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Post by billchemerka on Dec 22, 2011 16:58:11 GMT -5
The January issue of Texas Monthly features an article about Phil Collins, his Alamo interests, his collection and his forthcoming book.
[Allen: Although I was interviewed multiple times for the article, you'll be amused at the extensive coverage we got about Phil's contribution to Music of the Alamo: From 19th Century Ballads to Big-Screen Soundtracks.]
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Post by Allen Wiener on Dec 22, 2011 17:34:45 GMT -5
Great! -- did they spell my name right?  Wait -- I see that "extensive" is in ital, so this is not what I thought it was, is it? (Was that at all grammatically correct? There is a good deal of wine down here in the Sunshine State today.) |
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Post by billchemerka on Dec 22, 2011 18:21:19 GMT -5
Great! -- did they spell my name right? Wait -- I see that "extensive" is in ital, so this is not what I thought it was, is it? (Was that at all grammatically correct? There is a good deal of wine down here in the Sunshine State today.) Yup! Extensive was in italics! Alas, the book's title was not mentioned or its authors. Go figure. ;D On second thought, not being named was a good thing: it was the magazine's annual Bum Steers Awards issue! |
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Dec 22, 2011 20:10:35 GMT -5
Yup, Bill. Don't want to get confused with a bum steer.
Journalists. You can't live with them and you can't shoot them. Wait. I was one for 13 years. Scratch that last bit.
Paul
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Post by teresa1971 on Dec 22, 2011 20:58:52 GMT -5
Good Article, I bought the magazine today so, I can read it!!!! Teresa  |
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Post by billchemerka on Dec 22, 2011 21:03:18 GMT -5
Yup, Bill. Don't want to get confused with a bum steer. Journalists. You can't live with them and you can't shoot them. Wait. I was one for 13 years. Scratch that last bit. Paul ;D |
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Post by Jim Boylston on Dec 23, 2011 15:22:32 GMT -5
The January issue of Texas Monthly features an article about Phil Collins, his Alamo interests, his collection and his forthcoming book. [Allen: Although I was interviewed multiple times for the article, you'll be amused at the extensive coverage we got about Phil's contribution to Music of the Alamo: From 19th Century Ballads to Big-Screen Soundtracks.] I had the same experience with Texas Monthly. I was interviewed fairly extensively (twice) for an article about that bogus Crockett letter that the state was going to purchase a couple of years ago. I shared a lot of my research (prior to the publication of Crockett in Congress) and wasn't given even the slightest mention in the published article. Oh well, fool me once... Jim |
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Post by Allen Wiener on Dec 23, 2011 15:29:46 GMT -5
Thus continues the decline in journalism.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Dec 25, 2011 18:42:18 GMT -5
I bought my Texas Monthly with the Phil Collins article Friday at H.E.B. and was reading it in a long check out line. A young tatooed/ pierced cashier asked me what the article was about and his eyes just glazed over when I told him. Surprisingly, he said he had never heard of Collins and two of the key Alamo leaders. If I had failed to mention the Alamo and Crockett, he wouldn't have understood the subject of the article in our brief conversation. It was a good Texas Monthly piece, but I'm not talking to musically and historically ignorant cashiers for a few weeks.  |
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Dec 25, 2011 19:44:46 GMT -5
I'm not surprised. I encounter that all time. You might expect it up here in New Hampshire, but I lived in San Antonio and the Dallas area at various times and got the same response from folks in Texas as well.
Paul
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Post by sloanrodgers on Dec 25, 2011 20:18:48 GMT -5
Yea, people are often shockingly ignorant on subjects that are outside their field of interest, but some topics are just common knowledge, especially in locales where you're overwelmed with the history of certain things through the media. I went out with a lady friend a few years ago and while we were talking about history with people at coffee shop, she asked: "Which came first WW I or WW II?" I played it off as a joke, but she momemtarily didn't know and for a second I thought I was sitting next to Lisa Kudrow's character on Friends.
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Post by Jim Boylston on Dec 26, 2011 10:53:40 GMT -5
Yea, people are often shockingly ignorant on subjects that are outside their field of interest, but some topics are just common knowledge, especially in locales where you're overwelmed with the history of certain things through the media. I went out with a lady friend a few years ago and while we were talking about history with people at coffee shop, she asked: "Which came first WW I or WW II?" I played it off as a joke, but she momemtarily didn't know and for a second I thought I was sitting next to Lisa Kudrow's character on Friends.Yikes!  |
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Post by Kevin Young on Dec 26, 2011 11:20:23 GMT -5
The January issue of Texas Monthly features an article about Phil Collins, his Alamo interests, his collection and his forthcoming book. [Allen: Although I was interviewed multiple times for the article, you'll be amused at the extensive coverage we got about Phil's contribution to Music of the Alamo: From 19th Century Ballads to Big-Screen Soundtracks.] I had the same experience with Texas Monthly. I was interviewed fairly extensively (twice) for an article about that bogus Crockett letter that the state was going to purchase a couple of years ago. I shared a lot of my research (prior to the publication of Crockett in Congress) and wasn't given even the slightest mention in the published article. Oh well, fool me once... Jim Are you suggesting that the folks that hand out the Bum Steer awards should get one themselves... ;D |
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Post by Allen Wiener on Dec 26, 2011 11:48:13 GMT -5
Sounds right, Kevin!
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Post by sloanrodgers on Dec 27, 2011 17:10:16 GMT -5
Yikes! Even the smartest people get brain freeze once in awhile. Last night I pushed my car clicker a few times to open my house door and felt like a dope.  |
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