as to how that all came about,I feel he was a bit impetuous,had to have what he wanted…NOW.
Got to get back to the book,my husband is waiting for me to finish so he can read it. If I put it down he grabs it and starts reading,grrr I hate that. I hide it on him.
: )
That is some major cuteness right there. There is nothing better than hearing the content sigh of a dog settling down on the bed for a nap. And with the weather today, what a perfect thing to do!
I would be mortified if my hubby took a photo of me when I napped – with an open book – on the couch today, head hanging back, mouth open, looking like a Muppet minus the puppeteer. Classy!
Annie, me too, I read in bed before going to sleep, it’s how I shut my mind off. Hardcover, large books are hard to handle! I’ll have to try the pillow method.
Ann, no horse updates as of late…are they all on winter vacation in their fuzzy coats now? Perhaps once the rain exits later this week and my ring is dry, I can start lunging Zeus…just a tad excited to see what he’s got!
Ann so funny
Don’t feel bad I work from home and it gets so bad if I do get dressed my family freaks out.
Oh you look nice they say
Thanks
Wow you look great today
What did you do differently?
I put on pants
OH right that’s it.
Barbara, I removed the glasses when the camera came out. What you see is me staring senselessly at a square cloud of shiny whiteness.
Annie, can I have the book after your husband?
I’m rereading REBECCA and I have to say I had forgotten how beautiful the writing is. I’ve also started DOGTOWN by Elyssa East, which I believe somebody recommended here. It’s not about dogs, but rather about a spooky area in Gloucester, MA. I’m liking it.
Did anyone notice Coco’s maniacal expression in the photo? She’s retreated to her “happy place.” The poor dog is on the brink of insanity due to the constant torture and harassment by the puppy. That glazed, vacant look is about all that’s left of our formerly vivacious Coco.
So, Ann, will your bed be wheeled or carried to Croton Falls next Saturday? Should I check with Tazza Cafe to see if it will fit through the doorway?
Ann, LOVE the photos! I actually got out and rode my horse today, but the temps are milder (50s). Otherwise, I would have stayed indoors reading too. I agree about the exquisite writing by du Maurier. It’s been so long since I’ve read Rebecca, I had forgotten the beautiful writing. I also don’t exactly remember the ending, so I guess there’s an upside to aging.
Courtney, hope your mother continues to do well! and you too, of course.
Lovely pics !! Doggies must love getting all snuggly with you in bed for the winter months..I do the same thing…
want to know what else is depressing?? seeing pictures of yourself 10 years ago and saying “WHAT!!!” I should not have done that today…….. why me why me?? No wonder I ate a mars bar….. writing this from my bed in my robe … been this way allllll day.
I am very much laughing at Alan’s request of Ann. LOL!
Amanda: I spent nearly 2 hours on the elephant sanctuary site. Geez. Lots of welling up and lumps in my throat. What a glorious place for them to be in their golden years. All of them have had it rough from the start of their lives. The public can go there but they won’t see them. You can volunteer as in doing daily chores, painting fences, etc. which is great but the odds of seeing them are nearly zero. You can also do a six week internship which is probably the only program where you can get close to them. They don’t place them on display for humans (they’ve had enough of that) because it is a sanctuary just for them. Very interesting, wonderfully humane organization. I will probably do a sponsor. My job would never give me 6 weeks – but that would be up my alley. They also have a cam set up so you can see them during the day. I really loved the site – thanks for turning me on.
Just poppin’ in for the first time to say three thank you’s:
Thanks for the encouragment to donate to Haiti. Feel that I have done a small bit to help, at any rate.
Thanks for making my day, every day. This blog is so darn funny.
Ann, thanks too for encouraging reading. As a librarian, I am grateful. It’s been heartening to read that so many of you bloggers are going to your public libraries to check out Rebecca. Support libraries. As more content goes digital, public libraries are the great equalizers.
At our branch customers are still asking for The Help. Last year’s sleepers were The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I’ve been encouraging An Innocent, A Broad; Await Your Reply (of course); and The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Can’t wait to see what everyone has to say about Rebecca!
