On 12/8/06 9:57 AM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Ken
I will have my cell on Saturday......and if time warrants I will be in Nola in two weeks
as to all the ballyhoo about Garisson Kieler and prarie home companion ; there are quite a few listeners out there who think Garrissons $400,000 plus salary, and his son and cuzins running the production company adds up to over a Million bucks plus worth of listner contributions that could be better spent ;
The public is lulled to sleep over the same corny-dumb gag about powder milk biscuits and ketchup , and the antics of lake Wobegone as if it were this generations Faulkner or Twain ...well perhaps it is . if so our tastes have been dumbed down ..Geritol did a much better job as far as oriinality was concerned signed My two cents Py -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html
Good ole HL Mencken (sp?) said that ‘nobody ever lost money over estimating the mediocrity of the American public’.
Jim Hicks