Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature but nobody has seen hide nor hair of him since the announcement was made.
Several individuals claim to have seen Dylan and here are the Top Ten Most Likely Locations for Bob Dylan:
10) Gallup, New Mexico-- Dylan once threw nosey journalists off track about by falsely claiming to be from Gallup.
9) Mosul, Iraq-- A Dylan look-alike, or Dylan himself, was seen working in Iraq, possibly as undercover CIA. Dylan stated his youthful ambition to be a soldier and may be fulfilling that dream under very dangerous circumstances.
8) Village Vanguard-- Dylan began his rise to fame in New York's Greenwich Village. This club is said to be one of his favorites.
7) Bass Player for Katy Perry-- The bass player accompanying Katy Perry on her last tour had an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Bob Dylan.
6) Selling candles in Woodstock, New York-- A friend of mine recently visited Woodstock and the salesperson at Candlestick, a shop in town, spoke in a nasal voice and would hardly answer her questions.
5) Rudi's Pizza delivery driver (Hibbing, Minnesota) -- Bob Dylan may have returned to his roots in the North Country. Reportedly he has rented a cheap flat and took on temporary employment as a driver to make his ruse totally foolproof.
4) Customer at Cafe Les Deux Magots (Paris, France)-- Dylan always had a fondness for strong espresso coffee and the writing of Ernest Hemingway. Is that him whiling away the hours in a beret and smoking with a cigarette holder? You cannot smoke in the USA anymore.
3) Willie Nelson's tour bus-- Dylan always had an interest in Austin, Texas and country singer/songwriter Willie Nelson. The bus is famous for providing unlimited supplies of pot. And Willie can keep a secret.
2) Performing in Las Vegas-- Dylan may have pulled an Andy Kaufman and adopted a total different performing persona. Kaufman posed as Tony Clifton, a crass comedian who in know way resembled the real Andy Kaufman, a sweet-natured guy. Bob Dylan may be posing as a mysterious, not-very-attractive magician. She has been appearing in several Vegas lounges-- including Sky Lounge, The Laundry Room, and Bond-- and looks exactly like Dylan in drag. The magic tricks are pretty lame.
1) Starbucks-- You ever notice how there is always some unshaved, grey-haired guy at Starbucks with his backpack. These guys will often pull off their shoes and put their dirty feet on the couches and just camp out all day. Dylan may be moving across the country going from one Starbucks to the next. Best disguise ever.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Life Magazine-- globalism before the Internet
Life Magazine (June 27, 1949)
You find a magazine from the day you were born, 67 years ago, and you buy it. The Life, its aged paper still in very good condition, only cost $3.00. Old magazines do not increase in value. A young woman in a modest bathing suit smiled from the bench of a sailing yacht. The inside of the magazine held portents of the revolution about to overtake society. I refer to the Sixties cultural revolution and later to the electronic revolution of the Internet.
The internet unites us all. We're using it now. I write the words and you read these words from any corner of the globe. Life magazine did not have interactive capacities. We consumed the words, content controlled by editor Henry Luce, and had no ability to respond other than through a few published Letters to the Editor.
So, what was happening? America and the Allies had just won World War II. America's Fifties prosperity, soon to arrive in full, comes across in the ads, many for liquor-- and every kind of booze is promoted: Puerto Rican rum, Seagram's whiskey, Sloe gin, Imperial liquor and Schlitz beer. So alcohol consumption was plentiful. Nash cars were advertised with their curved lines and rounded bumpers. A primitive RCA television brought to mind the fuzzy pictures and tiny screen of the era. Milton Berle got mentioned so television had begun its magnificent expansion.
Life extolled the plentiful harvest of wheat in a multi-page story. And marriage was in the air. Palumbo's wedding reception hall in Philadelphia hosted 3,000 wedding parties a year, as many as 56 wedding receptions in a single day! An obsessed baseball Annie, a name for the sports' groupies of that era, shot a baseball player. She enticed Eddie Waitkus, a Phillies first baseman to her hotel room and and then pulled out a rifle and shot him. He survived. An overzealous Texas constable smashed Houston gambling rooms to bits, even though this was out of his purview. Life went to Japan where an effort was being made to convert the Japanese to Christianity. Bill Boyle, patronage boss working for Harry Truman, made the rounds of the political wards. The magazine refers to Joseph McCarthy in brief manner, but the threat of Communism loomed heavily.
The magazine conducted its own intellectual gathering, "A Round Table on the Movies" with Hollywood's most formidable directors and producers on hand, along with academics and other players in the world of film. Life had enough power and influence to lead discussions on the important themes of the day-- including Housing and Modern Art.
Life brought some sophistication to our lives-- and brought the world to our living rooms. It was a baby step and eventually the large, photo-filled pages gave way to the mountain of electrons we call the internet.
You find a magazine from the day you were born, 67 years ago, and you buy it. The Life, its aged paper still in very good condition, only cost $3.00. Old magazines do not increase in value. A young woman in a modest bathing suit smiled from the bench of a sailing yacht. The inside of the magazine held portents of the revolution about to overtake society. I refer to the Sixties cultural revolution and later to the electronic revolution of the Internet.
The internet unites us all. We're using it now. I write the words and you read these words from any corner of the globe. Life magazine did not have interactive capacities. We consumed the words, content controlled by editor Henry Luce, and had no ability to respond other than through a few published Letters to the Editor.
So, what was happening? America and the Allies had just won World War II. America's Fifties prosperity, soon to arrive in full, comes across in the ads, many for liquor-- and every kind of booze is promoted: Puerto Rican rum, Seagram's whiskey, Sloe gin, Imperial liquor and Schlitz beer. So alcohol consumption was plentiful. Nash cars were advertised with their curved lines and rounded bumpers. A primitive RCA television brought to mind the fuzzy pictures and tiny screen of the era. Milton Berle got mentioned so television had begun its magnificent expansion.
Life extolled the plentiful harvest of wheat in a multi-page story. And marriage was in the air. Palumbo's wedding reception hall in Philadelphia hosted 3,000 wedding parties a year, as many as 56 wedding receptions in a single day! An obsessed baseball Annie, a name for the sports' groupies of that era, shot a baseball player. She enticed Eddie Waitkus, a Phillies first baseman to her hotel room and and then pulled out a rifle and shot him. He survived. An overzealous Texas constable smashed Houston gambling rooms to bits, even though this was out of his purview. Life went to Japan where an effort was being made to convert the Japanese to Christianity. Bill Boyle, patronage boss working for Harry Truman, made the rounds of the political wards. The magazine refers to Joseph McCarthy in brief manner, but the threat of Communism loomed heavily.
The magazine conducted its own intellectual gathering, "A Round Table on the Movies" with Hollywood's most formidable directors and producers on hand, along with academics and other players in the world of film. Life had enough power and influence to lead discussions on the important themes of the day-- including Housing and Modern Art.
Life brought some sophistication to our lives-- and brought the world to our living rooms. It was a baby step and eventually the large, photo-filled pages gave way to the mountain of electrons we call the internet.
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