John Lennon | John Lennon
Dec.29.2010
Well, sadly, Monday night I finished Keith's book at last. Wow. Did I love that escape for 550 pages or so.
Then, yesterday, I moved on to finally reading that last interview with John Lennon that came out in Rolling Stone this month. It has been sitting in my living room since it arrived in the...
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Dec.23.2010
Samuel Johnson wrote that “When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.” The good doctor wrote that in 1758, long before the conversation of Englishmen was informed by the hyperbolic outrage of London’s present tabloids. Just lately it seems he might amend his phrasing to “their...
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Dec.08.2010
For many years, I referred to Dec. 8, 1980, as the day that a part of me died. The memories are etched in my mind's eye: a series of images that move from belief through full grief in a way that I imagine our elders experienced with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
I was a senior...
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Dec.07.2010
This year immortality has done a number on my ass. A big ass number. My mom. My cousin Nicole. My uncle Earl. My husband's sister. My 24 year old cat. Death and immortality has been a forefront conversation along with creeping very close to being 50.
Monday, December 8th, 1980 that evening...
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Oct.09.2010
Oct. 9 marks what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday - a milestone hard to grasp when the final photo of the man froze him in time at the age of 40, senselessly assassinated 30 years ago this coming December. Now that the compact disc format is threatened with extinction, it could...
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Jan.08.2010
In the documentary “Imagine,” John Lennon comments that his song “Starting Over” was a message to fans his own age in which he aimed to ask them: “Hey, how’re you? Weren’t the Seventies a drag? Let’s hope the Eighties will be better.”
If John had lived on through the Eighties to experience the...
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Dec.08.2009
I woke up a little late this morning, dragged myself out of bed, and then started to work. The news came quickly and not much surprise: As the World Turns was canceled on December 8th, 2009. I instantly thought of John Lennon today of course, and a lyric of his as well: I saw the news today, oh boy...
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Nov.21.2009
Recently, I watched tapes of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's appearances on the Dick Cavett Show.The first one, on September 11, 1971, was notable for being the first television interview John gave in the wake of the Beatles' breakup.
On May 11th of the following year, the pair returned....
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May.01.2009
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
Oct. 1887 – As European powers divide up Asia, France seizes and colonizes Vietnam and the Kingdom of Cambodia. The kingdom of Laos is grabbed and added in 1893, forming French Indochina.
1941-1945 – The U.S. Office of...
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Mar.22.2009
I realized a frightening thing yesterday as I was riding home. My father and I were passing the Turkey Creek area when it hit me that nearly every single car was on the road because of money, one way or another. They were driving either to spend money, make money, or save money. I immediately felt...
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