Monday, May 28, 2007

(was) Joan Baez as promised above

Oops, technical difficulties destroyed this one --I have replaced it right above-- but I'm keeping the post here because in the two minutes it was up, one very speedily-writing commenter wrote in. (YouTube won't let me move the video from one post to another.)

7 comments:

June Butler said...

Her voice is still lovely. I remember during the Vietnam War the night she was on the Smothers' brothers show singing anti-war songs. That was their final show. They got thrown off the air.

And now here we are again.

Kirstin said...

Hi Mimi!
::waving::

June Butler said...

Hi Kirstin.

Jane, I was wondering where my comment went. Here it is!

Jane R said...

Yup, YouTube problems. Too long to explain! (Must get back to writing. Also some family health things came up. All okay now.)

johnieb said...

I believe I was still in Vietnamese language school; it was a "must see" every Sunday night in the dayroom, if you were sober enough. Early '68, Otis And the Mar-Keys (Booker T & the MGs) doing "Dock of the Bay". Poignant time. I'm sorry I did it: went in the army. Coulda done the time.

Jane R said...

Vietnamese language school, geez. You musta been Army Intelligence :-). (No jokes now!)

No blaming -- people did what they did and now we deal with what is in front of us --which is looking worse and worse.

johnieb said...

"No blaming?" I can't say that; I blame lots of people, alive and dead, including myself (putting definitions aside for the moment).

Yes, I enlisted to obtain a MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) of "Intelligence Analyst" (I'm very good at it, more's the pity; so was Jeremiah). I did this to avoid the Infantry, but, as you point out, second-guessing is useless. The Vietnamese was the Army's second-level idea, dammit.