Daily Ramblings:
Trouble In Mind ...01/17/2005 10:15:06 am
The NY Daily News hereby sets expectations about Martin Scorsese's upcoming "American Masters" bio on Dylan upside down. This film has been getting mentions in the press for about 2 years. It was always reported like way back here by the BBC that, in the course of making it, Scorsese was conducting an extensive interview with Dylan. It was said he "has been granted full access to the famously media-shy singer."
Now in the Daily News:
Director Martin Scorsese has been working for two years on the upcoming two-part PBS "American Masters" biography of Bob Dylan - and still hasn't had any contact with him.
"I'd not like to deal with the man directly," Scorsese told members of the Television Critics Association over the weekend. "I'd like to find the story and then play it out the way I think it's right. ... It's better I just deal with the material."
It turns out that Dylan's manager Jeff Rosen interviewed Dylan instead, for "10 hours," - footage that may or may not be used in whatever way Scorsese thinks fit.
Now, I know that it's Scorsese's right to make whatever film he wants, and there's something to be said for independence of vision, etc, etc. He's certainly made some very fine films. However, in dealing with Dylan's early career, up to 1966 or so - as this film is said to do - there is no doubt that the politics of the time will enter into the mix. A brief example of Martin Scorsese's politics can be found in this Reuters story from January 2003, quoting him on the Iraq war:
"One hopes that this kind of war can be done diplomatically, with intelligence rather than wiping out a lot of innocent civilians," Scorsese told BBC radio. ...
"There are a lot of Americans who also feel that a lot of this (war talk) is economic," he said in London where he attended the premier of "Gangs." "Part of this has to do with the oil."
Scorsese also appeared to suggest that the U.S. was heavy-handed in the way it approached other cultures.
"I think it really has to come down to respecting how other people live," he said. "There's got to be ways this can be worked out diplomatically, there simply has to be."
(I would allow that we fell a little short in terms of respecting how Uday, Qusay and Saddam lived, and might have been a bit heavy handed with regard to their culture of mass rape, torture and murder.)
It will need to be borne in mind then that despite the fact that Dylan gave Scorsese great freedom with regard to using archived material, this is not in fact an "authorized" film. Scorsese himself is making it quite clear that he is determined to plow his own course. It is a fact that Dylan and Dylan's people have been very flexible in allowing people to use material to give their own perspective on his body of work. Witness one of the first posts on this website with a fairly lengthy list of doings, including the weird Todd Haynes project. With all the books that come out about Bob all the time, when was the last time you heard of him suing over one? He obviously has the attitude that it's better to just let it all go and add up to one big chaotic whole. "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie," after all.
As written here somewhere before, the Left always tries to reclaim Dylan for themselves after a nasty shock (like his refusal to come out against the Vietnam War, or his Gospel music). So, will Scorsese's movie be the first big step by the Left to reclaim Dylan's work after the rather disappointing political angles that emerged in Chronicles?
Here's betting at least that Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater will not be presented as Dylan's favorite politician.
First He's In The Background, Then He's In The Front ...01/16/2005 04:51:22 pm
The Debkafile website posts some dubious "intelligence" type stories at times, but I think they can be relied upon for the following succinct summary of events since the election of the new Chairman of the Palestinian Authority:
In six days since Abbas elected, 9 Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists in and around Gaza Strip – 3 Sderot citizens; 30 missiles and mortar shells struck Gush Katif, 6 Western Negev. Total of 35 shooting attacks, 13 bombs.
Ring Them Bells ...01/16/2005 03:29:58 pm
I posted this in a comments section, but why not give it more exposure? This is a low-resolution audio clip of a recording from the 1930s called "Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family In Texas." Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples do a funny verbal routine on their recording of Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking, from 2003's Gotta Serve Somebody album. This is clearly what they were thinking of when they did it. It still makes me laugh whenever I listen to the Dylan/Staples version - picturing Mavis climbing up the hill in Malibu to Dylan's eccentric abode.
Mavis: My goodness Bobby, you got a nice place here.
Bob: Welcome to California, Mavis.
Mavis: Thank you much. Woah, you got a nice view.
Bob: Yeah it is. You can sit on this porch and look right straight into Hawaii.
