Advice on what to listen to...

Never Let Me Go by Aretha Franklin.

My mother asked me if I had heard the new cover version of Prince's "Kiss" done by Maroon 5.
I said that I had not, but that I probably would not like it.
Then I said, "Prince reigns."

Ha ha.

Georgia told me that there are 3000 things in the world.
She told me that a world plus a world equals 6000.

Van Morrison asked for "dreams that never end."
The true nightmare is a dream that can't come true.
I awake from such a dream and feel my heart being carved into a square, which is a totally useless shape for a heart.

"Many men have loved the bells

you fastened to the rein,
and everyone who wanted you

they found what they will always want again.
Your beauty lost to you yourself
just as it was lost to them.

Oh take this longing from my tongue,
whatever useless things these hands have done.
Let me see your beauty broken down
like you would do for one you love.

Your body like a searchlight
my poverty revealed,
I would like to try your charity
until you cry, 'Now you must try my greed.'
And everything depends upon
how near you sleep to me.

Just take this longing from my tongue
all the lonely things my hands have done.
Let me see your beauty broken down
like you would do for one your love.

Hungry as an archway
through which the troops have passed,
I stand in ruins behind you,
with your winter clothes, your broken sandal straps.
I love to see you naked over there
especially from the back.

Oh take this longing from my tongue,
all the useless things my hands have done,
untie for me your hired blue gown,
like you would do for one that you love.

You're faithful to the better man,
I'm afraid that he left.
So let me judge your love affair
in this very room where I have sentenced mine to death.
I'll even wear these old laurel leaves
that he's shaken from his head.

Just take this longing from my tongue,
all the useless things my hands have done,
let me see your beauty broken down,
like you would do for one you love.
Like you would do for one you love."

– Leonard Cohen

Je ne parle pas français, mais...

Really?

"Gay community: stop hijacking the civil rights movement!" - Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., former President of the NAACP Iowa/Nebraska conference

Really.

Somewhere in the Republic of Ireland, a library book, checked out in 1932, was returned to its library a few days ago.

In a word: quaint.

I'm back in the U.S.A.

It'd be harder to hop a dandelion than it would be to write a good script for Hollywood.