How Many Times Must a Man Fly to Stockholm?

[Michael_ Gee]

At least once. Bob Dylan awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. I almost thought about posting this in the Things That Make You Feel Old thread.

 

[YankeeFan]

 

[Chef2]

I've always thought Bob Dylan was a fascinating person. Not just a great singer/songwriter/artist.......just seems really interesting to me.

 

[Neutral Corner]

In what can be a very public business he has managed to have some private life, and has certainly lived on his own terms. I can't imagine how frustrating interviewing him could be if he wasn't feeling it, let alone the early years when he would actively say all kinds of weird **** just to screw with the reporters.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Hey Honey, remember the time we called the cops on that stoned homeless dude in our yard and it turned out to be a Nobel Prize winner?

Dylan 'Like a Complete Unknown' in N.J.

 

[Amy]

Hey Honey, remember the time we called the cops on that stoned homeless dude in our yard and it turned out to be a Nobel Prize winner?

Dylan 'Like a Complete Unknown' in N.J.

I saw Dylan at one of the neighborhood bars a block from where I lived in my 20s (Grandma's, for the Minnesotan sjers). He was the filthiest human - as in actually dirty - I had ever seen.

 

[YankeeFan]

I saw Dylan at one of the neighborhood bars a block from where I lived in my 20s (Grandma's, for the Minnesotan sjers). He was the filthiest human - as in actually dirty - I had ever seen.

LOL.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I like to think Dylan got this for his work in the Victoria's Secret TV ad a decade ago.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Who was the poster who always said that Bob Dylan plays county fairs now and Roger Waters plays stadiums? Who the hell was that?

 

[Songbird]

 

[UPChip]

I saw Dylan at one of the neighborhood bars a block from where I lived in my 20s (Grandma's, for the Minnesotan sjers). He was the filthiest human - as in actually dirty - I had ever seen.

I live within a mile or two of the hospital in which he was born.


That said, I think this is apt.

 

[ChrisLong]

They're dancing in the streets in Hibbing, where my brother-in-law lives.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Not Slate!

Why Bob Dylan Shouldn’t Have Gotten a Nobel

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/o...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

 

[Dick Whitman]

Not Slate!

Why Bob Dylan Shouldn’t Have Gotten a Nobel

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/o...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

It's not very well-argued. My answer is that playwrights win it with some frequency.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

It's not very well-argued. My answer is that playwrights win it with some frequency.

As a matter of fact, Dylan and George Bernard Shaw are now the only two men to win both the literature Nobel and an Oscar.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

He should go for the NEGOT.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

He should go for the NEGOT.

He's got the N, O. and G. All he needs is to write a musical and do a TV special and bingo!

 

[The Big Ragu]

Reading books is difficult for most people. So it makes perfect sense.

Seriously. ... who or what they will choose in any given year is not predictable. But the thinking behind how they make their ham-handed statements, is as predictable as a circle jerk in the European Parliament. There are some very good American authors (and many of them are actually commercially successful *gasp*), who will never get a sniff of that award. I have little doubt that the impetus for Bob Dylan taking it was to hammer home the point that America is populated by golems who stuff their faces with cheeseburgers all day long and lack the enlightenment of Scandinavian men who wear scarves and understand refined things.

I quote the permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, in all of his foof glory 8 ot 9 years ago: "Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world, not the United States. ... The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining."

What better way to make that point than ignoring the actual, deserving American authors (going on several decades). ... and picking a singer. Bonus points, because Dylan's lyrics were very often protests against American things he didn't like.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Reading books is difficult for most people. So it makes perfect sense.

Seriously. ... who or what they will choose in any given year is not predictable. But the thinking behind how they make their ham-handed statements, is as predictable as a circle jerk in the European Parliament. There are some very good American authors (and many of them are actually commercially successful *gasp*), who will never get a sniff of that award. I have little doubt that the impetus for Bob Dylan taking it was to hammer home the point that America is populated by golems who stuff their faces with cheeseburgers all day long and lack the enlightenment of Scandinavian men who wear scarves and understand refined things.

I quote the permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, in all of his foof glory 8 ot 9 years ago: "Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world, not the United States. ... The US is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining."

What better way to make that point than ignoring the actual, deserving American authors (going on several decades). ... and picking a singer. Bonus points, because Dylan's lyrics were very often protests against American things he didn't like.

Did your record store only sell albums made before 1965?

 

[Jake_Taylor]

He's got the N, O. and G. All he needs is to write a musical and do a TV special and bingo!

Or a guest spot on Fargo for the Emmy.