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Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

Thanks Dave, this is a wonderful day for me. I never thought I would live to be this age. My chances were not good. Mary Clare and I share the same birthdate, both born at Mt. Carmel Hospital. I wonder if our mothers might have been in the same labor room?    

By the way Jeff and I will be having dinner tonight at The Bluffton Room. I really love that restaurant 😍

David Mitchell

Who'da thunk we'd ever get to be this young?

Mark Schweickart

Dave -- Your comment Who'da thunk we'd ever get to be this young? and your Rod Stewart song post, remind me of two Bob Dylan things worth remembering: One is a couple of my favorite lines from his song My Back Pages :

Good and bad, I defined these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now

At least, I like to think this is true. 

The second is that Rod Stewart's upbeat version of Dylan's song may be more appropriate as a birthday greeting for Mary Ann and Mary Clare (Happy Birthday, you two) but I much prefer Dylan's slower version that really lets one savor the lyrics:

James Hamilton, M. D.

Mark and Dave, I think the words to John Denver's "Sweet, Sweet Surrender" perhaps describe some of our classmate's lives and current statuses better than "Forever Young". It did for some times in mine.

 But I may be wrong...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGxwZHZ3ZVU

"Some forgotten highway..."

"Like a fish in the water..."

"Like a bird in the air"

Jim

David Mitchell

Oh man, ya gotta love this. I went to a You Tube Music email contest and a "Class Forum" broke out!

Yup Mark love those lines too.  "So much older then......

David Mitchell

Jim,

How about    "Like a Storm In the Desert"

James Hamilton, M. D.

Timothy Lavelle

Jim, 

Once again your photos of the fish that appears to be flying very low and the lone bird in a sky filled with promise are really enjoyable. I don't know why "the road less travelled" picture is so compelling to me. It's like being very young, or maybe getting on in age too, and seing a very good friend start off on a journey alone...you just want to throw on some old clothes, fire up the ride and catch up quickly  cause there just might be adventure right around that bend. I never saw a hidden bend I didn't like...unless it included panicked breaking! Great shots.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Frank Ganley

The best”my back pages “ is the byrds rendition. The byrds seem to find a way to play a lot of dylan songs better than anyone. Of course buffalo springfield, the byrds and crosby nash and young are all alumina of all these bands. The great thing of “ my generation is it took music (rock $ roll) to a level that earlier music couldn’t reach as mist music till the english invasion because of primarily a 3 chord song. Now todays music is good and some groups are somewhat back to the same 3 chords maybe 4. 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Dave,

As said, I have no "Like a storm in the desert" photos but here is one that fits the lines "There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in...". For 100 points, what JD song contains that line?

Jim

David Mitchell

"Back Home Again" - another favorite from those night at Red Rocks.

But hey Jim, do you know any Procul Harum?

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Frank,

Still love the "Byrds"

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Maybe you need a  "whiter angle" lens. 

Michael McLeod

Frank:

Roger McGuinn/Tom Petty's "King of the Hill" 

Michael McLeod

While we are on a music-nostalgia riff here is a press release I just got. Sounds a bit spooky but damn if I don't think I will go. Loved that man. One of the giants. Three octave of amazingness.

Mark Schweickart

Anyone nostalgic for the Bush-Cheney years. Here's a song I wrote back then in collaboration with my son, Derek. He had this guitar line running through his head and recorded it for me. I then added lyrics and my vocal to it. I had just read Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine and was starting Jeremy Scahilll’s Blackwater so this song was inspired by both and was written during the height of the Iraq madness. I couldn’t help but wonder what Woody Guthrie might have thought.

I know we are trying to to keep our political views to ourselves these days, but since this harkens back to about fifteen years ago, I thought maybe I could slip this in without raising too many hackles.

Michael McLeod

Interesting point you raise, Mark.

I think there may be a phenomenon we could call time-lag consensus. An event happens. The years pass by. Annversaries are observed and the event is revived and analyzed. People are less inclined to get riled up about it because it is, after all, old news, not part of a daily, amygdala-baiting bombardment, and revelations and various developments may provide new insights on the event - or deceptions by politicians since retired or deceased. All that conspires to make it more likely that people will argue less and agree more from a distant perspective. Can't imagine people think Vietnam was a good idea at this point. Hopefully most understand that neither was Iraq. Now let's see if I get in trouble for saying so. 

David Mitchell

Trouble?

Trouble?

Trouble?

Trouble?

Sounds like you be talkin' bout a "Pool Hall".

Yes Sir, right here in River City!

Timothy Lavelle

Dave, if you're gonna smoke that shit, you have to remember to pass it.

Standing here in 2028 and looking back on the 2020 elections, I am sad to report that the Dems desperate last minute entry, Omarosa, went down to defeat, carrying only the State of Disbelief...and that by a bare margin. 

I got yer trouble!

David Mitchell

Tim,

You are cracking me up. This is more fun than the showers in basic training.

There!  I said something in less than a paragraph!

Michael McLeod

Wow thanks for the trip on the way-back machine Dave. I remember how in basic training the plumbing was such that if somebody flushed a toilet all the cold water went away for a few seconds. So every shower you took involved the chance that you would be scalded to death. You learned to stay alert, ready to jump away from the boiling stream of water. We assumed it was part of the training. Nobody had the nerve to complain.

Frank Ganley

Mark love the music, lyrics definitely a flash back 15 20 years with bush 41 and cheney, confusing times and startling  at the same time. Are there, no way, yesthere are, no theres no proof. History is always the best check  and time will prove always look back at what happened if its right or wrong. Still i say you got leon redbone down just need that deep south accent

Tim since Dave is of the clinton group who has never inhaled , proper manners in what to do with it after you’ve almost hotboxed it. Don’t bogart that joint, pass it in. 

David Mitchell

Frank and Tim,

I am grateful for such caring advice. I now feel sufficiently admonished.

After all, what are friends for anyway?

Timothy Lavelle

Dave,

With friends like Frank, you'll never need advice on how to add two plus two and come up with five.

On the truthful side, it is a wonder of the world how guys like Frank and I ever got thru life successfully.

By the way, the line is, "Don't Bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to ME." Emphasis on the Me part there. I think it was Mark Sweickhardt who first sang that tune in Easy Rider? Mark, someday I will spell your name right.