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When in Rome
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Telegraph Road |
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| Number of Posts: | 36232 |
| Registered on: | 1/17/2011 |
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re: I work with a woman who said she doesn’t understand how to read a weather radar.
Posted by When in Rome on 5/23/26 at 9:20 am to cbree88
My toddlers can read a weather radar, lol
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re: Wow, I almost just made a huge mistake (re: 3 Musketeers)
Posted by When in Rome on 5/13/26 at 4:55 pm to biglego
I mean I get that Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are the 3 musketeers and that D'Artagnan is not one when we meet him, but throughout the majority of the D'Artagnan romances, he is the 4th musketeer. :rolleyes:
re: Wow, I almost just made a huge mistake (re: 3 Musketeers)
Posted by When in Rome on 5/13/26 at 1:51 pm to biglego
quote:Well technically the first novel in the trilogy is its own novel called The Three Musketeers so you're not entirely wrong? :lol:
I’m dumb bc I thought three musketeers was a standalone book
Also WHY is it not called THE FOUR MUSKETEERS? I would also love to know this.
re: When is the last time you’ve returned something?
Posted by When in Rome on 5/13/26 at 10:54 am to LSUGUMBO
quote:This
The nearest Amazon Dropoff is at Whole Foods about 10 minutes from the house. No box necessary- just start the return, get the QR Code, bag it up, slap the label on it and drop it in the bin.
re: Can anyone recommend a book about Jean Laffite..
Posted by When in Rome on 5/12/26 at 8:56 pm to tgrfan87
Wow, I almost just made a huge mistake (re: 3 Musketeers)
Posted by When in Rome on 5/12/26 at 8:26 pm
I had purchased a box set of The Three Musketeers which led me to believe it was a trilogy which included The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Man in the Iron Mask. I was just about to start The Man in the Iron Mask when I happened to read the introduction, which mentioned the work "The Vicomte De Bragelonne". Boy, was I mistaken! I now know that the third novel actually includes The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask. I almost just skipped way ahead without knowing it. Crazy! I guess I'm posting this so others don't make my mistake. Those who knew this already, feel free to laugh at my blunder. lol.
So this is the "3rd novel" lol I guess I have to read them all! Has anyone else read them?
So this is the "3rd novel" lol I guess I have to read them all! Has anyone else read them?
re: should i recommend Confederacy of Dunces to my sons?
Posted by When in Rome on 5/12/26 at 11:38 am to selfgen
Such a great book that everyone should read. Definitely recommend it to your sons.
re: What are you reading?
Posted by When in Rome on 5/12/26 at 7:25 am to dirtsandwich
Just finished Twenty Years After and now about to start The Man in the Iron Mask (Three Musketeers trilogy)
re: What 1000 page classic to read first?
Posted by When in Rome on 5/12/26 at 7:24 am to Cosmo
The Count of Monte Cristo is phenomenal. I have not read the other two yet but hear great things. I went straight from The Count of Monte Cristo to The Three Musketeers (also Dumas) and liked it so much I am reading the whole trilogy. Just finished Twenty Years After and about to start The Man in the Iron Mask.
Don't sleep on War & Peace either!
Don't sleep on War & Peace either!
re: Things around the house you're irrational about?
Posted by When in Rome on 5/3/26 at 9:47 pm to warm
quote:Well, at least you’re an optimist!
Every day I find half a dozen half full bottles.
re: Things you started doing later in life that you should have done earlier..
Posted by When in Rome on 5/1/26 at 7:06 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
Reading classic literature
re: We're all stuck in a rut trying to do what people who lied to us told us to do
Posted by When in Rome on 5/1/26 at 12:17 pm to Norbert
quote:This. I get the OP's frustration but we are living in the most privileged society of all time. It's easy to shift the mindset to gratitude when you think about what previous generations had to go through just to survive.
We are the most privileged group of people to ever walk the earth
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/30/26 at 11:56 am to LegendInMyMind
quote:I am all ears if you have any recs! :cheers:
May he lead you to even more great music.