As visitor "Pepe" pointed out, those original Jimmie Rodgers/Carter Family recording are available "on very inexpensive and well transferred box sets on the British JSP label."
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Speaking of that Gotta Serve Somebody album, it is the Rev. Rance Allen who sings When He Returns on there. He sings it with a lot of passion, no less that Bob himself on what is a rather unique vocal performance from Slow Train Coming. The Rev. Allen has just been nominated for a Grammy for "Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album." Good luck to him. (If you ask me the Grammys are badly in need of a lot fewer categories and a lot better voters, but who really cares anyway?)
When the Rev. Allen recorded that song of Dylan's, he made the following comments:
The writer of "When He Returns" has to have had a real experience with the Lord. Because those kind of lyrics do not come up out of just, you know, singing and writing. Some things come that way, but there are other things that have to come through the heart, through the soul, through some sort of a meeting that you've had, a coming together that you've had with the Lord. It's powerful stuff, powerful stuff.
This whole country was built upon principles of God. And then for us, as a country, to turn away, and go as far as we've gone, it's nothing but the story of the prodigal son all over again in the l5th chapter of Luke. And that prodigal son found out that things only got worse. As a matter of fact, Dylan said He is the only one that can reduce me to tears. And if you read the story of the prodigal son he was reduced to tears, getting ready to eat from the food that he was feeding the swine. So, he had to pick himself up. The Bible says "Come to himself," which means that when you have to come to yourself you're not yourself.
And we're living in a world today that is really not itself. Things are not going to progress anymore unless people make that turn, come back to the Lord, and sit patiently enjoying the time that he's gone, but anticipatorily waiting for him to return. That's the way I live my life. That's why I can sing the song with the fervor that I did. I feel that there's more to singing than just knowing how to hit different notes. When you sing for the Lord the power to sing comes from the Lord. The effect of your singing comes through the Lord. That's what we call anointing.
Amen, Reverend!
Oh, Sister ...01/16/2005 08:46:35 am
More Mavis. Now she's getting asked about Dylan in every interview. From the Star Tribune (via a link this morning on that Norwegian site):
"Oh, man, it's out now. People started asking me. It was on the Internet that we had courted, so when I was asked, I didn't deny it. I don't want to put Bobby's business on the street. But it was before he was married. Bobby doesn't mind. We're older now. We had our time. That was the great love I lost, I think."
When she says "it was on the Internet," obviously she's referring to RightWingBob.com. Thanks for the shout-out, Mavis.
2nd Time Around ...01/15/2005 04:41:27 pm
A good time for a Right Wing Bob flashback. If Dylan had any secret love, it was assuredly Mavis Staples, as covered in this space back here. The story brought a tear to my eye at the time, and I continue to find it genuinely poignant. All this other stuff is just the usual dirt of gossip.
4th Time Around ...01/14/2005 10:03:05 pm
What is it about this week? Another chanteuse now reports that Dylan wanted her, but she rejected him, or something like that. In this case Marianne Faithfull (see below The News Is Out for previous similar story).
She says, "We were on tour together and he was at the typewriter and I dared to ask, 'What are you writing?' He gave me a burning look and said, 'A poem. About you.' I told him I was pregnant with Nicholas and about to get married and he tore it up.
"But we're still close friends - probably closer than we would have been if we did (it.)"So the headline is "Faithfull grew closer to Dylan by spurning sex." I don't know that there's anything interesting about this stuff - maybe it's just the fact that people make headlines out of it that is interesting. I mean, it's 40 year old gossip about people who are now in their 60s. And it's not even gossip about something that happened. It's gossip about something that didn't happen. It may even be about something that didn't didn't happen.
What next? I guess Twiggy will come out and say that Dylan cornered her in Hyde Park and said that he wrote Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 for her. She told him she was in love with Ringo Starr and left him in the lurch. Then he went after Petula Clark, inviting her up to his hotel room to play From A Buick 6 to her on his harmonium. She thought he was sweet but a little too pale and sickly-like, so she escaped into the arms of healthy he-man Donovan.
I don't know - it's a sad litany. Let's hope next week's news is better for Dylan and the rest of us.
