Delurking to note that I live in Colorado and did the early voting thing a couple of weeks ago. Now all that's left is to sit, wait, and hope Obama wins. And try to distract myself.
I already did vote. Last week, actually. And I got to do it on a paper ballot. And it's all thanks to... early voting! (insert cheesy Hanna-Barbera music sting here) Good luck to all of you who have to futz with electronic voting.
Martyn and Stefan, thank you (for #90, #124, and #134). I try not to get frightened, but it happens anyway, from time to time. It's nice to get a shot in the arm.
You can't let these people scare you. Fear is their best weapon. Mock them, deride them, relentlessly point out their mistakes (and don't forget to vote against them, either).
Wallowing in despair is no good. I'm sure it only heartens the bastards.
I rarely ever come out to play here, so to speak; I don't have much to offer, and I am content to lurk.
I never met John M. Ford, and (though I've read "How Much For Just The Planet?," and gotten a lot of good laughs from it) knew him best from his posts here. There were always worth tracking down and reading. The world was always just that little bit better with him in it.
I saw the news over at the Whatever, and when I saw "Mike Ford," being terminally naive, I thought, oh, it can't be that John M. Ford, it's a different Ford. Naive, and stupid, and I wish those qualities could win the day. Not that anyone else should die, but that he should still be here.
And even when I came here, and saw that it was, indeed, "that" John M. Ford, it didn't really hit me. Until I read through this thread... which is what finally got me crying.
I'm so sorry for all of you who knew him well. I only knew words on a page and words on a screen, and I still feel as if I've lost a friend.
Alas, and alack.
This is one of my favorite blogs, and the Beatles are one of my favorite bands. Unfortunately, and I admit to being afraid to admit this, I think "Revolver" is actually as overrated today as "Sgt. Pepper" was in its time. Don't get me wrong, I love "Revolver," but it isn't better to these ears than "Pet Sounds," "Forever Changes," the first Velvets LP, or "Blonde On Blonde," just to name a few. Of course, my favorite Beatles elpee is the White Album, so go figure.
Patrick, the "Love" show is actually a remix, or, to be more accurate, it's all mash-ups, done by Giles Martin (Sir George's son) under his Dad's supervision. Some are more radical than others, but it's not a straight remastering.
TexAnne & Co.: About "Run For Your Life;" evidence that Lennon (and it was a Lennon song, with little if any McCartney input) regarded it as a throwaway and a joke comes from the fact that the infamous "I'd rather see you dead..." lines come directly from Elvis Presley's version of "Baby, Let's Play House," which Elvis had gotten from one of the three or four blues records that actually form the basis of THAT song. (Phew. Yes, I too am a music geek, but proud of it.)
The line is even more blatantly out of place and hard to take seriously in Elvis's song, since he surrounded it with pre-Buddy Holly hiccuping and the immortal lines, "You may buy a pink Cadillac/But don't you be nobody's fool," which was his own adlib during recording (it doesn't come from any of the versions of the song that were thrown together to make this one). If anything, Elvis is aiming most of the criticism at himself here. Doesn't make the dinosaurian sexism any nicer, but I don't think Elvis meant it seriously any more than John did. It's in poor taste, but I think "Under My Thumb" is a lot worse.
OK, I'm done geeking here. Intelligent discussion can resume now!
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