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/30/26 at 11:40 am to LegendInMyMind
quote:Yes!!
Are you just now discovering Guy Clark? If so, I am jealous!
quote:Whoah, will do!! Thanks for the rec :cheers:
documentary/autobiographical movie "Without Getting Killed or Caught" you should. It is a great telling of the lives of Guy, his wife Susanna, and Townes Van Zandt.
quote::lol: :lol:
(I have no idea why it is on the channel it is, though)
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/30/26 at 9:47 am to Twenty 49
quote:If you like that aspect of the song, you may like the song "The Guitar" by Guy Clark. I recently heard it for the first time and had the same reaction to the big reveal at the end. :lol:
The big reveal in The Ride is pretty awesome the first time you hear it
I've heard it 1,000 times, and it still gives me a chill when he hits that line. "You don't have to call me Mister, Mister, ..."
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/30/26 at 8:54 am to MKP2004
quote:
Willie has outlived another one.
Another classic :bow:
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/30/26 at 7:26 am to Swamp Angel
quote:Well, he wrote it and was not credited. :lol: the quote I put about him not wanting to offend the country music community is from Wikipedia, so maybe it's conjecture.
That simply does not sound like the John Prine I knew with songs like In Spite of Ourselves, Spanish Pipedream, and, Illegal Smile among a few others.
Youtube - John Prine talking about writing You Never Even Called Me By My Name with Steve Goodman on a radio show
quote::bow: John Prine is one of the greatest of all time and personally in my top 5. Every song he ever wrote and performed is amazing. I listen to his music every day.
Anyway, while several of y'all turn on a few David Allan Coe tunes, I think I put on some John Prine now for just a little while.
Two awesome books for Prine fans:
John Prine Beyond Words
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John Prine has written songs that have become central to America's musical heritage. In this book, Prine curates a selection of his best loved songs. Over 100 photographs from John Prine's personal collection. Copies of hand-written lyrics showing how the songs evolved. Commentary from John about the songs and photographs. Lyrics and guitar chords for over 60 classic John Prine songs.
''He did a better job of holding up the mirror of art to the 60s and 70s than any of our official literary poets.'' -Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate ''He just has a unique ability to haiku it - it's deceptively insightful. It's at once playing on words and imagery, but expressing something deeper in such a succinct way, in such an exceptional way.'' - Bonnie Raitt
Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine
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John Prine hated giving interviews, but he said much when he talked. Embarrassed by fame, delighted by the smallest things, the first songwriter to read at the Library of Congress, and winner of the Pen Award for Literary Excellence, Prine saw the world unlike anyone else.
The songs from 1971’s John Prine remain spot-on takes of the human condition today, and his writing only got richer, funnier, and more incisive. The interviews in Prine on Prine trace his career evolution, his singular mind, his enduring awareness of social issues, and his acute love of life, from Studs Terkel’s radio interviews from the early ’70s to Mike Leonard’s Today Show packages from the ’80s, Cameron Crowe's early encounter to Ronni Lundy's Shuck Beans, Stack Cake cookbook, and Hot Rod magazine to No Depression’s cover story, through today.
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/29/26 at 10:07 pm to adamau
I’ve been listening to The Highwaymen nonstop for like a month, been on a kick since reading Lonesome Dove really :lol:
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/29/26 at 10:06 pm to Jim Rockford
That’s one of my favorite DAC songs, along with “Living on the Run” and “The Ride”
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/29/26 at 10:02 pm to OWLFAN86
Fun fact about “you never even called me by my name” is that John Prine co wrote it with Steve Goodman but “Prine requested to be uncredited on the song, as he thought it was a "goofy, novelty song" and did not want to "offend the country music community".”
re: RIP David Allan Coe
Posted by When in Rome on 4/29/26 at 10:00 pm to SaintlyTiger88
The big reveal in The Ride is pretty awesome the first time you hear it :lol:
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