And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness." -- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
And Then It Was Ephemera #8: Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Strange Bedfellows: Anton LaVey, former head of Church of Satan, meets John Kerry.
From the San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1982
Was it? How disappointing. I was just wondering why Kerry didn't use this picture in his campaign literature. The endorsement wouldn't have won him any votes, but horrible things would have started happening to George Bush (before his reelection, I mean).
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Photoshop. Srsly! I've seen this one reasonably debunked. Funny nevertheless!
Was it? How disappointing. I was just wondering why Kerry didn't use this picture in his campaign literature. The endorsement wouldn't have won him any votes, but horrible things would have started happening to George Bush (before his reelection, I mean).
Sadly, it is not legit! Laugh
And who said it was legit?
Ephemera that only exists as a Photoshop file is the most ephemeral ephemera of all.
You just won the poetry contest!
I have an old L.P. by Anton...
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