"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:
- 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:
Great show again. I got the 'scribners' question right off, because I remembered this anecdote. (I don't know how true it is).
ReplyDeleteRAH 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.
ReplyDeleteYou 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.