To Mitchell (whose birthday is tomorrow) - my circus-performer dear friend, heads up to you:
Wanted you to check out the following clip (it's about half an hour long, so settle in). Ernie Hilbert and Paul Fleming do a monthly show to accompany Ernie's incredibly popular poetry newsletter that he's been putting out since the dawn of time. It started out as an emailed newsletter (I've been receiving it for years) - and Ernie has recently segued into blogging and video (his newsletter - with a vibrant chatty brilliant audience - has morphed beautifully into these new forms - so cool). Once a month, Ernie and Paul sit down with a theme - say, baseball - or law - or vodka - and riff on that one theme. But to say "riff" is not completely correct, because the amount of research that goes into each one of these episodes is intense. For each theme, poems are compiled, trivia, movie clips, music clips ... Ernie's readership bombards him on a monthly basis with suggestions to go along with each upcoming theme. It's so much fun. Click around the website, you'll see how interesting it is, how much is there.
ANYWAY - preamble over. October's theme is "CIRCUS".
Ernie and Paul, seated at an ironing board with their sound equipment (because, you know, that's what you do), chat about Yeats, Monty Python, KISS, Chaplin ... the connecting thread in all of them being "circus". It's great stuff.
Mitchell (and others), you'll love it. Check it out!
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