Turkey Chase ...01/14/2005 11:06:17 am
Seethe, if you will, as you read this summary by Charles Krauthammer of the despicable CBS situation, which has now graduated to a huge obfuscation by the gutless review panel, which found no political bias (tks to Lorenzo for link).
Did Mapes and Rather devote a fraction of the resources they gave this story to a real scandal, such as the oil-for-food scandal at the United Nations, or contrary partisan political charges, such as those brought by the Swift boat vets against John Kerry? On the United Nations, no interest. On Kerry, what CBS did do was ad hominem investigative stories on the Swift boat veterans themselves, rather than an examination of the charges. Do you perceive a direction to these inclinations?
And then let it all out with some laughter as you read Iowahawk's latest Inspector Dan Rather mystery. Very inside-the-blogway humor, but very humorous.
"Rather," he bellowed, "The Guard letters were on Starbucks stationery, and originally discovered in the trunk of Mary's '99 Hundai. Military officers do not address each other as 'Dude' and 'Bro.' Mary FedExed them to Terry McAuliffe six times for spell checking."
"No speaky Esperanto, Commissioner! What's your angle?"
"You ran the story seven days before contacting document experts, and when you did, they were recruited from a methadone clinic. You spent $47,000 of network money on a schizophrenic man who said he could build a steam-powered word processor and a time machine."
I planted my hands on the desk, and leaned over into Thornburgh's face.
"I see where this is all going, Commissioner. You're in on it too! You're just going to sit there and take it when there is a criminal in high office who stole over 20 XBox systems from Texas National Guard!"
"That's enough, Rather," he growled. "Turn in your microphone. You're suspended."
"Too late Thornburgh. I'm suspending myself, at full pay."
It's very good stuff.
It Swears ...01/13/2005 10:10:12 pm
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Reason For This Website # 247 ...01/13/2005 08:44:48 pm
In this round-up of musical happenings during 2004, the writer (by the name of Michael Burbo) talks about how politics and the war played such a big role on the music scene this past year. One of his examples? Guess.
Bob Dylan even dusted off the seldom-performed "Masters of War" for an election night performance, leaving more than one audience member wondering if it was treasonous to wish aloud for the death of a president.
The "seldom-performed" Masters Of War? I don't know that it's ever been far from Dylan's set lists. Doing a search at http://db.dylantree.com/ yields 744 performances, and their data only goes as far as spring of 2003. Scrolling through the results will show you that 1978 was a big year for the song (Dylan was probably incensed over the Tanzania/Uganda war). 1994 and 1995 also featured many performances - was that when President Clinton was using the iron fist of the American military in Haiti? I can't remember, but naturally Dylan only sings it when there's something happening in the news that he wants to comment on. It's how he works out all his set lists. People over at the Dylan Pool would do well to figure that into their guesses.
Dylan also sang It's All Over Now Baby Blue at that gig on November 2nd. I guess we know who he was singing that for.
The News Is Out ...01/13/2005 11:27:05 am
Moving right along, there's a story in the Telegraph today (reg. required I believe) on the singer Françoise Hardy, with whom I am not particularly familiar. The story is ostensibly inspired by the release of her new album, but the headline given to it by the editor is "Kiss Me Hardy, Said Dylan." This based on her reminiscing, two thirds down, about some mid-'60s romancing.
... She had boyfriends by now, too. But it wasn't until Mick Jagger described her as his ideal woman that she thought of herself as attractive. Bob Dylan had shown interest, too, and honoured her in a poem scribbled on a record sleeve. He needn't have bothered.
"I had no interest in him as a man, only as an artist," she says. "He took me to his hotel room after inviting me to a show in Paris, and played me two tracks he hadn't yet released, I Want You and Just Like a Woman, but he wasn't a very attractive man, and didn't seem well in himself. Jagger was different. He is someone I could really have fallen for. Unfortunately, he was with Chrissie Shrimpton at the time."
Nothing there about Dylan trying to kiss her - obviously he could have just been playing new songs to an appreciative fellow performer. Not that it's at all significant. It does provide the headline, though. As for her saying that Dylan "didn't seem well in himself" and her preference by contrast for Mick Jagger ... well, no comment.
