A few interesting links collected August 16th through August 17th:
- Woodstock: even the memories are muddy – The Globe and Mail – David Crosby judged his performance with Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Neil Young as “stoned and funny and fine.” Yet the recollections of one of his bandmates differ wildly from Crosby’s cozy account. “Woodstock was a bullshit gig, a piece of shit,” Young told biographer Jimmy McDonough. “We played fucking awful. No one was into the music.”
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Simpsons Did It: Laid-Off Workers Keep Up Appearances, Pretend To Be Employed – Earlier this week, the Washington Post shared the story of a man who tried hard to keep up appearances, and to carefully choreograph his routine so his friends and neighbors wouldn’t think of him differently. Finally, he tired of the charade, and outed himself. As an unemployed person.
After he lost his job, Clinton Cole continued to wake up early, dress in a suit, and leave the house. Instead of going to the office, he spent the day in a park or public library. While his family knew about his situation, friends and neighbors didn’t, and he wanted to keep up appearances.
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