The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for November 01, 2023

Many people in a “real” job are far from normal.

I remember seeing Pete Seeger on stage once, with Harry Chapin, Steve Goodman, and one other folkie. Each was mostly doing serial solo acts but when one of the other artists was performing, Seeger would watch intently for a few seconds and then join in on the banjo.

It was exactly the “have to perform” Mr P is talking about.

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There is a positive twist to the death of newspapers. This woman is out of a job. Although she’s perfect for faux news.

Artists of all types, those in music, ink, paint, on the stage or screen or keyboard all have that drive, that fire, to create and most don’t get recognized, or paid, enough.

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Ah, well, synchronicity. A hatchet-face for a hatchet job… ☺

Some bitter old bat who “works” as a reporter for some village weekly. Her opinion isn’t worth the oxygen she sucks up.

This sounds like the woman who owned the Manchester Union Leader paper when we lived there in the ’80s. She was a leading far-right wingnut of her day, at least in that first-primary state. Her paper choked when Bush 1 complimented Ted Kennedy—that was the last thing they wanted to report. The Boston Globe was pretty gleeful about it.