Donald's Blog
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This old house was only a few blocks from the state Capitol in Madison,
Wisconsin. All the neighborhood cats lived in the basement during the
winter. The house has long since been torn down, but in 1972 there were
AR2ax speakers in the front room, and a lot of good music was heard there. |
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In the 21st century I am just as opinionated as ever,
and I now have an outlet. I shall pontificate here about anything
that catches my fancy; I hope I will not make too great a fool
of myself. You may comment yea or nay about anything on the
site; I may quote you here, or I may not. Send brickbats etc.
to: dmclarke78@icloud.com.
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October 3, 2014Three score and 14 years ago...
Happy Birthday to me.
What shall I do with the absurdity--O heart,
O troubled heart--this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog's tail?
-- W.B. Yeats "The Tower"
I am welderly, thank you.
A liberal is a person whose interests are not at stake at the moment. An intellectual's only stake is in his ideas, and you wouldn't want to do business with someone who has nothing to lose. Conservatives are usually boring. They are all "herds of independent minds" (Harold Rosenberg).
I've been reading Joseph Epstein, whose new collection A Literary Collection is a delight. (But I added the wisecrack about conservatives.)
The packers are here, and I have to go back to work before Ethne hollers at me. But I know she loves me because the birthday card this morning made me swoon.