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Mar. 18th, 2014
Sonny relates how he and Elvis were among those who kept the first chamber of their guns empty. He notes that this was an especially good practice for Elvis since his temper could explode just like that.
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“I remember one time at the Memphian Theater in Memphis. That’s the movie house that Elvis often takes over for himself and the boys to watch his favorite films. There was a crowd that night. Anyway, he went to the men’s room. He seemed to be there a bit too long. Anyway, one of the guys - he wasn’t a regular member of the crowd, just a friend - anyway, he started to bang on the door and sort of yell in a loud but joking way. I can’t remember who it was, but I guess he was someone who wasn’t close enough to Elvis to start getting too familiar. Anyway, Elvis yells back, ‘Okay, man, okay.’
“But this guy just keeps banging on the door, which was a damn fool way to act as he was to learn pretty soon.
“Apparently Elvis flashed. ‘Goddamnit!’ he yelled as he charged out the door. Then he screamed, ‘Who do you think you are, you motherfucker?’ With that he whipped out his gun, pointed it right at the guy and pulled the trigger. Jesus, thank God, he didn’t have a bullet in that chamber; otherwise he would have blown the man’s head clean off his shoulders.”
-- “Elvis: What Happened?” by Steve Dunleavy
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“I remember one time at the Memphian Theater in Memphis. That’s the movie house that Elvis often takes over for himself and the boys to watch his favorite films. There was a crowd that night. Anyway, he went to the men’s room. He seemed to be there a bit too long. Anyway, one of the guys - he wasn’t a regular member of the crowd, just a friend - anyway, he started to bang on the door and sort of yell in a loud but joking way. I can’t remember who it was, but I guess he was someone who wasn’t close enough to Elvis to start getting too familiar. Anyway, Elvis yells back, ‘Okay, man, okay.’
“But this guy just keeps banging on the door, which was a damn fool way to act as he was to learn pretty soon.
“Apparently Elvis flashed. ‘Goddamnit!’ he yelled as he charged out the door. Then he screamed, ‘Who do you think you are, you motherfucker?’ With that he whipped out his gun, pointed it right at the guy and pulled the trigger. Jesus, thank God, he didn’t have a bullet in that chamber; otherwise he would have blown the man’s head clean off his shoulders.”
-- “Elvis: What Happened?” by Steve Dunleavy
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Afternoon Shower
Mar. 18th, 2014 04:01 pmI opted for the afternoon shower today. Not taking my morning walks, I find myself thrown back on an old question: when is the best time to take my shower?, in the evening?, or after my afternoon nap? The advantage of the post-nap shower is that it really does feel like a new start on your day, a full reboot, though it does cost me from twenty to thirty minutes of my afternoon reading session.
As I stand here looking out the window, feeling very refreshed and invigorated, watching school kids walking home from the bus, I just wish I could look out with the eyes of a twenty-something, but let’s not dwell on this too-familiar note. It is a sign of old age when you repeat yourself again and again and again.
As I stand here looking out the window, feeling very refreshed and invigorated, watching school kids walking home from the bus, I just wish I could look out with the eyes of a twenty-something, but let’s not dwell on this too-familiar note. It is a sign of old age when you repeat yourself again and again and again.
Of Jacques Derrida
Mar. 18th, 2014 07:14 pm“I like to joke that Derrida is a slightly atheistic quasi-Jewish Augustinian, but I am also serious.”
-- John Caputo
Mr. Caputo has written the book “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion”. I am afraid that my liberal education was fairly barren of deconstruction and Derrida, and I am surprised that the philosopher was this partial to religious ideas and aspirations. Nevertheless, it is true that he did not believe in resurrections and heaven and virgin births. As Gary Gutting explains in his interview with Caputo, "He talks of a messiah — but one that never comes; he’s interested in the idea of confessing your sins — but there’s no one to forgive them." I will keep a few quotations from Caputo in that interview.
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-- John Caputo
Mr. Caputo has written the book “The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion”. I am afraid that my liberal education was fairly barren of deconstruction and Derrida, and I am surprised that the philosopher was this partial to religious ideas and aspirations. Nevertheless, it is true that he did not believe in resurrections and heaven and virgin births. As Gary Gutting explains in his interview with Caputo, "He talks of a messiah — but one that never comes; he’s interested in the idea of confessing your sins — but there’s no one to forgive them." I will keep a few quotations from Caputo in that interview.
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