Ann, picture one: cute. Picture two: cuter! I would have spent all day in my jammies too (like I have done for several Sundays in a row) but ya know, had to put on pants and go to the library, again! I now have an ENGLISH language copy of Rebecca. (The librarian laughed at me too, although she didn’t say que pasa, like some blog friends did. Thanks guys. LOL! Fortunately, THAT much I do understand. So, Tracy, and everyone who enjoyed my dilemma: hola amigas and amigos!) The seriously horrid part about me not being able to speak Spanish, is that half of my family really does come from Mexico. Sadly, when they moved away, it was very un-cool to be a foreigner, so they tried to “Americanize” themselves and my mom never really abosorbed much of the language (although her parents spoke it in the house all the time, this annoys me daily).
Love the desk! That’s my kind of office!
Welcome Gail! Books like REBECCA, that are not hefty literary “classics” and also not published within the last few years, are not available on Kindle, so I’m not surprised that many are turning to their libraries for copies of the book and I’m always glad to help support the libraries. One thing I love about Kindle is that the “classics”-books that are in the public-domain, I guess, are available for free. Unfortunately, I think it also means that books are almost immediately in the public domain and I’m not sure what rights the author has to them, once they are out of print. I wish I knew all the ins-and-outs of what the future holds for publishing.
Thought I’d mention that I haven’t opened my Kindle in at least 6 months. Battery died at a very inconvenient time, which enraged me, and I’ve returned to the secure sanctuary of the bound book. The words never disappear in the middle of an exciting chapter in bound books.
Ann, Holly is wicked cute, no doubt. I thought you loved winter and would be out playing in the snow. Do you ever ride in the winter time, very mild weekend for January here, saw several motorcycles yesterday. Just into Rebecca big time.
Love both the pics! Yes, Coco does look like she’s retreated into her “happy place,” the poor dear. Such a pretty girl though. And Holly is just … just … indescribably cute! So glad the four of you had such a pleasant, restful day yesterday. That’s what dreary Sundays are for. You comment about apparently not needing glasses while using your computer (“What you see is me staring senselessly at a square cloud of shiny whiteness”) is hilarious, as is Alan’s about the logistics of maneuvering your bed through the doors of the cafe!
Kim and Amanda, are you referring to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee? I love that place too, have been a fan for years, ever since reading about the amazing reunion of two female former circus elephants who so touchingly, amazingly remembered each other with great emotion after 30 years. Elephants are such sensitive, intelligent, social creatures; something about them and their plight really gets to me. Very near and dear to my heart. I’m right there with you in terms of having a lump in your throat.
the elephant story is so heartbreaking….I think I’ve seen this story before…my son watches all the science/animal programs on tv. Coco looked so…..the caption I left for Ann was Mommy I’m here,Holly is looking at me again…Mommy R U watchin?.. poor Coco. Alan too funny….Unfortunatley it’s Moday and it’s gonna rain to the point we made need to build an ark…Nobedesk til Sunday….April showers bring May Flowers…January deluge brings flooded basements
Arliss: Yes – that is the sanctuary in Tennessee Amanda spoke of. You hit the nail on the head – your last paragraph says it all. I’m so inlove with them. The brutality they have and still endure sickens me.
Kim, I’m glad you enjoyed the Elephant Sanctuary site….I love their little slogan, “they’ve loaded up their trunks…and they moved to Tennessee!”. I didn’t realize they were so strict about visitors but it makes sense that if they’re rescued from a zoo or circus the whole idea is that they are off “display” to the public.
Gail, being a librarian you must always have along list of books to read. I love my local library and go at least every week. It’s very big and high tech, they have an amazing collection of DVD’s, CDs, and audio books. And also many workshops and adult ed. classes. I know many bloggers have Kindles, they seem very cool and convenient, but there’s something about the feel and smell of a book, turning the pages, even using a real bookmark, that I would miss. It’s interesting you have one Ann but stopped using it.
Arliss, here’s the link the the site again-
http://www.elephants.com
Thank you, Amanda, for posting the link again!
