rockets and Venn diagrams

[suegypt]

Again, riches from TMBGland which I learned about from tmbw.net. Several entertaining entries, including Linnell waxing on about razed New York Skyscrapers, unexpectedly uptight Argentine tango musicians, Estes Rockets (is that Henry firing it?), and downward spirals; and Flans pointing out some serious stuff along with a nice Venn diagram and a

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EXcellent

[bec_87rb]

More reasons to love:

Flans news cycle Wenn diagram, in which he explains who Gets It and who Doesn't Get It.

Linnellian verbiage - By the end of its life, the building must have seemed like a brobdingnagian haunted house, completely out of step with the times and, fatally, an unpleasant reminder of the fussy past. Also like that he thought the photo of the building slightly menacing, which it is.

Carolyn Porco and her team, who have been photographing and monitoring the planet Saturn and its various satellites. As she said during the talk, the highlight of the mission, landing a probe on Titan (Saturn’s largest and weirdest moon), is an event that should have been celebrated with ticker-tape parades across the USA and Europe. I still get a little choked up listening to her concluding statement about Earth’s place in the cosmos.Ditto, buddy. As a Saturn fan from early childhood, I remember my first glimpse of the gas giant through the McCormick telescope at Fan Mountain, near Charlottesville, and how awesome it was. That news of

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[suegypt]

Ya know, I'd be so happy if, out of all this unusual Linnellian contribution over the last months, he emerged as a voice that people look forward to hearing (outside the realm of TMBG fannery). He just sounds like an interesting person who has an interesting style of expression, and dammit, we need more of that.

PS, bec - do you think Flans created that (funny) Venn diagram? I noticed it used the "english" spelling for realize, but maybe Flans doesn't spell well?

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[bec_87rb]

An even better thing to notice - that doesn't really look like his handwriting, does it?

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[suegypt]

I thought it looked like his block printing, at least, on the setlists I've seen, including mine.

But then again, it's BLOCK PRINTING.

[cathy_02]

It is indeed wonderful to have the opportunity to read these interesting, intelligent pieces. I guess that Linnell fans are automatically biased towards appreciation of his writing, but I agree that his humour, style and choice of topics would be more broadly appealing. What sort of forum/publication do you think would be appropriate for his writing?

[suegypt]

Mister and i are fans of New Yorker magazine. I think linnell would fit into that or something like it just fine.

[suegypt]

Actually, thinking again, i think it should be an online forum, because he seems to have just as much to contribute in the way of images, videos and such that can only be shared here. Hence his excellence in these 2 magazine/blogs, don't you think?

[cathy_02]

I guess that his photos could be printed alongside articles in a magazine or paper, but this would be leaning towards a serious journalism gig I suppose. I'm thinking there's probably less responsiblity in concocting a piece for a blog than for a publication. Anyway, I'm glad that what he has done thus far is online, as it has enabled me to see it!

While the blogs we have seen recently do revolve very much around included photos, videos etc, the TMBG newsletter articles from a while back show how he can generate remarkably vivid mental images in the reader just from his wonderful ability to describe a scene.

I guess the question is whether he has got further inspiration, inclination and time to put a significant effort into writing. Maybe it's a new career option for when he really is "too old to rock"?!

(Sorry about this garbled comment. I wish I had even a fraction of JL's writing ablility).