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THE QUOTE
“He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” — Ann Richards
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THOMPSON AND KEATON
What a blast in Bloomington tonight!
British songwriter, guitarist, and all-around good guy Richard Thompson plays the Buskirk Chumley Theater at 8pm. And if you’re a film buff, hie over to the IU’s Jacobs School of Music, Auer Hall, also at 8, for a showing of Buster Keaton‘s comedy, “Spite Marriage.” John D. Schwandt will accompany the silent movie on organ.
Bloomington Tuesday Night Stars: Thompson & Keaton
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By the way, the tall Thompson (he can give our own Tall Steve Volan a run for his money) came into the Book Corner yesterday. I was fairly busy at the time so I hadn’t taken notice of the celeb in my midst. Only when I ran his credit card did it occur to me that, holy smoke, it’s Richard Thompson!
I showered him with fan praise and — whaddya know? — Thompson showered the Book Corner with his own plaudits.
If you’ve got tix for his gig, you’re in for a big treat.
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THE STRIKE: DAY 9
Fingers crossed that Chicago’s teachers approve the proposed deal with the school board this afternoon.
If done, classes will resume tomorrow. If not, the howling from the anti-unionists will become deafening.
Bosses: The School Board’s David Vitale & The Union’s Karen Lewis
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The idea is starting to filter out that much of the teachers’ quibble stems from their rigid opposition to the trend toward privatization, not only in Chi but around the nation.
Just a reminder to those who dig privatization: we call them public schools for a reason.
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NOT SILVER-TONGUED
Quick question: Is Willard Romney on the payroll of the Barack Obama reelection campaign?
I mean, the guy is running for president, sure, but if he sabotaged himself any more we’d have to grant him honorary membership in the Bluth family of “Arrested Development.”
Mitt Romney Would Fit In Nicely Between George And Lindsay Bluth
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Romney washed his hands of responsibility for half the nation at a Boca Raton fundraiser in the spring. He characterized that half as tax non-payers, bums, gold-diggers, and welfare queens. Someone had sneaked a video camera in and caught him in the act.
See, that’s the way Republicans today look at the people of this holy land. The POG had better jump down off its high horse soon or else they’ll be losing a lot more races.
Anyway, Romney’s big mouth makes me think of that great quote (at the top of this column) delivered by Texan Ann Richards at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She was referring to another patrician Republican running for president at the time, George H.W. Bush.
Somehow Richards became the Texas governor in 1991. How a plain-speaking, unabashedly liberal, feisty female could grab the reins in that antediluvian state is beyond explanation. The Pan troglodytes of Texas came to their senses four years later when they threw her out of office in favor of — oh, my aching head! — George W. Bush.
Had Ann Richards been a pol in, say Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even Nebraska, she just might have become president herself.
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NEW SAN ANTONIO ROSE
Here’s a pretty good quality recording of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys‘ 1940s Texas Swing hit.
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