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I used to have the habit of placing newspaper clips of my review inside the sleeve of the album, as a keepsake. Some readers have found them 40 years later, same way this reader found the Roxy Music draft. Don't think I ever stuck an early draft in an inner sleeve, though. Happy birthday to Jenny.

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Just wanted to add my thanks for Greil introducing me to Quatermass and the Pit. I wouldn't know it without his writing about it, and I have spent many years since showing it to friends and trying to convince them that it (and those closing credits) is remarkable.

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This might be the best exegesis of "Minnesota Nice" I've encountered. Most people get it wrong because they take the phrase at face value and miss the irony. It's all smiles and kind words on the surface, but there's a knife beneath the water.

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I was eight years old when in 1968 and knew Hubert Humphrey as the guy who Nixon beat and who, according to various TV impressionists, talked fast. Later reading Hunter Thompson, Norman Mailer and yourself ("little men have grown into demons" ......"his best 'politics of joy smirk') he was a symbol of the spineless liberal establishment that brought us Vietnam. The war, which Nixon vowed to stop instead of let peter out, upended and undermined the ideas behind Johnson's Great Society, ideas which Humphrey's 1948 speech ended with. Today do you think the war still overshadows the Civil Rights Act, The Great Society and the Voting Rights act as the legacy of both men?

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I want to recommend to all good people reading and writing Greil, to enjoy the AI Trump videos produced by Jabari Jones. They are commercial free, last about one minute each and are ribaldly hilarious. The one titled Debate is especially good!

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It might be of interest that Chester Himes's great lost thriller Run Man Run (lost because it wasn't a Harlem detectives novel) was brought back into print in the Library of America Crime Novels of the 1960s collection last year. An interesting feature of the Harlem detectives books, unique as far as I know, is that there are always two solutions to the mystery: The one that becomes the official account and the true solution that Coffin Ed and Gravedigger find.

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