tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6336870166728312946..comments2024-03-28T06:41:07.968-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: "Everyone, everywhere, gets up, and goes home"Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37117282865515103442020-10-29T08:45:14.603-05:002020-10-29T08:45:14.603-05:00I was tempted to add my own commentary to your mus...I was tempted to add my own commentary to your musings and the occasional feeling that life is futile after a certain age, but this piece is perfect the way it is. It conjures up questions about the meaning of life that are important. Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56938489484769787272020-10-29T08:40:31.055-05:002020-10-29T08:40:31.055-05:00As usual, your few words provide much food for tho...As usual, your few words provide much food for thought and a gamut of emotions. Thank you-Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31959976835747448082020-10-08T12:16:53.776-05:002020-10-08T12:16:53.776-05:00I very selfishly hope you keep blogging.
Lilly'...I very selfishly hope you keep blogging.<br />Lilly's dad, LarryParent of 4th Graderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02159250124256720189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-51206695834717590602019-03-20T11:13:56.415-05:002019-03-20T11:13:56.415-05:00Brings to mind the Flaming Lips' wonderful &qu...Brings to mind the Flaming Lips' wonderful "Do You Realize?"J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-87882607633382986562019-03-20T09:54:39.262-05:002019-03-20T09:54:39.262-05:00You're in Chicago, where "the lake is alw...You're in Chicago, where "the lake is always east." I'm in Cleveland, where "the lake is always north." Consequently, we have much different weather patterns than Chicago has. We're mostly downwind of all that water, and/or ice. Our snow begins earlier and ends later, often lasting well into April. <br /><br />The northerly lake breezes keep us quite chilly in springtime, and the clouds they produce block more of the sun. St. Patrick's Day in Chicago really does celebrate the arrival of spring. But here, on the "wrong" side (leeward side) of Lake Erie, it's still cold, blustery, and often snowy for the March 17th parade. Spring will not truly be upon us for about another month. And it's when winter's almost over that people here really go nuts, as they wait for it to finally end. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-54171061716992322212019-03-19T19:52:37.836-05:002019-03-19T19:52:37.836-05:00Keep on posting - for yourself and others who foll...Keep on posting - for yourself and others who follow you. It inspires others to keep plugging away at their endeavors.Jack of All Tiradeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793541460471870149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13011866095176439412019-03-19T19:52:35.338-05:002019-03-19T19:52:35.338-05:00Grizz, yesterday I saw Robins and Red Winged Black...Grizz, yesterday I saw Robins and Red Winged Blackbirds in abundance as I walked around some park district athletic fields. Got a good dose of vitamin-D, walking 3 miles in the sunshine, too. I feel like a new man, today. Spring is upon us! Put the doldrums behind you.Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15119832467442771755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13907594172730785712019-03-19T18:27:00.275-05:002019-03-19T18:27:00.275-05:00"Keep on truckin," NS."Keep on truckin," NS.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73509275276047237362019-03-19T16:43:08.210-05:002019-03-19T16:43:08.210-05:00We must presume that your closing invocation of &q...We must presume that your closing invocation of "tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow" is not a suggestion that EGDD is "told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."<br /><br />I like the Hecht poem. Must look her up.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-48455243364212036772019-03-19T12:39:43.473-05:002019-03-19T12:39:43.473-05:00tate, I assume tongue is in cheek, as "The Te...tate, I assume tongue is in cheek, as "The Ten Commandments" didn't include a pyramid. I'm waiting for the discovery of the 660,000 skeletons of those denied the promised land, who must have died in the Sinai Desert.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-21398895426875464872019-03-19T11:48:16.168-05:002019-03-19T11:48:16.168-05:00Discouragement at the tail-end of one's fiftie...Discouragement at the tail-end of one's fifties? I'm thirteen years your senior, Mr. S...and if you think it's tough now, just wait until you pass seventy, and you know your best days are far behind you, and you start to feel like Dorothy in Oz, as she stares in horror at the red sand running through the hourglass. One major difference, though...our Witch is male...and he has orange hair and a Noo Yawk cackle.