Ok, KO, don't do that again.

[rug]

[Poll_Blind]

1. +1

PB

[redirish28]

2. What did he do? Don't have TV have to wait until it is released on the net to see.

[hlthe2b]

5. Hell, I was listening/half way watching and I don't know what they

are talking about. :shrug:

[rug]

Spent 5 minutes reading James Thurber while sitting in a leather chair.

[redirish28]

8. Yeah, Thurber Friday. My wife loves the way he ends the week that way

She is asking "Not your Cup of Tea"?

[rug]

9. No, I don't like Thurber and his middle class whimsy.

I think KO is being self-indulgent. It's like being cornered by a bore who spends five minutes telling you about his favorite wine.

[redirish28]

10. I respect your right to not like Thurber BUT some think it is a nice calming way to end the week.

It is the #1 story in a sense. Change the channel for a few minutes if you don't like it or mute it until Rachel comes on if you watch Rach.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. What's the problem? I love Thurber.

The times I've heard KO read Thurber I've been delighted -- he was one of the greatest American humorists. It's nice that there are a few people around that still appreciate him. I'd be disappointed if KO stopped reading Thurber.

[rug]

12. I wouldn't watch him read Twain or a Dorothy Parker poem.

There's a time and place for everything and this is simply self-indulgent. Meanwhile, as Dorothy said, "Don't look at me in that tone of voice."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. It isn't self-indulgent if a lot of other people like it.

And apparently they do. You always have the option of changing the channel while those of us who like hearing KO read Thurber sit back and enjoy.

[rug]

15. Lol, a flame war about James Thurber.

But it is selfindulgent. The fact that an unspecified number of people cozy up to this revival of Thurber by a media personality does not change it.

And of course I can change the channel, as I can post my opinion about it, regardless of your chagrin.

[Warren Stupidity]

28. there is no unicorn in the garden

[rug]

29. Is this mushroom safe to eat?

[niyad]

30. um, I am guessing your tv has a mute switch, an on/off button and a channel changer.

a lot of us enjoy his fridays with thurber. kind of like the last few minutes of cbs "sunday morning"-- a few moments of sanity in an increasingly insane world.

[niyad]

31. some of us would not mind him reading those, either. and, you do know that parker wrote more than

just poetry, yes?


A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature



The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron

Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn't impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats.


Ballade Of A Great Weariness



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There's little to have but the things I had,
There's little to bear but the things I bore.
There's nothing to carry and naught to add,
And glory to Heaven, I paid the score.

There's little to do but I did before,
There's little to learn but the things I know;
And this is the sum of a lasting lore:
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

And couldn't it be I was young and mad
If ever my heart on my sleeve I wore?
There's many to claw at a heart unclad,
And little the wonder it ripped and tore.
There's one that'll join in their push and roar,
With stories to jabber, and stones to throw;
He'll fetch you a lesson that costs you sore:
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

So little I'll offer to you, my lad;
It's little in loving I set my store.
There's many a maid would be flushed and glad,
And better you'll knock at a kindlier door.
I'll dig at my lettuce, and sweep my floor,
Forever, forever I'm done with woe.
And happen I'll whistle about my chore,
"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Dorothy Parker

http://www.poemhunter.com/dorothy-parker/poems/page-9/

[rug]

35. Sure, she was nominated for an Oscar for her screenplay of the original "A Star Is Born".

I hope he doesn't start reading that on Fridays.

[WolverineDG]

16. Well, when you get your own network TV show,

you can read "Das Kapital" all you want.

Until then, what's wrong with Keith exposing Americans to the works of James Thurber? You never know, it might lead some of them to :gasp: READ! :wow:

dg

[rug]

20. I see, it's a literacy effort.

[WolverineDG]

32. what's it to you?

usually people on DU are whining that not enough Americans read or are familiar with well-known authors. Here's KO re-introducing Thurber (causing a demand on his books, btw), & you're complaining about it.

:wtf:

dg

[rug]

34. Are you complaining about my complaint?

Assuming he's reading Thurber to inject literacy into the masses and not publicly indulging himself because of the private precious moments he spent reading Thurber with his father, he's chosen a pretty thin author to start with.

[madinmaryland]

18. HE DOES THAT EVERY FRIDAY EVENING.

:wtf:

[rug]

23. I DON'T WATCH IT EVERY FRIDAY EVENING!

fortunately.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Gotta love these posts...

Sorry, my ESP is out of service this evening. Mind telling us what KO shouldn't do again?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. Run with scissors? Step on a crack (and risk breaking his mother's back)?

WEAR WHITE AFTER LABOR DAY???

Yeah, I love these posts too. Like a bad case of jock itch.

[madinmaryland]

21. Well, you can tell the OP does not watch Olbermann very often.

Don't worry about your ESPN meter.

:D

[Goldstein1984]

4. I was only watching out of the corner of my eye, but I think he just did a

Glenn Beck parody.

[redirish28]

7. He's done Beck before... What's so different about this one?

[bluedigger]

14. He's been reading Thurber on Fridays for months.

He used to read it to his dad in the hospital I believe...:shrug:

[rug]

17. I haven't been watching regularly.

I just noticed it tonight and it struck me as an odd use of airtime for a political/news/commentary program.

[madinmaryland]

22. Obviously. nt

[rug]

25. I'll have to turn in my credentials.

[WilliamPitt]

19. Derp

[madinmaryland]

24. Would you stop posting pictures of our Roosevelt.

:grr:

[WilliamPitt]

26. Derp Derp

[rug]

27. Smooth.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. You know in the beginning I would have agreed with you

it was jarring But now... it is a fitting way to finish the week. Hell, I MIGHT even get the collected works of Thurber one of these days.