March 29, 2010
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The Daily News
1 So I got a Twitter...2 STRANGE stuff, to be sure.
3 Ah, I guess that's what all of us are doin'.
4 Trying to keep up with the times can render one relatively useless.
5 Oh.
6 M'bad.
7 It does beg the question though: What the heck are ANY of us tryin' to find?
8 Somebody knows all the answers, I can tellya that much.
9 To me, it's Joe the Bear.
10 To you?
11 Hope you get what you really want in "The Search".
12 My new label for it. Whatever it is we all REALLY want could be called simply "The Search".
13 "The Search". Ah, I suppose it works. It's gotta have a name. Why not?
14 Take it home and spin it around.
15 Moving on, Part the First: Yesterday I was coaxed into going to Kohl's, this Mervyn's clone.
16 Now, my whole thing about Mervyn's has always been that it was a chick store.
17 All apologies for the sexist tone, but you know what I mean.
18 ANYWAYZ...I'll complete that one at the end of all this folderol.
19 Moving on, Part the Second: The entire deal about Twitter and all the rest seems to render the DN reasonably idiotic.
20 Ah, who cares?
21 The DN has little to do with me, except to say that it is some simple channeling.
22 I write whatever birds fly into my frabjous mind and somehow find themselves perching here somewhere, doing some breathing exercises, and then singin'!
23 There isn't much ANY of us can do about it.
24 But I am truly a glorified channeler. Or perhaps unglorified is more like it.
25 Dear God. Everyone seems to say that now. Dear God. Like, where's the rest of the letter? I used to say that a lot. It was called praying. Still do, but I dial in with other methods. And I usually try to send thoughts and requests to help family and friends. Dear God...
26 Moving on, Part the Third: So...here's a pretty fun rock 'n' roll bit.
27 I heard on some radio station or other that Mick Taylor, a major former guitarist with the Rolling Stones is back in studio with the boys, who are as we speak working on a re-release of their epic Exile on Main Street album, in which Mick the Second played amazing guitar pieces, and was a major playuh with the band.
28 To mainstreamers, Mick the Second brought it in songs like Sympathy for the Devil, and a number of other classic tunes, not the least of which were his exchanges with the immortal Keith Richard (s) on some wonderful bootlegs of Jumpin' Jack Flash, to be specific, the live version of Jumpin' Jack Flash they played "back-in-the-day" at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
29 Old?
30 Well, heck yeah dude! Music is immortal, one of the finest arts out there, and the jam at the end of that is up there with the greatest lead guitar exchanges in rock history.
31 Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas; Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas!
32 Guitars flying through the air and pumping everybody with the notion that life does indeed break our hearts, tear us apart, but really, it's all right, now in fact it's a gas...
33 But it's all right.
34 I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas, gas, gas!!!!
35 Still is. Thanks to the Micks for telling the world what it's all about.
36 It's a gas, gas, gas!
37 Welcome back, Mick the Second!!!!
38 Oh my, oh my, oh my.
39 Anyway, that's in the works, and I for one look forward to it, as should anybody with any respect for the immortal Rolling Stones.
40 Moving on, Part the Third: My Twitter, for those of you who believe in such nonsense, is gfharrington. I'd LOVE to get some Tweets from you, haha!
41 I jokingly said that I am willing to let everybody know when I cut my toenails, but isn't that just where we are in terms of friendships and communications?
42 'Tis a dying art, dont'cha know. So far Twitter seems like a bust. I could see losing interest really quickly. Facebook I'm okay with, but never understood. My Space seems the same thing. Mine's dying on the vine. Going for a walk and enjoying someone's company seems to be obsolete. We're becoming more and more alienated the more we keep in touch. It's all become so weird, honestly.
43 Moving on, Part the Fourth: So I went to this store called Kohl's yesterday, in my search for the perfect clothes...
44 I realized what I ALWAYS realize, and that is this: at my age, I no longer want to look good; I just want to avoid looking bad.
45 So I thought, really that it was time not to buy outward clothing, but underthings.
46 I found a pair of boxers that I felt would be as understated as a man could get, searched and searched, and finally found some that were just perfect. I KNOW, I KNOW. TMI. To be sure.
47 This search has gone on for years, and FINALLY I found what worked.
48 They were $12 a pair!
49 That's $6.00 a leg, on my ledgers! If I added three pairs of sox and a few T-shirts, it's fifty bucks just to get started. Outrageous, but we all allow it. The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in the stores, but in ourselves that we can't afford underthings...
50 ; ) <--------cool sideways winky guy who is the only one amused.
51 I'm goin' now.
52 Hope ya have a happenin' week. I missed a WHOLE buncha y'allz who were home this past Spring Break, but I do recognize that you have things going on.
53 Sad I missed you, or maybe even that I never got to chill with you, but like everybody else, I'm busy these days.
54 So we're off the week after Easter.
55 Hope to see some of you then!
56 I'd better bow out gracefully now, because this is arguably the longest DN in recorded history.
57 I don't care.
58 I love you all, everything.
59 Live life, love life.
60 Fly low.
61 Peace.
~H~
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