Garrison Keillor: "My San Francisco Buzz"

[silverweb]

I did search first and did not see this posted anywhere else.

This is a delightful and charming column that made me smile. Keillor at his gentle, sardonic best.

It is unbearably bleak as winter lingers in March and a cold wind blows and the people on the obituary page seem better looking than yourself and your prostate feels like a hockey puck and you walk around with your wallet and car keys looking for your wallet and car keys and you read an article about bipolar disorder and think, "Hey, that's me," and so in desperation I flew out to San Francisco for a few days, where the winter rains had stopped and the city was bathed in Mediterranean light and everyone seemed very buoyant, as if the miasma was gone and the halcyon days were back, and suddenly I felt 30 again.

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(It's well worth sitting through the ad to get the free "day pass" to Salon.)

[On the Road]

1. Thank You for Posting

I love Keillor. I have taken to falling asleep listening to archives of Prarie Home Companion.

[silverweb]

2. He's great, isn't he?

He has such a wonderful voice and such storytelling skill, I love listening to him, too.

Thanks so much for the archives link! :hi:

[galledgoblin]

3. thanks for the link!

I went to a book reading by him about 5 years ago.

he complimented my blue hair.