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Also in the online Telegraph, though originally in People magazine, is this reference to Dubya's fine taste in music (of-course the writer makes it all smarmy):
Blame it on the boogie
With his blousons and assiduously pressed jeans, few of us could ever have doubted the style credentials of George W Bush. So it comes as no surprise to see him waxing lyrical about the trendy iPod in an interview with People magazine.
"I use it mainly for when I go out and ride my mountain bike," says Dubya. "I crank it up. Van Morrison and Linda Gail Lewis are on there. You Win Again is a great album, by the way." Spy can only imagine the headache this unauthorised endorsement has caused iPod's branding division.
"You Win Again," indeed. A fit serenade for the Prez. (Thanks to Rich for tip on this.)
Make You Feel My Love ...01/12/2005 11:01:25 am
A shout-out to a couple of fellows who have linked to my site recently: David Holzel, who re-imagines the Dylan/60 Minutes interview in this amusing article, and also a mysterious live journal under the name of fordmadoxfraud. Hope your servers are well oiled and the bandwidth ain't costing you too much, guys, 'cos here come the hits!
Johnny's In The Basement ...01/12/2005 09:58:17 am
In Chronicles, Dylan writes (not warmly) about the Weathermen, who took their name from a line in Subterranean Homesick Blues. That link is unfortunately forever present, almost always brought up when the group's deeds are written about. As here, in this story on a church in Illinois that was ultimately destroyed in part by a clash between the left wing activists who sympathized with that group and normal churchgoers who just wanted, well, to go to church.
... Having enjoyed a period of growth and optimism in the 1950s, when membership hit a high of 1,700, the 1960s brought a new, younger brand of liberal pastors who rattled conservatives by pushing for social activism. ...
... With the congregation split over the war, tension rose as the new pastors led marches, invited long-haired seminary students to teach Sunday school and found creative, nontraditional ways to lead services. ...
Nelson, now retired and living in Indiana, made the decision to allow members of Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, to spend two nights in the church. He recalled wrestling with the decision, feeling that the church could not turn its back on the nation's youth, who opposed a war that many considered unjust.
Several United Methodist ministers in Evanston sympathized with the protesters, although they did not advocate violence, Nelson said.
"We were really a polarized society over the war with Vietnam," Nelson said. "Many of us felt it was a war of futility."
But the protesters misrepresented themselves, said Nelson, 71. "They told us they were the nonviolent group," he said.
Nelson quickly found out that he had sheltered the Weathermen, a splinter group of the SDS that advocated violence to "bring the war home." The protesters also stayed at two other United Methodist churches and at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, all in Evanston.
"We had no idea what we were in for," said Don Baker, 59, of Evanston, who was a Garrett Seminary student who helped coordinate the arrival of SDS members. Today he heads a social service agency for youth.
"These were leather jackets, combat boots, chains and nightsticks. Wild talk_heading-into-the-street kind of talk. They were barricading doors. We were freaking out. This was not what anybody had in mind," he said.
Among the people being "sheltered" were:
... Mark Rudd, Angela Davis and Brian Flanagan, all notorious for their later exploits with the Weathermen, said Brotheridge. The group, named after the Bob Dylan song lyrics, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," later bombed public targets including the U.S. Capitol, police and prison buildings.
The police came to arrest the Weathermen, in what became a violent and bloody clash. Divisions dating back to those events continued to take their toll over the years.
Today, the 92-year-old church has shut its doors. A sign advertising that the building at 2123 Harrison St. will be auctioned Feb. 15 has churned up memories of that 1969 event, which former ministers and parishioners agree was the flash point that fueled a painful decline from which Covenant would never recover.
In Chronicles, Dylan's mention of the Weathermen comes amidst a list of what he considered hopeful indications back around 1970 that his unwanted status as leader of the counterculture was eroding:
Even the Russian newspaper Pravda had called me a money hungry capitalist. Even the Weathermen, a notorious group who made homemade bombs in basements to blow up public buildings, who had taken their name from a line in one of my songs, had recently changed their name from the Weathermen to the Weather Undergound. I was losing all kinds of credibility.
