Ok. Fwiw, there was a campaign, or rather a running joke in the old newsgroup: ZIMMY FOR PRESIDENT! I'm not sure how it started or what it meant, but it was an ongoing source of hilarity for several years. Zimmy was an all-around music scholar & Dylan fan in particular. I was secretly convinced ...

Well I just now learned there is a Dr. Hook version of Lucy Jordan. Gonna look it up now. Thanks, Zimmer.
PS are you the same character as Zimmy from the original Newsgroup?

LisaCFan Clearly you and I have a difference of opinion, and clearly your opinion is based on "research" of information cited in a mainstream media documentary which I haven't looked at nor am I inclined to do so. Documentarians commonly cherry-pick their facts to create their preferred na...

Well it hit the front page today-- Buffy Sainte-Marie officially has been stripped of her indigenous status. I have no idea what the "damning evidence" is that's being used against her. AFAIK it's only her birth certificate--? Gimme a break! She was adopted!!! Erasing 1 or both birth paren...

Wonder if someone would want to start a kind of Zoom room or place/time that folks could meet up in Zoom? Might be fun. (I would start a new topic about that if I could figure out how to do it). Anyone want to consider it? Sounds good if someone *else* can figure out how to do it. . I only know. wr...

Always good to see you here, too, Dar. I wonder if we'll ever get a chance to meet. Here's a gift for you. Marianne Faithfull at her very best, in concert 1990 at St. Anne's church, Brooklyn, NY. An hour and a half of words & music that will break your heart & heal it back again. The type of...

Marianne Faithfull has passed away, age 78. Perhaps known best as a 60s icon with high soprano voice who covered the Jagger-Richards hit, As Tears Go By. She was also Mick Jagger's girlfriend for a time, the muse who inspired Wild Horses. After their breakup, she descended into addiction and homeles...

Elizabeelzebubeth!! Firstly, I hope I spelled you correctly!! Secondly, there are no words, eloquent or clumsy, adequate to express how much you have been missed. So good to hear from you, and to know that you've been taking such loving care of our little extended family-- Babz and Pax Anne, Lazariu...

Hello Geoffrey, I am the internet. I remember everything :D Mostly good stuff, when it comes to you. Those Newsgroup days were especially memorable, though, weren't they? . Glad you're still around. And Elizabeth, and Dar. Sigh! We're all getting a bit long in the tooth. Somebody (not me!) perhaps s...

Oh, no! So sorry to hear this. My condolences to her son and to her brother and extended family. Pax Anne was one of the brightest lights and most brilliant intellectuals in the old Newsgroup. It was a privilege to have known her, although I can't say I knew much specifically about her many illustri...

Hey dere dar! How wonderful to see you! You are missed. Hell, I gotta stop this sporadic dropping in & lurking & tossing a coupla wordbombs & then disappearing routine. I need, really really need, to come around this calm & fruitful place more, because all you guys nourish my soul in...

Ah, Geoffrey, It's great to see you again, too! Thank you for that correction. Perhaps Judith said she was "one of" the founding members of the newsgroup, and I mis- remembered it as "the" founder. Was Perry Metzger known by another name in the newsgroup? And while we're on the s...

That audio clip popped up in my YouTube feed. Dylan's vocal was better than I anticipated & the arrangement was lovely.
I came here to see if y'all were aware & learned of Jack Lazariuk's passing.
Hello, everyone. Let us compare mythologies while we can. We are so lightly here.

NOOOOOOOO! Please tell me, this cannot be true! How? When? Jack was one of the philosophers on the old Newsgroup which was founded, I believe, by the late great poet, Judith Fitzgerald. I came in later & felt right at home among that weirdly wild & wonderful bunch. Jack was always one of my...