Letters to the Editor

"I'm Not There" This dazzling film explores the idea of Bob Dylan, "poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity." By Stephanie Zacharek [2007-11-21]

• Who let the ankle-biters out?

  Every decade they have something else to yip about, don't they? "He can't sing." "He's irrevelant." "He did all of his best stuff in the 60s." "He's soooo boomer." "He's propped up by the critics." ("I don't get it, bwahhhh!")

  100 years from now they will still have their spiky little teeth locked onto his pant leg. It is their fate. And not a bad fate as fates go, because Dylan will be timeless.

  "The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies

  I'm preachin' the Word of God

  I'm puttin' out your eyes

  I asked Fat Nancy for something to eat, she said, 'Take it off the shelf -

  As great as you are a man,

  You'll never be greater than yourself.'

  I told her I didn't really care

  High water everywhere"

  -- Asinistra
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