However, some marriages are forever, whether you like it or not, and it's no doubt true that someone will write something on the 1960s and the Weathermen fifty years from now, and it will be said yet again that they took their name from a Bob Dylan song. It's just important that it also be remembered that though they took it, Dylan didn't give it to them.
(Talkin' John Birch) Paranoid Blues ...01/10/2005 05:08:16 pm
So the long awaited report on CBS News' clownish attempt to derail President Bush's reelection is released today (here in Adobe). Dan Rather takes the day off, and Little Green Footballs (one of the key blogs that brought the forgery to wide attention) is strangely out of commission. Coincidence? Yeah, sure, and Bob Dylan is my uncle.
Dylan To Jong: "You're way wrong!" ...01/09/2005 12:15:28 pm
Kim Jong Il doesn't like long hair. North Korean media have been running a campaign exhorting citizens, male in particular, to keep their hair short, for reasons of "hygiene and health."
Hair is a "very important issue that shows the people's cultural standards and mental and moral state", argues Minju Choson, a government daily.
But this is not just about appearances. North Korean scientists, already famed for their steady development of many miracle cures, have put a lot of time into studying the issue of long versus short hair, and have come up with some startling findings. Long hair produces "negative effects on human intelligence development." Specifically, it "consumes a great deal of nutrition," and so it can steal energy from the brain.
Well, in a country where nutrition is as scarce as it is in North Korea, perhaps every micro-calorie does count. Yet, how are North Korean Bob Dylan fans to reconcile the approved message of their "Dear Leader" with the pointed remarks of the famed folk rock firebrand on the same subject some 38 years ago?
Interviewed for Playboy in 1966, Dylan was invited to remark on the long hair controversies of the time. He pulled no punches, and made it clear that when it comes to scientific research, he's no slouch either:
DYLAN: The thing that most people don't realize is that it's warmer to have long hair. Everybody wants to be warm. People with short hair freeze easily. Then they try to hide their coldness, and they get jealous of everybody that's warm. Then they become either barbers or Congressmen. A lot of prison wardens have short hair. Have you ever noticed that Abraham Lincoln's hair was much longer than John Wilkes Booth's?
PLAYBOY: Do you think Lincoln wore his hair long to keep his head warm?
DYLAN: Actually, I think it was for medical reasons, which are none of my business. But I guess if you figure it out, you realize that all of one's hair surrounds and lays on the brain inside your head. Mathematically speaking, the more of it you can get out of your head, the better. People who want free minds sometimes overlook the fact that you have to have an uncluttered brain. Obviously, if you get your hair on the outside of your head, your brain will be a little more freer. But all this talk about long hair is just a trick. It's been thought up by men and women who look like cigars - the anti-happiness committee.
Dylan's prescience never ceases to astound. If Kim Jong Il doesn't look like a cigar, no one does. And he is certainly a fully paid up card carrying member of the "anti-happiness committee." He's the chairman of the committee, in fact - let's make no bones about it.
The more one contemplates all of this, the more possible it seems that it's Kim Jong Il himself who is the Dylan fan in the equation. (After all, he's almost certainly the only guy in North Korea with internet access and a file sharing program). He'd no doubt be a recent Dylan convert, excitedly gobbling up the mercurial years: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 and Blonde On Blonde, and poring over "Don't Look Back," "Eat The Document," and Bob's interviews of that period. Imagine his shock coming across that exchange in the Playboy interview, about how getting all the hair out of your head makes your mind freer. He looks around and sees the starving, impoverished citizens of his glorious socialist paradise ... and sees that they're not getting regular haircuts (maybe considered a bit of luxury with the rising price of tree bark). Yikes! The implications for his orderly society based on stone-age ignorance and belief in the infallibility of dumpy little Kim himself are only too obvious. Time for a reasoned scientific explanation of why all North Koreans must keep their hair short - and at all costs keep the Hentoff/Dylan interview out of the hands of the general populace!
Well, if this is the case, one can only hope that Kim works his way to Slow Train Coming before it's too late, and gets religion in a big way.
Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts.
Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots.