If any of you haven’t yet come across the touching story of best friends Tarra the elephant and Bella the dog at the sanctuary, you might want to check it out:
http://www.elephants.com/tarra/TarraBella.php
CBS News ran a segment on this last year. Perhaps what is most amazing is how delicately the elephant touches her much-smaller friend with her huge foot, and how trusting little Bella is. Really sweet story.
Poor Coco, she just knows what’s coming next. And Holly looks like she was interrupted mid-scheme.
Alan, hilarious!
Gail, I’m with Amanda, I’ll never give up my books. The feel and smell of books is half of the joy of reading for me. I wanted to be a librarian when I was growing up. I still give a little sigh of happiness when I walk into my local libraries. I’m very lucky that I have 2 very good libraries nearby. Two different counties, but I can use both.
Arliss, I loved that story. My heart melted. Thanks for posting the link. I didn’t know where to find it.
I wish I could open the links and read about the elephants, but I am such a wimp. I know I will cry. I think I’ve mentioned before how I can’t even channel surf by the Animal Planet channel without welling up.
Gail, I grew up in a house where we made multiple trips to the library weekly. It was a tiny little cabin library in Fairbanks, Alaska, but to me it was a castle! I used to play “librarian” when I was little. My parents let me tape little strips of paper into all of their books around the house and they bought me a date stamp (!) so I could “stamp the due date” into all the books my brother and sister “checked out.”
Ann, I think you could market the “bedesk” to IKEA and make a million dollars!
Me too Cath, I’d check out as many books as the library allowed! The library was my haven.
OMG, your librarian story is adorable! That is too cute.
I haven’t watched the elephant video, and I have to confess that I didn’t click on Kim’s link to the horror movie the other day. I’m the world’s biggest chicken when it comes to that, cannot watch anything like it. SO I knew better than to watch it. I can read gory Jeffrey Deaver novels, but not watch horror. I’d never be able to sleep again.
Oh Ann, that pic of Holly is off the cute meter! But so is Daphne smiling in the beddesk pic! Just adorable!
You look so comfy and cozy on that bed with those 3 beautiful dogs. Heavenly. I say – stay put. Don’t feel guilty at all – it’s a winter thing for sure. You know if it were a beautiful Spring, Summer or Fall day, you would be out and about. And think of all the work you’re getting done.
I’m like that when it’s raining – just don’t want to leave the house. It’s been raining in California for 2 weeks straight – ugh! The pattern (in the Bay Area, at least) is that we have a rainy season for a couple of months in the winter, but it never, ever rains during the rest of the year, which is nice. So, it’s grin and bear it time. This should be my worst problem, eh?
I love the Tara/Bella story – so sweet. Animals are just amazing.
And – there’s nothing like holding a REAL BOOK in your hand!
Linda S.
Hey Trace, yeah for some reason I don’t have much trouble watching humans hack/slash/torment each other, but throw an animal into the mix and I’m out! That’s why I admire your volunteer work with cats. I’m better at donating money than becoming emotionally involved. (My therapist is earning every penny – ha!)
Catherine, I love your story about playing “library”! Too cute! And yeah, I know what you mean about the danger of even glimpsing a show on Animal Planet … on occasion my husband has come into the room while I’ve been channel surfing, and he’ll catch me all teary-eyed or upset about something … then he’ll see what I’m watching, and say, “WHY are you even *watching* that channel? You know what it does to you! I tell you over and over again, you never learn …” (The elephant story is a *happy* one, btw—though it causes me to get verklempt every time!)
I am so impressed at the warmth Daphne has shown Holly. I believe the retreiver blood in the former makes her warm spirited. I have not seen any photo showing Lulu an Holly I wonder if an airedale/St. Bernard would be docile.
Gloria
Just wanted you all to be aware, today is a major holiday. It’s National Bubble Wrap Awareness Day! I love bubble wrap, and have been popping some to celebrate. hehehe Great stress reliever.
Arliss, thanks for that story. Nothing like a good “elephant loves dog” story to warm the heart! I couldn’t view the video on the link but I found this on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAN5nf04L2s
Rebecca has totally sucked me in, and I would love nothing more that to throw Mrs. DeWitt right out the window.
