John Prine, Fluorspar, Huh?
The folks on the newsletter have been talking about copyrights.
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Elsewhere the world is shooting itself in the foot.
I am charging too much money for these words, nobody wants to read
them, and nobody cares.
It is very cool this morning. Everything outdoors is covered with dew.
This part of the earth is moving toward the sun. The sun is just breaking
over the eastern horizon.
Yesterday I had a wonderful day. I did not do a dam thing. Normally
I check the emails, do a little computer work, a little garden work, a
little housework. But yesterday I just sat and watched old movies on the
boob tube. I did not do a dam thing. Mr. Ted Turner is reconditioning a
lot of nice old movies and he is doing a great job at it. Tonight I am
going off to watch a high school football game. The local boys are going
to beat the crap out of some folks from Muhlenberg County.
Remember the John Prine song “Paradise” about Muhlenberg County?
I just read the lyrics, so sad. That shovel is still there a working
and Paradise Steam Plant is still blowing smoke. It all can be seen by
the parkway.
The John Prine Shrine
http://www.jpshrine.org/
I want peace on earth but I do enjoy the rough games we play.
I want everything free. You all charge too much money for what you
do.
Live in poverty and charge nothing.
I want euphoria and utopia.
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Laurel wants stuff so she works to get it. She should work for free
but she is not going to do that because she wants stuff.
Where is the happy medium? I should not complain, I live in poverty
but Laurel keeps me happy by buying me computers and food. Some people
have all the luck. Laurel does all the work and I enjoy it.
I really want all my old loves to be here with me. I want euphoria
and utopia.
What the hell is a pipe dream?
Do they play the music for you to enjoy or do they play the music for
you to buy?
Where did we screw up?
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The ball game went as expected our young men
were just to much for them.
We had depth and experience on our team.
They only had about 25 young men on their team
and we had about forty of fifty.
The coal industry has fallen on hard times in
Muhlenburg County, good jobs relates to good football teams in this here
part of the country.
One thing they had that we do not have is a band.
They had about 50 band members plus their flags
and commanders.
We only have about 25 people in our band including
the flags and commanders.
We have heard stories about how big our band
used to be back in the fifties.
They say there may have been over one hundred
kids in the band at that time.
Those were the times that fluorspar mining flourished
in this county.
Leave it to the steel industry and Reaganomics
to diminish the arts in Crittenden County.
We can whittle a stick while chewing a straw
in our overalls and send it to a craft shop but we cannot fund our music
and art departments in Kentucky.
Reaganomics says leave it to the industries to
build up our arts departments.
The only thing that industry wants in Western
Kentucky is non union labor.
If a community joins a union to improve their
working conditions industry packs up and goes elsewhere.
The steel industry went south of the border for
their fluorspar and Crittenden County went from over 30,000 folks to 9000
folks in just a few years.
Fluorspar
in Marion
http://www.clementmineralmuseum.com/
Gollum is learning the meaning of ....
badaba
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