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milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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The event also represents an unprecedented collaborative opportunity for scholars from more than a dozen disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, and business, many of whom have come to identify their work as part of the emerging area of "Dead Studies." This kind of collaboration emphasizes academic rigor and a traditional multi-disciplinary perspective, according to University of South Carolina oral historian Nicholas Meriwether, author of All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon, recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
"Ultimately," says Meriwether, "the Dead phenomenon suggests a new way of looking at yourself, of what we are capable of in a modern western society that appears increasingly fragmented, media-driven, manipulated and alienating...In an era in which academics are increasingly aware of the need to collaborate across disciplinary lines, a topic with as broad-based an appeal as the Dead phenomenon should be fascinating--and welcome."
Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture and Memory at UMass Amherst It's a matter of perspective and what you want out of life. I don't want to be that narrow to not see beauty where beauty is regardless of it's so called.... pedigree.
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OT: Thanks for the reminder; I almost missed Dylan's radio show. The man is an amazing musicologist. My BIL won't listen to it because "he plays weird sh*t." Dylan's explanation is that he doesn't want to play music everyone has heard; he wants to play the stuff you haven't heard but ought to. Everything from Memphis Minnie to Tom Waits.
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Betty’s cleaning’ house for the very last time
Betty’s bein’ bad
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Which reminds me of another distinctly American piece of culture.
JOHNNY CASH.
In his eulogy Bob Dylan said that "Johnny Cash was the North Star".
Quite fitting.
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Late, late, too late to read all 12 plus pages, at the risk of being redundant may I add Bluegrass (though we stole it from our Irish brothers and sisters), Country and Western, Dixieland, Zydeco and one more, Jolie Blon by Jo-el Sonnier - which is, well, if you don't like real C&W you won't like this Zydeco song, skip it; West Coast IPA (Laugh, laugh you wastrels! England created IPA and California, Washington and most especially Oregon created a style of IPA that transcends all IPAs the world over); and TV preaching. I'm serious. Look, I hate TV preaching as much as I hate ballet, ice skating, choral singing, bars in Salt Lake City, US Airways, the BCS, snow, mutton, ties (especially bow-ties; I don't own a feckin tie), family reunions, oyster stew, anything except sleep before 10.00 AM, sweet cornbread, small talk at forced gatherings, ANYONE who rings my doorbell, vodka, people who hate France, the mistreatment of animals - including hunting, Washington DC, and marching bands, however, TV preaching is now an art form and that cannot be denied.
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Love your style, SM! I love zydeco (truly I do...fascinated by it) but I love ballet too. Sorry can't help it...dancin is dancin and dancin is good. ![[Linked Image from i239.photobucket.com]](http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/melofga/1243655670.gif) I don't own a tie either and anymore panty hose. My daughter was in marching band....so well. You know. I'm not up on tv preachin....so I'll take your word for it.
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Yikes! How could I have not included Clifton Chenier? Sorry.
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Computer problems. Can't get the youtubes yet... 
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England created IPA and California, Washington and most especially Oregon created a style of IPA that transcends all IPAs the world over) Well I am proud and happy you recognize the deliciousness of Oregon IPA’s. They have taken the malts and especially the hops to a new level. Bridgeport out of Portland makes the best large produced IPA, bottles and draft IMO but there are many smaller players in Oregon that produce fine quaffing IPA’s. Ninkasi in good ol Eugene puts out something called Tricerahops Double IPA that will knock your beer moustache off with double everything and comes in at 8.8% alc/vol. An artform in itself. Enough said.
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i hate....marching bands, There you--and I-- go again! Check out these guys (and gals) from, you guessed it, Oregon---March Fourth Marching Band. They just might change forever your opinions on marching bands. March Fourth Band
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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