First One

 I’m new at this so you may as well know a little about me:

1. I don’t consider myself to be as bright or capable of prose as anyone I’ve read on the internets.

2. I am old, fat, bald and so liberal that I make Noam Chomsky look like Ayn Rand. And no, I’ve never thought Mao, Stalin, Marx or virtually any Kristol worth listening to, or reading.

3. My heroes, in no real order -research these people, you won’t be sorry.
    • The Guthries (Woody and Arlo)
    • Pete Seegar
    • Mac Wiseman
    • John Hartford
    • Charles Pierce of Newton Mass.
    • The people of New Orleans
    • Any Blues musician
    • Salvador Dali
    • van Gough
    • Andrés Torres Segovia
    • Django Reinhard
    • David Drake
    • MLK
    • RFK
    • Desmond Tutu
    • W. Nelson
    • M. Haggard
    • J. Cash
    • L. Lovett
    • Samuel, Jackson and Dee beagle
    • Beagles in general
    • My wife
    • My son
    • My brothers and sisters
    • Gawd help me; my son’s mother
 
4. Sweet Jesus I miss Stupid.

5. I worry about River and if Baghdad is still burning.

6. I will do this blogging thing for a time, and then I’ll probably figure it is too much work and stop.

7. Women are the Almighty’s way of telling men that they need guidance.