Let Us Now Praise Famous ...
Today is Friday, 5 May 2006.
[This is the first of 2 posts for 5 May.]
If y'all don't know the great book by James Agee and Walker Evans ... run, don't walk: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Last night, your MoB executive director and his spouse, the MoB's Enforcer-General of Aesthetics, had dinner at one of the world's great spots, St. Michael's Alley, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 3324 E. 31st Street. Tulsa's oldest surviving coffehouse/cafe, since 1960. (Five stars; be there or be ...)
As we lingered over coffee (E-G) and a triple espresso (E.D.), our waiter, Michael (no known relation to the saint, save as you'll see below), brought us our check.
M: "Not to rush you, of course, but someone else will have to cash you out; I've got to make a delivery."
MOI: "Since when do you deliver?"
M: "Well, we don't, but one of our regulars called. She's been coming in three nights a week for the past 20 years, and she fell in the shower and broke her hip, and called and asked if we could deliver dinner. I'm getting off soon, so I thought I'd drop it by for her."
The MoB has taken no position on the phrase "Random Acts of Kindness." Does seem a little too cutesy. (But then, the MoB being all about the B, it's sort of hard to explain the Gallery of 1970s Giant-Eyed Children in the new Dallas Wing, isn't it, except that MoB be comprehensive and exhaustive.)
Well, if what Michael did doesn't count, who or what does?
As we aging but still-troublesome New Leftists have been saying for years: Live like him.
5 May in History:
1813 - Soren Kierkegaard born.
1818 - Karl Marx born.
1972 - Death of genuis blind blues guitarist, Rev. Gary Davis.
[This is the first of 2 posts for 5 May.]
If y'all don't know the great book by James Agee and Walker Evans ... run, don't walk: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Last night, your MoB executive director and his spouse, the MoB's Enforcer-General of Aesthetics, had dinner at one of the world's great spots, St. Michael's Alley, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 3324 E. 31st Street. Tulsa's oldest surviving coffehouse/cafe, since 1960. (Five stars; be there or be ...)
As we lingered over coffee (E-G) and a triple espresso (E.D.), our waiter, Michael (no known relation to the saint, save as you'll see below), brought us our check.
M: "Not to rush you, of course, but someone else will have to cash you out; I've got to make a delivery."
MOI: "Since when do you deliver?"
M: "Well, we don't, but one of our regulars called. She's been coming in three nights a week for the past 20 years, and she fell in the shower and broke her hip, and called and asked if we could deliver dinner. I'm getting off soon, so I thought I'd drop it by for her."
The MoB has taken no position on the phrase "Random Acts of Kindness." Does seem a little too cutesy. (But then, the MoB being all about the B, it's sort of hard to explain the Gallery of 1970s Giant-Eyed Children in the new Dallas Wing, isn't it, except that MoB be comprehensive and exhaustive.)
Well, if what Michael did doesn't count, who or what does?
As we aging but still-troublesome New Leftists have been saying for years: Live like him.
5 May in History:
1813 - Soren Kierkegaard born.
1818 - Karl Marx born.
1972 - Death of genuis blind blues guitarist, Rev. Gary Davis.
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