You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled,
You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills.I guess we shouldn't hold our breath. Meanwhile, at least the short-haired North Korean people can continue to enjoy the benefits of subjugation by a superior life form such as Kim, like this nifty new long-wave infrared radiation paint, good for "heart diseases, neuralgia, skin disorders, circulatory sicknesses, women's troubles such as postpartum diseases, sterility and disorders of menstruation, waist pains, bone fracture and other diseases."
Don't expect big western pharmaceutical interests to let word of that get out. We all have our oppressors, I guess.
Not One More Kiss ...01/06/2005 08:35:51 pm
Sometime Dylan collaborator Gene Simmons is causing a stir with something other than his usual line of patter. During an interview with an Australian radio station (as reported in the NY Post):
the lizard-tongued rock god described Islam as a "vile culture" that treated women worse than dogs. "Your dog, however, can walk by your side," Simmons said. "Your dog is allowed to have its own dog house. You can send your dog to school to learn tricks, sit, beg, do all that stuff . . . None of the women have that advantage." We're guessing Kiss won't be invited to play for the Saudi royal family anytime soon.
He also is possibly prone to prosecution now in France and even Britain and certain other western countries where expressing one's opinion on such matters does not just mean you have to hear from people who vociferously disagree, but that you may face censure and punishment by the government for "hate speech."
OK, that "sometime Dylan collaborator" reference is a little bit of a joke. Gene Simmons gave Bob a writing credit on a song called "Waiting For The Morning Light" that appears on his recent solo album (the title of which cannot be printed on the proper pages of RightWingBob.com). He himself described the extent of the collaboration in this interview:
GS: I picked up the phone. "Hi Bob, it's Gene Simmons." "Hey, Mr. Kiss! How you doing?" "Wanna write a song?" "Sure!" It's as simple as that. He came over to my house and we sat around with two acoustic guitars and I thought he was going to write lyrics, but I wound up writing the lyrics and the melodies and Bob came up with the chord passage.
TC: So would the song have been very different if he wasn't involved?
GS: Yeah. The tendency of the lyric I wrote, maybe subconsciously sounded very Dylan-esque. "She sits inside my picture frame, but I guess it's really not the same" I don't write lyrics like that! Sits inside my picture frame? I'm very direct! But something about Bob being involved I guess made it come out.
No doubt Bob is delighted with Simmons' transformation into a poet. What makes this weird collaboration even funnier is one of the better known stage quotes of Dylan's from his gospel shows, where Simmons' erstwhile combo gets a namecheck. Specifically, in Tempe, Arizona in 1979, Bob responded to some disgruntled concert attendee who had shouted out "rock'n'roll!" with this statement:
If you want to rock and roll you can go down and rock and roll. You can go see Kiss and you can rock and roll all the way down to the pit!
Well, I guess Bob has now given the devil his due.
No info on whether Bob and Gene discussed politics or war while they were strumming.
Down In The Flood ...01/02/2005 06:16:05 pm
US helicopters have begun dropping food and medical supplies in isolated parts of Aceh province in Indonesia that were worst hit by last Sunday's tsunami.
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About 12 American Seahawk helicopters are now delivering aid from a US aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of western Aceh, near the epicentre of the earthquake.
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The first contingent of US marines is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Sunday from a base in Okinawa, Japan, launching what will be the American military's largest-ever operation in Asia since the Vietnam War.
Up to 1,500 US troops are to be deployed in government-run areas of the country, where some of the tsunami damage was caused in areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels.
The marines will have 10 helicopters and two C-130 planes to distribute basic supplies to survivors.Stingy is as stingy does.
On another note:
The leader of the worldwide Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, says the devastation in Asia will make believers in God question their faith.
And such comments might lead others to question the faith of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Of-course anyone's faith is always subject to question and doubt - but a mass life-ending event of this magnitude is surely more of a reason for non-believers to question what it is exactly that they are hanging onto - and whether it can preserve a hope that stretches beyond such cataclysms, and beyond death itself. What is the Archbishop of Canterbury supposed to be purveying if not that?
And even if the flesh falls off of my face
I know someone will be there to care
But my mom always said not to have arguments about religion. (Come to think of it, she said the same thing about politics. Maybe this whole blogging concept needs rethinking ...)
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