MY MISTAKE, MRS. DANVERS IS THE ONE WHO I WOULD LIKE TO PITCH RIGHT OUT THE WINDOW.
Arliss: thank you for the link – I had seen it twice on tv. Always always heartwarming.
Happy Bubble Wrap Day, Tracy. I’ll tell you when I see you what I do to people who pop those bubbles incessantly…and it ain’t pretty.
Thank God the 30th isn’t National Bubble Wrap Day. Tracy would be in deep doo doo with Arliss and I.
Not Arliss – Aislinn – sorry – its an “A” thing.
Kim, LOL!
Loved the Tarra and Bella story, made my night.
I’m presently obsessed with the elephant site. I am reading about each one and watching slideshows and videos. I am absolutely mesmerized. At work I had the elecam on – they have an actual camera on site and I believe its real time. Didn’t see anything but I’m hoping one day I will.
I love both pics! I would stay in my bed to work if I could too! On another note, I just finished a book called, “Murder Takes the Cake” and coincidentally the main character is named Daphne, after Daphne DuMaurier and references were made in the story to “Rebecca”. Weird.
I may have a new favorite animal rescue site – http://farmsanctuary.typepad.com/sanctuary_tails/animal-friendships/
Ahhh . . . I LOVE Donkeys!!! I’ve always wanted one. I’m sure Waylon Jennings would get a real kick out of his namesake — Waylon was the coolest guy, I wish everyone could have met him.
I used to live next door to a dairy farm and a Quarter Horse I had would hang her head over the fence and let the cows lick her face! It was so weird, I’d never seen that behavior before. I could watch farm animals for hours (and I did) they are so entertaining.
And speaking of animals who “date” outside their species, there was a crazy rooster next door who used to get on the backs of sheep, and well, do what males do. I’m not sure if he had any hens, or not — I think he just liked to play lord and master of the pasture.
I love the library posts. Catherine, you were born to be a librarian.
Do you all know about Karma Dogs? It’s a Baltimore based organization that supports animal rescue. Some local libraries (not mine at this point) bring volunteer dogs in on a regular basis to be read to by children. Great for practicing reading in a non-judgmental way. Check out their site for wonderful photos of kids and dogs cuddling and reading! http://karmadogs.org
Ann, I went back and read your post about finding your treasured children’s books in the stacks at your local library. Lovely.
Mary Lynn, I did meet Waylon Jennings several times but my favorite was at a party and he sang the first few lines of his hit “Amanda” to me. So how did you know him?
Gail, love the Karma Dogs group! What a wonderful thing.
Kim and Aislinn, how can you not like bubble wrap???? Couple of old farts I think. ;- ) Bubble wrap is the coolest!
Hey Amanda,
I’ll try to give you the condensed version . . . Of course, I’ve always been a big Waylon fan . . . and I used to do quite a bit of leather work, I got pretty good at tooling, especially figural work — portraits, and animal scenes and the like.
I began doing full leather tooled guitar covers, inspired by Buddy Holly’s and Ricky Nelson’s (Elvis had a famous tooled cover too, but the work was pretty crude), and of course Waylon’s famous Telecaster.
So one day I was working at my old law firm in downtown San Francisco, going through class member claim forms, and whose name and signature do I see — but Waylon Jennings! (John Conlee too). Waylon and John had invested in an office building directly across the street from where I was working in SF, and were a member of a class action my firm had settled.
I don’t know why I decided to make him a custom leather tooled ice bucket — I had found a vintage naugahyde (the nauga is ugly, its hyde is beautiful — anyone remember those ads?) ice bucket in a thrift store — and I remember thinking it had great potential as a canvas for my work, AND it was functional!
So, I did the crazy fan thing, and tooled the bucket with a profile portrait of Waylon and the grape leaf motif from his guitar. Then I sent it to him for his birthday I believe, with a letter that sort of thanked him for the inspiration for my leather work.
I didn’t think it would amount to anything (not knowing how appreciative most Country Stars are with their fans) and forgot about it. One day as I was in the midst of moving from my San Fran flat, the phone rang. A deep, gruff, manly voice on the other end said “Mary”, I said “who is this?” He said “you know who it is.” It was really creepy, I almost hung up on him. So I said “really, who is this?” He said “Waylon”.
