tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post6128118802744570859..comments2024-03-28T14:07:21.692-07:00Comments on Diary of a Fat Slob: Doug’s proper office protocolUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-20240478877542335132021-11-26T16:54:58.338-08:002021-11-26T16:54:58.338-08:00Well, I know where I'll be for the next 42 min...Well, I know where I'll be for the next 42 minutes. HTML is not required. Leonard sings to me and so do you, my friend, though that snippet of poetry is TS Eliot, declawed from his 'Cats' phase.Doug Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075745451950217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-42670560122339785782021-11-26T15:32:39.582-08:002021-11-26T15:32:39.582-08:00Yeah, a lot more, but Leonard talks about it in th...Yeah, a lot more, but Leonard talks about it in this interview. If I wrote about it, it would take several pages, then the comment would vanish into tears and anger. So, you should invest 42 minutes of your time in this CBC interview with Leonard the old man, but if your schedule is crimped start the video at 30:55 and watch the last 12 minutes. For fuck sakes, this guy is one of the best johnthebaskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066837787916271883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-85547485928789484522021-11-26T12:23:26.646-08:002021-11-26T12:23:26.646-08:00> Hallelujah slept for a few years, with only D...> Hallelujah slept for a few years, with only Dylan covering it and singing it in concert, then . . . you probably know what happened then.<br /><br />No, I don't know. It's a Cohen standard and damned good, but I didn't know the album had been refused by his label, and I would've thought 'Hallelujah' would be a recognized classic about twenty bars into the recording Doug Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075745451950217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-81630326844266696452021-11-26T04:09:58.967-08:002021-11-26T04:09:58.967-08:00Doug, thanks so much for featuring Leonard Cohen i...Doug, thanks so much for featuring Leonard Cohen in your Sing-along feature. Democracy is a lovely song, not quite as subtle as most of Leonard's stuff, but lovely nonetheless. <br /><br />The song is off a 1992 album called The Future. Eight years earlier, Leonard had recorded an album called Various Positions which Sony refused to release in the United States. The dipshit who was running johnthebaskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11066837787916271883noreply@blogger.com