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2022 Tanglewood concerts

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BerkshireLinks is home to our Tanglewood coverage; it dates to 2000, when we began aggregating material that was beyond the purview of this site. For several years, we maintained comprehensive schedule and ticket info. for all the venues, museums, parks and attractions in the Berkshires, including jobs and hotel reservations. Also, our theatre critic, Franny Hall (1918-2014) reviewed every play in the area for fifteen years.

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The outdoors, in the midst of the hustle and bustle around the Lenox library, is often a felicitous place to gather one’s thoughts and collect them in sentences on paper.

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Norwegian Bachelor Asshole

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Garrisons are both born and made –
one houses straight shooters whose works
may excite the poets; the other is unarmed,
dangerous, and shoots blank, vapid verse.

Dave Read

Garrison Keillor takes a stab at poetry:

“Now and then people ask me why we didn’t have Dylan on the show,” the former host of “Prairie Home Companion” writes in “Living With Limericks,” which was published last week. “Because I don’t care to be associated with him, that’s why.”

“I think that ‘My Back Pages’ is one of the worst songs ever written,” he continues. “I could name others. It’s no wonder he took a pseudonym, so as to avoid bringing shame on the Zimmerman family.”

There is a songwriter named Bob
Who makes some people’s hearts throb
They find a thrill in
Listening to Dylan
And for me it’s more like a job.

Copied from the Star Tribune.

BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN SCARES THE QUEEN

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Queen Elizabeth

Besides USA, ‘The Firm’ has hurt Ireland & India the most

Queen Elizabeth

Sources suspect Megxit merely may be another global distraction, designed to echo that ’60s infestation of Beatles???

and now a look at Sports

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Four Horsemen

Outlined against a blue-gray November sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Thomas, Cavanaugh, Barrett, and Trump.
Four Horsemen
They formed the logo of the Notre Dame-infused whirlwind before which one demographic bucket after another of the TV-dumb were swept over the virtual precipice by the real virus, itself impotent, unless people agree to swap air among friends and foes.

I breathe out, you breathe in – it’s the American way.

Trump pardons Toe Furky!

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38% of families report permanent Trump rifts, only 29% report separate tables for vegans.

PrezDJ Trump let vegans off the hook for doing their Putin-pleasing meddling with America’s only homegrown holiday – and he did it at the kid’s table!

Trump pardons tofurky

Death of Ted’s SCOTUS dream?

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Terrible Ted Cruz

Dropout schools Harvard Law grad Cruz

Terrible Ted Cruz

Smart lawyers NEVER ask a question they don’t know the answer to, yet Cruz asks Zuckerberg: Who elected you?

Mr. Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO: Thank you for your query, Senator Cruz. As you know, I am an unfettered capitalist, an unregulated entrepreneur, if you will, and not an elected office holder.

My company dug the hole your voters crawled out of, sir.

Mark Zuckerberg

No, Virginian, words don’t hurt

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virginians

Shocking post-election REVEAL

Some House Members don’t know how plain English works!

“We need to not ever use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again,” said Representative Abigail Spanberger, who narrowly won re-election in Virginia. “We lost good members because of that.”

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Helpful Harry* sez:

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. (check it out ->)

The right thing to do is to get busy and write bills designed to guarantee that nobody leaves elementary school until they know how to read by book and how to write by hand. Book-learning made us into the savior of nations, and reading shall keep us free!

*Harry, our helper, is both a woman named Harriet and a man named Harold.

About the headline: read the wonderful story of Virginia O’Hanlon and the most reprinted editorial in newspaper history.

How a Bill Becomes a Law

Before a bill becomes a law, it must be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and the President.

Laws begin as ideas. Since TV came into god-like omnipresence in the 1950s, almost all bills begin in the room where they draw up schemes about how to convince you that if you smoke brands such as Raleigh cigarettes, then the laws of nature will be suspended so that you won’t die of lung cancer, your wife will not choke on second-hand smoke, and your children will not grow up to become addicts!

FAKE IS REAL!

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So Miss D. Kupp schooled the boy-like president

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Whether fake is a good thing or a bad thing is ripe for discussion. But who has time for that?

AOC peeps dig Trump

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Hispanic women hand FL to Trump

Who knew that brutish men are preferred by women, at all?

GOP reorganizes to welcome hate

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Strom Thurman, public bigot

Dateline the Nineteen Sixties, not the Ken Burns version

Strom Thurman, public bigot
Strom Thurman, public bigot

A magnet for controversy during his nearly half-century Senate career, Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964, primarily because of his vehement opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and endorsed Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. In the months before switching, he had “been critical of the Democratic Administration for … enactment of the Civil Rights Law,” while Goldwater boasted of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

New York Times, Sept. 16, 1964.

Incent me?

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Nothing is bound to incense the public more than to say it needs to incent Big Pharma before they will make the drugs that keep us alive.

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