We had quite the conversation, and he told me about Buddy Holly and his leather work, and a leather rose tooled Tele he had owned and given to Hank Jr., and how it was in the SF Hard Rock (that was news to me!), and his dislike of Gary Busey, and the stupid things Busey had said to him, and Johnny Cash and his leather work . . . lots of talk about guitars, and leather work, and Buddy Holly.
Waylon gave up his seat to Buddy on that tragic flight and even said “I hope your ole plane crashes” in response to Buddy’s “I hope your ole bus freezes”, and of course Waylon carried that with him his whole life, along with the memories of his dear friend.
So Waylon invited me to see him at a show down on the peninsula, and to wrap this up, when I met him he was every bit as warm and funny as I had hoped, but I was completely starstruck by his amazing wife Jessi Colter. That woman has amazing presence. I also remember his son Shooter, then just a shy kid playing bongos in the back of the stage.
“Amanda, light of my life. Fate should have made you a gentleman’s wife.”
Did you just MELT!?
Waylon, like George Jones doesn’t get enough credit for his songwriting . . . “Good Ole Boys” (The Dukes of Hazzard theme song) is nothing short of brilliant.
Mary Lynn! Is there no end to your talents? What a cool story! Country stars generally are the most down to earth people and very appreciate of their fans.
THANK YOU for the beddesk photo!!! You have given courage to other beddeskers nervous that they should maybe be sitting in cruelly hard straightbacked chairs vs. against favorite pillows…Not that beddeskers actually LET that nervousness stop them from beddesking, but in any case, thank you!
Amanda, my talents end pretty abruptly should I try to sing, play a musical instrument, act, engage in athletics, administer first aid, change a tire, earn a decent living . . . the list is very, very long and varied indeed . . . but thank you for the compliment.
I’d choose luck over talent, anyday.
Ann-BOTH pics are CUTE! If only I could look HALF as good in hibernation mode!(Sorry, still no evidence of haggery!!!!!)
Mary Lynn-Thank you for the Waylon story! I’m gonna pass it on to my dad who just got out of hospital (and doing FINE!)last week. He is the biggest Waylon (well, along with you, perhaps!)fan, ever! So with your blessing, I’ll pass it on to him, he’ll really enjoy it!
Amanda-I have an Amanda, too and I know the Waylon song well..when she was a babe, my dad used to sing it to her…
Tracy-My eldest SWEARS that bubblewrap has mysterious, calming powers!
Mary Lynn: Now THAT is the BEST story!
Lynne, your eldest is right! In the article in the Times yesterday it was mentioned that there have been studies that it reduces stress and leaves you less tired. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/celebrating-half-a-century-of-loud-soothing-pops/
I love the comments at the end (one of them is mine).
So glad your Dad is well!
Personally – it would extremely calming to me if I just wrapped Tracy up in the bubble wrap. ROFL!!!
I did that to one of my brother’s when we were kids. He rather enjoyed it.
Party pooper Kim. But that would be cool, I’d roll around & make tons of exploding popping sounds! Awesome! I’ll bring a bunch on Saturday, really drive you nuts! lololol
Confession-I have a Bubble Wrap App on my ITouch. (you just pop the bubbles with your fingers real fast) For those times when the real thing isn’t available!
Love it Amanda! I was just doing the online one. It’s only good if you do the ‘manic mode’. It’s like machine gun fire. Super awesome! lolol
Hey, did anyone notice Ann’s tweet? She got out of the bedesk, and went to play tennis!
Waylon was the coolest. Every bit the outlaw, but so warm, and funny, and kind. He lived in Nashville for years, but like most of the old school guys he didn’t care for the Nashville scene (remember, Nashville Rebel?), and moved back to the Phoenix area.
When they finally inducted him into the Country Music Hall of Fame he didn’t show for the awards show.
And yep, he really loved Texas and Bob Wills is still the King.
Waylon left us way too soon.
Mary Lynn, what a great Waylon story! And I love how you casually go from leather working to law firm, etc. There’s a memoir in there somewhere!
