Re: I have no Halloween suggestions - yet..

["Nathan Swartzendruber" <thefishpatrol at hotmail_com>]

> >If you don't know him, you should try to check him out - he
> >has a Paul Simon quality to his voice, but sings about real things and
> >not
> >third world day-to-day events that don't mean so much to the average Joe,
> >like Paul does
>
>I'm sorry - can you name a example of a song of Paul Simon's that's about
>"third world day-to-day events"? Very confused here.

I guess everybody has to decide what world they live in, and you can't be 
everywhere at once. But third world day-to-day is every bit as real as 
home-of-the-brave America. Sure I think most media coverage of the third 
world is purely academic. Nobody enjoys guilt, though it's an emotion we're 
too unfamiliar with. At $15k, I can live in a way most of the world only 
imagines, like I might imagine living like a mega-star. I think people 
living in the third world have a kind of bravery we're not even familiar 
with here. And if people like Paul Simon can connect us to the rest of the 
world in more human ways, we need to hear those songs.
Sorry, I'm a little touchy about Africa.

Not happy with myself, and still can't please,

Nathan

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