Bow Wow Wow – Merlyn’s – Madison WIsconsin – December 4, 1982
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts at Merlyn’s in Madison Wisconsin January 23, 1982 with the Suburbs
You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don’t know the meaning of a new big word.
“I wish I could photograph them!”
You have seen that kind of people who will never let on that they don’t know the meaning of a new big word. The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven’t shot over their heads. The queen was just one of that sort, and was always making the stupidest blunders by reason of it. She hesitated a moment; then her face brightened up with sudden comprehension, and she said she would do it for me.
I thought to myself: She? why what can she know about photography? But it was a poor time to be thinking. When I looked around, she was moving on the procession with an axe!
Well, she certainly was a curious one, was Morgan le Fay. I have seen a good many kinds of women in my time, but she laid over them all for variety. And how sharply characteristic of her this episode was. She had no more idea than a horse of how to photograph a procession; but being in doubt, it was just like her to try to do it with an axe.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Happy 70th Birthday Gary Doak
Happy 70th birthday to Boston Bruins #25 Gary Doak. Born February 25, 1946 in Goderich, Ontario.
Though the guy kindof looked like an accountant, he was a solid member of the Bruins for most of the 1970s. I used to really enjoy watching him play, as a kid.
He was also a member of the 1966-67 Oklahoma City Blazers that included future Bruins teamates Wayne Cashman, Derek Sanderson, Gerry Cheevers, and a host of others who would go on the NHL fame.
I didn’t charge for my opinion about them, and they didn’t charge for their opinion about me
Well, I liked the king, and as king I respected him—respected the office; at least respected it as much as I was capable of respecting any unearned supremacy; but as MEN I looked down upon him and his nobles—privately. And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me—and were not particularly private about it, either. I didn’t charge for my opinion about them, and they didn’t charge for their opinion about me: the account was square, the books balanced, everybody was satisfied.
Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court