Gail, I sure wish Karma Dogs were around when I was young. I had the worst time reading in front of people. Just torture. I think if my first experience had been reading to a “class” of dogs instead of “human classmates” I would have enjoyed school more.
Tracy, about this bubble popping business and the stress reduction value of it….I’m assuming it’s the popper who gets the benefit and not those around her? That would drive me crazy! Like gum snappers in movie theaters!
Tracy/Alan, who is going to take some pics for the rest of us this weekend? Please don’t leave us out, and Ann will you post your work after you have read it? So wish i could come with all of you.
I have never heard of this Waylon guy, but I HAVE heard of bubble wrap – it is the *best* solution for a bored 3 year old neice.
PB, I do love how you turned “beddesk” into a verb!
Candy: I plan on bringing my digital and taking lots of photos.
Ann how was the lesson this AM? Variety of topics today..
Have to admit have to get off my butt and go find Rebecca.
Hope everyone has a good one!
Yes Cath, the relaxation and fun is for the popper. lolol
Candy, I’m betting most of us will have cameras. I’ll have mine.
Geeze, Mary Lynn, since you started talking about Waylon Jennings I’ve been singing his AMERICA all day,can’t get it out of my head. LOL I love that song.
Annie, I left my place singing “Luckenbach, Texas” this morning, and memories of a very raucus Karaoke session last month with “Good Hearted Woman” — sung to a newlywed couple — I’m way too tone deaf to grab the mike, but I am more than happy to sing and clap, and dance in the audience.
Check out what I just found on youtube — Waylon doing “Delia’s Gone” on Hee Haw from 1969 — Wow!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPzEaSV46wQ&feature=related
Nothing like a good murder ballad, especially done Waylon style.
KC — Have you never seen “Dukes of Hazzard” (the TV show)? — I’d tell a bubble wrap story, but it is kinda boring (if bubble wrap can be boring) Last time I moved I went through two of the “Big Rolls” — I mean really big, like 5 feet in diameter. If you can find a good industrial shipping supply place, you can get them there. Worth every penny. They come 24″ inches wide, perforated, and none — I’d recommend the perforated.
Gail, libraries are so cool. I have to share a Google Book Settlement story with you. The New York Times allowed Sergey Brin (founder of Google) to write a ridiculously self-serving op-ed piece about the Settlement. Here is an excerpt — “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”
Someone commented — “I think if you wanted to find a book in a library you could make a phone call, or better yet, email a librarian. Has this guy never heard of the internet?”
Get it? Sergey Brin — internet ignorant? Hilarious.
Anyways . . . I am opposed to the Google Book Settlement, but nothing I could have said would have made the point this comment did with humor.
Mary Lynn – Waylon was huge in Texas – did not listen to him much and I certainly did not know his music – maybe its just me but “Delia’s Gone”…… it’s melody sounds an awful lot like Eric Burden’s “House of the Rising Sun”. Geez – an awful lot.
Kim — It does, doesn’t it? “Delia’s Gone” and “House of the Rising Sun” are both traditional songs, around long before Waylon or Eric Burden ever got their hands on them . . . so who knows which one came first?
One of my favorite creepy traditionals is what I call “In the Pines”, better known as “Black Girl” or “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” . . . “In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines, and you shiver when the cold wind blows”.
Gosh, everyone has sung that song from Leadbelly to Dolly Parton to Bob Dylan to Bill Monroe to Nirvana, and so many others. I would love do a documentary a la “the Aristocrats” about that song. So many versions, all chilling as heck. Even reading the lyrics gives me goose bumps.
That’s right — I’m not from Texas, but someday I hope to get an honorary membership.
I’ll never forget a few years ago the first time I drove into the Lone Star state. I hit the state line from Oklahoma and a tumbleweed blew across Highway 40 right in front of me, and “Amarillo by Morning” one of my all time favorite songs, came on the radio.
M.L. – I believe I had said it in another post that I lived in Texas for 10 yrs – 2 in Dallas and 8 in Houston. After two years I was hooked on country – Hank Williams, Jr.,Dolly is my favorite, Merle Haggard – so many. I learned to two step pretty darn well too. Have to go back for a visit.