J. Bradford DeLong has clearly had it with President Bush.
Brad Delong Gets Angry
J. Bradford DeLong has clearly had it with President Bush.
A View From the Schoolhouse
J. Bradford DeLong has clearly had it with President Bush.
Schools feel wrong when the kids aren’t in them. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Beacon faculty, and we could have easily used a second week of getting ready for the school year, but I love it when the kids come back. It doesn’t matter that I never feel quite ready for my classes, when I see the kids, life is good. It feels really good every September to have my choice of career so powerfully reaffirmed.
Warren Zevon lost his battle with cancer Sunday night.
"Dry your eyes, my little friend
Let me take you by the hand
Freddie get ready
Rock steady
When Johnny strikes up the band"
There are about twenty other songs that are more appropriate, but that one is the one that I first put on after I woke up to the news on the radio that he’d died.
Zevon was one of the first rock and rollers who showed me that rock could be intelligent and biting and and hard and fun. He didn’t have the earnestness of the folk musicians I loved, and he had that piano energy that just flowed through his songs. There were weeks on end when his CD didn’t leave the player. And when you grew up in the 1980s, intelligent rock and roll music was rather hard to find.
Good bye, Warren… and thank you.