Holy crap, it's the website guy! Eli, your website is outstanding, and I really hope you'll join our discussion here.

Wow, gphatty, Rowan, swibble, The Wide Ranger, the staff, and more—this is going to be a hella fun discussion.

Agreed. I love that Goodparley concludes that hamlets are little pigs.

Great comment. And you're right that this book is just packed. I've spent a straight week now just thinking about the 1 Big 1 and the 1 Littl 1, and those are hardly the book's only treasures. A "novel-length Zen koan" is a good description of it, and the thing really is just beautiful.

Lame. Lame, lame, lame, lame. Don't you know any musicians? Don't you know how hard it is for musicians to make a living today?

Google Books shows 4 mentions of "largen" and 2 for "largent," all pretty much about the idea of merging, of enlarging a group by joining it with another.

I'll admit I haven't given Cohen's more recent output as much attention as I have his back catalog, mainly because I've been so put off by the production. (Man oh man, do I hate them fancy lads, with their smooth jazz saxophones and their percussion calm enough for a dentist office.)

Maybe what I should be looking for is the meaning of "largent in"…. (As in "arper sit.")

I think I've got most of the vocab. now, thanks to reading the book out loud and thanks to the annotations website, but there is one I still have no idea of: "largent."

That's cool, I didn't know that.

This thread is the worst I've ever read on this site. The Motherfucking Shore Patrol, I thought when people were as wrong as you their protons stopped cohering and they flew apart. Jesus Christ, what did you do, go through the fucking BMG catalogue and write down every folk-leaning person you'd ever heard of? I…

Only FREE INQUIRY ran those comics after that insane blow-up. And it's not because the media is liberal, it's because they're cowardly and they use being respectful of religion as an excuse not to reprint or show them. Not even FOX NEWS showed those comics, so it's not just a liberal thing. Not even Yale Press,…

Triscuits and freedom fries.

I'd like to say that this is a lovely discussion, and that I agree with most of it except for Lone A.'s statement that there was ever a less-fundamentalist Islamic era, but the vile stench of Triscuit-breath is driving me from the room.

A Muslim Plot to Poison America's Triscuit Supply—
I wouldn't have expected it—but now I'm a little concerned.

Web 3.0
Will it be, if money has its say, the Internet we know now only more expensive?

I guess Todd Field is directing it.

Dylan is a phony—that's nothing new—
NEWSWEEK was reporting in that story in the '60s. Just read FOLK-ROCK, the first biography of Dylan—it's all just his manufactured press release information. Perhaps his overall message though, is that we're all a little phony, but do your best with that. As both SLEEPING DOGS…

The EVERYTHING IS e.p. kind of did that, even though it came before. But it's all part of the band's evolution, part of their big story.

That was a great album, you're right, and I should have mentioned it. Also, I wrongly placed his TEN NEW SONGS in the '90s instead of in 2001. So the era of his that I really have a problem with is this last decade. THE FUTURE was 1992 and predates, in my opinion, his era of truly questionable production values,…