"When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
-- William Least Heat-Moon
Links:
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue GalEp 220 Flyover Country Liberals
We discuss flyover country, the VW union vote, and how ACA has become the Missouri Compromise of the 21st Century. More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
- Joe the Union Plumber
- Newt Gingrich never disappoints and never misses a meal.
- For the Party of Jefferson Davis, Obamacare is the Missouri Compromise
- The Big New Republican Rebranding Plan...looks remarkably like the old Rebranding Plan
- Watch on Amazon.com: The Loving Story (Loving v Virginia Documentary)
Da' money goes here:
2 comments:
Great show again. I got the 'scribners' question right off, because I remembered this anecdote. (I don't know how true it is).
RAH tried to write 2 books a year, one adult and one juvenile.
He had a handshake deal with the original George Scribner to deliver 1 juvenile a year.
He did this for 19 years, each was accepted.
The twentieth year (George being long retired by this time), his ms was rejected. With a form letter and a comment. Wasn't even signed.
This ticked off RAH so much he quit Scribners and went elsewhere.
The comment was "too militaristic."
Starship Troopers.
As a native of Washington DC I don't know which is worst being considered a 'fly over' bumpkin or one of the local 'little people.' Nothing will brighten your perspective like talking to some 24 year old hot shot working on Capital Hill just off a winning campaign trail.
You know having worked in the Chicago government how organizations like that can sit on a local culture. D.C., is many time worst.
'Breaking Away' starts to get at what it's like to grow up in this town.
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