Weird... I Wasn't Quite Sure Of The Value Of Keith's Thurber Readings

[WillyT]

until tonight.

Is it post election debacle that makes one yearn for past-time wisdom?

I have no clue.

All I know, was that I was watching/listening more closely... and feeling rather warmly about the whole event.

Sort of like a fire-side chat.

Weird...

:shrug:

:hi:

[eleny]

1. I'm enjoying this one very much, too, and want to hear the rest

Not read but hear him tell it.

There were weeks I wasn't engaged all that much but not so tonight.

So, it seems that it might not be the story itself but rather the times and the darkened set with Keith in that red wing chair. Thanks, I'll think it over.

Btw, as the story unfolded it had me thinking of the movie, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House". That was just my random thought since you shared yours.

:hi:

[WillyT]

2. Love You...

:grouphug:

:hi:

[eleny]

4. Back atcha!

[klook]

3. I guess I've been under a rock

-- well, actually, I haven't had cable for a few months. So I missed that Keith was reading Thurber. This is great, since I have been a big fan of James Thurber since my teen years, and I also like Keith Olbermann quite a bit.

I see now a bunch of these readings are on YouTube, such as "The Catbird Seat" (great one for baseball nerds), "The Greatest Man in the World" (weirdly cynical story, which I initially read in a Louis Untermeyer-edited humor anthology that my father had a copy of), "The Night the Ghost Got In" (hilarious and wackily charming story of life in the Thurber household in the early 20th century), and OMG! He even reads some of "The Pet Department," which is creatively very nutty and some of my favorite JT writing (augmented by goofy drawings of things like the fish with "hysterical ears" -- which cracks me up just thinking about it).

Wow, this is like stumbling on a gold mine. I will read some James Thurber myself tonight while dozing off, and look forward very much to checking out Olbermann's readings of one of my favorite writers.

Thanks much for mentioning this.

[WillyT]

5. I'm Wondering If He's Gonna Do "You Could Look It Up"

I used to teach that to 8th graders.

:shrug:

:hi:

[klook]

7. Oh man, love that one!!

Hilarious to think about Bill Veeck replicating that trick with the St. Louis Browns.

Now I'm gonna have to go and waste a few nights re-reading all my James Thurber books. What a shame. :7

Thanks again!
:toast:

[WillyT]

9. There Is No Waste In Re-Reading Thurber...

;)

:bounce:

:hi:

[MagickMuffin]

8. The reason behind Keith's Friday night reading was because of his father

Keith would read from the Thurber books while his father was in the hospital during his stay there and before his transition.

So, Keith decided to do this weekly. I always thought they were delightful.

[EFerrari]

6. Thurber

[WillyT]

10. ...

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