Saturday, August 16, 2008

Just to be clear . . .

I was an Elvis fan before most of you were born.
I stopped being an Elvis fan before most of you were born.
When he was brand new, he was real -- a true king of rock, a founding father. I damn near worshipped him.
That didn't last long. Within what seemed like minutes, he suddenly became the Colonel's whore -- mired in mindless commercial pig crap. Tragically, that's where he left it.
So the quotations under Wisdom of the King are kinda tongue-in-cheek.
They are also courtesy of Garrison Keillor.

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