My World and Welcome to It
T his post was last updated at 3:15 PM, Wednesday, April 2. Latest post is “Things that want Me to Write about Them. ” NEW: Volume II of “ The Best Book on the Trump Phenomenon ” has been added in to the original 2020 post. This will be a pinned post in perpetuity, but it will be updated continuously, just like all of our lives. The title — “My World and Welcome to It” — is stolen happily from James Thurber, who is known as a humorist, unabashedly untrained cartoonist, and dog lover. He was also subject to melancholy, a drinker of note, and something of an outsider (in his own damaged eyes at least) as an Ohioan, born and educated, who became a fixture in the glamorous Algonquin Roundtable of Manhattan writers and playwrights. I can relate to all of that but the fame and the lifelong journey to blindness. I believe he was likely the best writer of the gang that gathered in the Algonquin Hotel in the 1930s, and I made my own pilgrimage there once in my youth to ...
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Away. Long and boring story of little interest. But I am glad to be back and see how things have been and read what you've had to say since I was away.
We'll still disagree on Pink Floyd and agree on the Rolling Stones, and I am still very much interested in your unique perspectives on the world.
Thanx for sharing all that you do.
-- David M. McLean
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