The DN
1 I love Thursdays.
2 I just do.
3 Wednesdays are meeting days.
4 Always productive.
5 I saw two teachers go loony yesterday.
6 And they didn't have walls closing in on them. I on the other hand stayed cool, calm and collected, as you may well imagine.
7 Personally I found the meeting riveting.
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9 No, SEEEEEEEEERIOUSLY.
10 I don't remember when I've learned so much in so little time. Not so for others.
11 One guy practically ran through the glass on his way out. A cartoony double foot moved him an inch to the left and out the door. He didn't even lose his hat.
12 The other?
13 I think he went to my neighbor's house to learn how to crow.
14 For me, I coulda stayed 'til midnight, but I had things to do, people to see, places to go, see?
15 Me mudder woulda been proud.
17 Anybody lookin'?
18 Moving On, Part One: The guy who went to my neighbor's house left his coffee cup at the meeting.
19 It said this on the side: "I left my coffin for this?"
20 Yeesh. I get the feeling this has bothered him for a while.
21 Moving On, Part Two: I'm stayin' put.
22 Last night I tried watching Come Back, Little Sheba, listening to an old radio show featuring an interview with Jim Garrison of JFK fame, and later in the eve I caught the classic From Here to Eternity.
23 To some, those are just names. To me, it was a trifecta of perfect entertainment.
24 Come Back, Little Sheba I had never seen, amazingly. Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster, unlikely duo. Tear jerker, but I didn't cry.
25 You can't hurt steel, as me old friend and confidant Benito Santiago used to say between tweeks.
26 Back to the entertainment: About two minutes into this 1988 interview with Jim Garrison I got locked in. It was some old radio show putting together an oddball collection of JFK assassination stuff, but rare.
27 In the interview Garrison articulated very much of what came to be Oliver Stone's JFK. Since it was a radio show, it contained not only a long interview with Garrison, but commentary by Stone on the content of that interview. The show also contains a recording of a guy announcing the parade through Dallas live from a few cars behind the motorcade. We've all probably heard the announcer who screams, "Something has gone terribly wrong in the motorcade, I repeat..." and the confusion of that moment. What I didn't know was that the guy announcing it was a few cars behind the motorcade, and that he kept announcing on the way to Parkland Hospital in Dallas!
28 It is frightening and freaky, even in 2013 where freaky seems to be the trend du jour.
29 The live feed draws us immediately into the eye of the assassination. It was like listening to an old radio drama with the exception of the fact that it was a recording of the most famous unsolved murder of the twentieth century.
30 The radio show also surmises that Garrison may have been tricked into going back into the case three years after that fateful day by then Senator Russel Long of Louisiana, who was mafia boss Carlos Marcello's man in Washington and on his payroll. Moving the assassination in the direction of the CIA would seemingly have taken the heat off the Mob, the thinking went. It contends that Wade Boggs, another Marcello payee, also convinced Garrison into going after the CIA at the time. Boggs, by the way, was later appointed by LBJ to be a member of the Warren Commission.
31 This off-beat radio show is a bit of a hodge-podge, but for history fans it is a mini-gold mine. Facts don't appear to be messed with in this interesting post; they just exist without all the hype of single bullets, arguments about lone gunmen (preposterous, as any serious critic knows) and other debates about "conspiracy theories." It is rather a vastly interesting piece I have yet to finish.
32 REALLY obscure stuff, but a lot of fun to listen to, and WAY interesting. It isn't scholarly, but it is an interesting couple of hours. Here is the link; hope it works:
33 Don't be fooled by the word watch. There's a reason there is a question mark on the link.
34 Once again, it isn't scholarly. But it is quite sane, sober, and without a lot of conspiracy theories. It comes off as pretty logical in terms of what probably happened.
35 Lousy source. It's just got such rare things all piled into one or two shows. A lot of stuff I never heard before. If you are interested at all in the 50th anniversary of the assassination, this one works. It is more journalistic than all that phony stuff they're dishing out to everybody lately.
36 I'm pretty much beyond trying to convince people about who did what and when and all that stuff. I figured most stuff out years ago, so this is more like pulling the cork off a dusty vintage and enjoying the story, as tragic as it is.
37 At least there is a great amount of truth, which makes it work.
38 Leave it to TCM though, to complete my trifecta of entertainment last night by trumping that radio show with From Here to Eternity. What a piece. It just now ended with the Columbia fireworks. Remember, I wrote this last night. I'll probably throw some iambic closing comments to in the morning, which if you're reading it, is today. Make sense?
39 I think that's all I have for you today.
40 I am amazed and know not what to say.
41 Enjoy your Thursday; they are blessings.
42 See you again.
43 Peace.
~H~
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