Grateful Dead

My 5-cents......Any book written by Nick Hornby is well worth reading. You can start with Fever Pitch(even if you're a Liverpool fan), and go from there, but really, you can start anywhere. If you love humor, great writing, and music(!!),
you can't go wrong. For the music fan, perhaps start with "Juliet, Naked", and go from there.

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on a happier note:

3/18/77 is phenomenal. listened to disc three, 3/20/77's Scarlet, and some of disc 2 of 4/2/73 on a rainy, sloggy drive to Tacoma last evening.

March 77 Winterland...YO DAVEnPALS...how about giving this run the full Norman?

That one about that Waldo guy.
You had to find him.
I gave up after a page or two.
It was several orders of magnitude harder than finding reCRAPTCHA traffic lights.

:)
Happy Friday Deadland.

Last day of work before a week and a half off.
Woo Hoo!

Is it still socially acceptable, then, to smoke weed in the States where it has been legalized ? It must have a very different image for a 16year old living in such a State to the one it had for me back in Oldham in 1973.

Maybe with naming strains or naming anything else, come to that, it makes a difference if the individual associated is still alive to give their consent to having their name used.

I haven't read either Ulysses or Moby Dick, I am ashamed to say. Two I have on the go at the moment are Rob Young's excellent "Electric Eden : Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music," and " Fiends in the Furrows ", and anthology of folk horror short stories that has just been published.

Oh, yes...I listened to The Dead this morning. Dave's Picks 6, to be precise - the 12/20/69 show. You have to be careful, because the excellent second set is on the second half of the second cd, followed by the first set on the 3rd. There is also a Lovelight which kicks off the 3rd cd which is only marginally shorter than Moby Dick.

I KNEW there was one more thing I was going to say in my previous post. I started it (for the first time) about four years ago, then abandoned it about 200 pages in. Two years ago I started it again, but only made it about 150 pages in. This fall I re-started it again, determined that the third time would be the charm. This time I'm allowing myself to skip the chapters where Melville describes whale anatomy and the chapters where he references every ancient myth and text known to humans. This time I'll make it.

Purchased (and loved) A Prayer for Owen Meany from a recommendation from this chat group. A while back I also picked up a copy of V by Pynchon because of someone here mentioning it, but I haven't started that one. I own Ulysses, and will try it one of these days . . .

Great book? Cry, the Beloved Country. Sula by Toni Morrison. Birds Without Wings. The Things They Carried. Steppenwolf. (don't get me started . . . )

....Stephen King churns out books faster than I can read them. Vonnegut is good, as is Poe and Lovecraft.
VGK lost in OT, yet currently tied for first in the Pacific. Points add up.
Slave To The Traffic Light - Phish. That's for you slow dog. Ramble On - Led Zep.
Look at us old timers on the net of dead.

LMG admit it. The jig is up. The waist is in the pants. The plain has left the station. If the foo shits, wear it, as my dentist says. Or was it something about my teeth? In any event, when this many people call you out your best bet is to fade away, and run your monte on the other side of the tracks for a while. Sell your grilled cheese at the other exit as it were. But who am I to give advice? Just a guy on the internet. Mighty swell be a bot, or a russian. Lots of russkies around these days. Just not in major events they tell me.

I tried Ulysses years ago, and failed. Vowed when I turned 40 I'd try it again, and finish. So it was. A few months ago I got through it. Can't say I understood more than 35% or so. But its part of the can(n)on, right? A few phrases that stuck with me:

What's a pier? A disappointed bridge.

God made food, the devil the cooks.

Whichever way the cat jumps.

Short story long Ulysses is worth the effort, although if I read it again i'll read the Odyssey first. Leopold's stream of conscious is where it's at. A readers' guide definitely helps, no shame here. Plenty are available online. For the best authors the real nut is in the re-read, which deadheads should be familiar with. Same with Pynchon, who I consider to be the master of 20th century literature. I can't wait to read Mason & Dixon again.

Still waiting for that '84 halloween dead sweatshirt I ordered in early October. Warehouse issues they say. Who am I to argue? I don't need amazon style broken bone high stakes empty pool high wire Larry Darrell razor's edge envelope pushing without a net highest ladder step can of corn Randy Johnson fastball sort of delivery. When somebody has a minute just slap a barcode on it and toss it in the van with the next Dave's, right?

Not totally stoked about another '77 show as the gemstone of next year's series, but I do consider 2019 to be perhaps the best year of Dave's . I did miss year one.

I'm on board with Gainesville needing to be released. Love to see that as a Dave's. And a '71 Cap Theater box would be fantastic for the new decade.

Sorry for rambling. No offense meant to anyone, I love this place. Good times good music good vibes. Now where is that traffic light? This should be easy for a bot.

Charlie, Glass Houses from Billy Joel, wow!
That was my first concert. Went to see Billy Joel at the St. Paul Civic Center in 1980 or 81. My Dad took me and a buddy. I think we were in fourth grade. I remember my Dad commenting on some guys near us were smoking pot. Crazy memory.
Deadheadbrewer-
I am interested in your thoughts on that Marantz CD player you just bought. I was looking at that one as well and thought, will it really give me better sound than I have now?? Interesting to me also that you do not notice any better sound with your HDCD player. I keep thinking I need to find one to get that additional 4 bits.

James Joyce. Never read any of his books, but I understand they are quite the grind.

This summer I started Moby Dick. Got about 50 pages in. Brought it to the pool one day and a woman walked up and said it was the most boring book she ever read. Stopped reading it right there.

Currently about 80 pages into The Brothers Karamazov. It’s a bit of a struggle, but I understand it is worth it. Crime and Punishment is one of the best books I have ever read.

Other books that can be a bear, but are totally worth it - A Prayer for Owen Meany and A Gentleman in Moscow.

Merry Christmas to all.

Apparently the Daniels family is now calling their Tennessee (Jed) whiskey Jack Daniels.