<br /><br />I loved "Bobwatch"...and when I received "You Were Never In Chicago" as a gift, four years ago, I enjoyed that even more. But I didn't stumble upon this blog until the final days of the Obama presidency. Even then, I lurked for over a year, as I did not want to piss the proprietor off, as so many others here have done in the past (Unfortunately for me, that's something at which I excel). Which was why didn't post here until I felt I understood the "tone" of this place, and until I knew what would fly, and what would crash and burn. <br /><br />I have enjoyed this site immensely for the past 15 months or so, and would be very saddened to see the plug get pulled. It's one of only four sites I still frequent daily...two are local, another is EGD, and the fourth is a private messageboard I have posted on for many years.<br /><br />Perhaps the time of year has something to do with your discouragement, Mr S...my wife and I (and many others we know) agree that February and March are the "Dog Days" of the calendar year, especially for those of us stuck in Midwestern cities. Despite the lengthening daylight, the weather forecast continues to be "mostly sucky"...it's still cold and still snowy. Winter seems endless, and everyone is sick of it, and we yearn for warmth and stong sunlight and greenery and sitting on the porch with an adult beverage, listening to the chirping birds. Some years, we even have to wait until May for all that.<br /><br />Funnily enough, I was just thinking to myself the other day about how the number of responses, and responders, apear to have fallen off sharply at EGD in recent months. Many familiar names have apparently moved on. But take heart, Mr S...this die-hard still appreciates your wordsmithing efforts, and would be sorry to see it all come to an end. I really would. Trust me. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73571012475503951422019-03-19T08:39:15.737-05:002019-03-19T08:39:15.737-05:00Generally, I would agree that it's better to r...Generally, I would agree that it's better to read a poem by itself rather than amidst a running commentary, but in this case the poem is not being offered for its esthetic value alone, but as a counterpoint to Yoko Ono's "keep on keeping on" tweet and I found Neil's explication useful in getting his point across as well as in understanding the poem. And even if historically it's false, we all "know" that the pyramids were built with slave labor -- "The Ten Commandments" told us so.<br /><br />By the way, I hope that the "False Flyer" is not Fake Fake news a la Jussie; maybe it's Fake Fake Fake news in hopes of scoring 2 points: calling attention to Lori's "gayness," while implying that she cooked up the flyer herself.<br /><br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-36975455265614462532019-03-19T08:28:41.177-05:002019-03-19T08:28:41.177-05:00Please don't get up and go home just yet, Neil...Please don't get up and go home just yet, Neil. Your blog usually has a surprise or a smile, and often makes me reach for the dictionary to look up a new, useful (or at least interesting) word.Dave Jacquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609959560089421718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91800296987420571102019-03-19T07:53:38.605-05:002019-03-19T07:53:38.605-05:00Reading the poem with commentary, I didn't lik...Reading the poem with commentary, I didn't like it. Going back and reading just the 12 lines and I enjoyed its wisdom and brevity. Neil, I know the Egyptians took slaves like all empires, but I thought it has been established that the great monuments were built as civic endeavors by what passed for free citizens.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8521015848807658982019-03-19T07:30:14.874-05:002019-03-19T07:30:14.874-05:00Don't stop. I read every goddam day.....first ...Don't stop. I read every goddam day.....first thingRutthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458422478819001822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73229722915275057792019-03-19T06:44:23.705-05:002019-03-19T06:44:23.705-05:00I’ve read it every day. Sometimes if it’s almost m...I’ve read it every day. Sometimes if it’s almost midnight I will stay up a little longer just to read the next days post. Would miss it very much. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831580101168618303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-75478228796192189382019-03-19T06:37:49.050-05:002019-03-19T06:37:49.050-05:00If you can still write poetry when you're 87, ...If you can still write poetry when you're 87, why wouldn't you? Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15119832467442771755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56624677177753265242019-03-19T05:55:06.001-05:002019-03-19T05:55:06.001-05:00I hope you keep the blog. I like it. But you got ...I hope you keep the blog. I like it. But you got to like it because you're doing all the work. I check it out every day. Never gets old to me. Hope you keep going.Connellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406704590565406630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-42414831053611550792019-03-19T03:38:27.586-05:002019-03-19T03:38:27.586-05:00And, I can never say it enough for what it means t...And, I can never say it enough for what it means to my day, thank you. Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.com