[MD] Best Wishes to All of My Old Friends

Sat May 16 20:42:30 PDT 2020

Interesting times, hey?

As Bill Hicks would say 'It times like this, you see people's (and co(u)ntries) genuine colo(u)rs!' Heh, heh, heh...

Fortunately, where I live there's no known Corona Virus infections but I look around the world and can see quite a difference of Quality in how this relatively minor infection (if it had seen off a billion people by this stage - I'd be concerned - it's no where near that...) has been regarded & treated.

I wonder which co(u)ntries have had the best policies to deal wirh it?  South Korea?   New Zealand?  Sweden?  What's YOUR opinon in this regard?   I know it isn't the US let alone the UK.  In fact it's laughable here - we have some clown in southern England called 'Mr Johnson' thinking he's a prime minister and who got the virus!  LOL!  That made my year (or at least a month) comedy-wise.  I love looking at his latest videos now - witb the sound off and listening to a certain song by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (I'll give you a hint it begins with FU).   More seriously, I wish people like him & Trump would just go away and retire on Richard Branson's island... think what Mark Twain said about people wanting to become leaders?!!   (Never mind, I had to deal with Punk in the 1970s and the new Romantics plus the SMITHS & Thatcher in the 1980s so it has been worse).

I leave a final thought for you to ponder... is all this Corona-19 infection media blitz simply deflecting the (so-called) general public from more critical issues?

Kind regards to all; sleep tight,

Ant

P.S. Hope you enjoyed your European travels Krimel.  Sorry you felt Horse & me had betrayed you by revealing your 'real' name.  But 'get real', do you think anyone is THAT interested?

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From: Moq_Discuss <moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org> on behalf of Jan-Anders Andersson <jananderses at telia.com>
Sent: 25 April 2020 20:35
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Subject: Re: [MD] Best Wishes to All of My Old Friends

Hello everyone of you MOQers

Great that this line is still open!

I am well, playing my accordion and working on the sequel of Money and the Art...

best wishes to
you all

> 25 apr. 2020 kl. 21:42 skrev Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello old friends,
>
> A couple years ago I sold everything, gave away what I couldn't sell, and
> moved from Chicago to Florida. I bought a shack perched precariously close
> to a canal in the swamps just outside Satsuma where I spend my days sitting
> in the sunshine reading and taking photos of gators, otters, and blue
> herons. I was delighted the other day to see a reference to Zen and the Art
> of Motorcycle Maintenance in Quichotte (pronounced Key-Shot) by Salman
> Rushdie but then again Rushdie seems to read everything.
>
> I am no longer writing as much as I did up north. I think part of that has
> to do with how it is sunny and warm and pleasant here even in December and
> January and February whereas in Chicago the weather was intent on killing
> me six months out of the year. I also like to think what I do write now has
> more quality than the torrent of words I once produced though in that I am
> most likely fooling myself.
>
> I am also exercising quite a lot these days: walking, biking, running,
> swimming. I daily take a chug from the fountain of youth and dammit if it
> doesn't seem to be working. Listening to lots of music both new and old,
> catch myself cranking up the volume. Miles Davis seems particularly apropos
> to these long and sunny Florida afternoons.
>
> Life is good.
>
> Dan
>
> A rip tide is raging
> And the life guard is away
> But the ocean doesn't want me today
> The ocean doesn't want me today
> (Tom Waits)
>
>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:11 PM Adrie Kintziger <parser666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matt , and Krimel,and probably more of the usual suspects.. ,in the
>> run-up to my retirement and my daughter buying a house that i had to do up
>> myself (3 yrs work),
>> i halted my postings to the list.After some time it went silent.Probably i
>> was peeled out of the onion. Since then, i never checked anymore, nor did i
>> hear anything.
>> So you are the first ,Matt.
>> I still read many books.I fish extensively.Still riding my bicycle daily,
>> do about 12000 miles a year.I have the bulk of time now.
>> But its difficult to ride my normal tracks under lockdown and with the
>> Dutch borders closed up-normally i always ride in the Netherlands, but have
>> to stay in Belgium nowadays.
>> We cannot fish in the canal under the lockdown,and they are patrolling the
>> little forest we have there , so the only thing we can do for now is
>> cleaning , pruning the trees and
>> just sit over there , on some distance from each other. Its our personal
>> tranquility base , so we have to guard it.
>>
>> I do not know where you live Matt, and Krimel,i hope its a location that
>> allows you to weather this viral storms ...
>> Missed you all, Krimel included.
>> Adrie
>>
>> Op za 25 apr. 2020 om 19:36 schreef Scribe <Scribe at club-hub.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>> Good to hear from you. I too have reflected on the old day on the MoQ. In
>>> my
>>> memory they take shape as Good old days in a way few reflection on the
>> past
>>> do these days.
>>> I left the MoQ after Horse and Ant threaten to reveal my true name,
>> which I
>>> thought was a betrayal of trust. I went to graduate school in
>> communication
>>> but dropped out after a six years as an ABD with a master's, mostly
>> because
>>> I got a full time teaching gig. I mostly taught Psychology but also
>> classes
>>> in Communication and Philosophy. I retired last year and spent couple of
>>> months in Europe riding trains with my wife. We had similar plans this
>> year
>>> but they have been delayed...
>>> There is a serious irony for me with respect to the MoQ. When I entered
>>> graduate school, I was averaging four or five page of writing a day for
>> the
>>> community. Graduate school gave me writer's block. It was too focused,
>> too
>>> controlled, it had to be done. Don't get me wrong I wrote a lot for
>>> graduate
>>> school but it was not for fun and other than being an asshole on
>> Facebook I
>>> don't do it much these days.
>>> Anyway, love me or hate me I miss all of you, well most of you, fiercely.
>>> Krimel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Moq_Discuss <moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org> On Behalf Of
>>> Matt
>>> Kundert
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 11:41 AM
>>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>>> Subject: [MD] Best Wishes to All of My Old Friends
>>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> It's been three years since I've checked this email and five since I
>> wrote
>>> to the listserve.  I was just talking to a friend, outside, 8 feet away,
>> on
>>> a fold-out chair I brought with me, and she brought up ZMM.  We chatted a
>>> little while about it, and am going to give her one of the many copies I
>>> still have squirreled away.  I haven't read it since I taught it in 2014,
>>> but I still think it is one of the most remarkably structured books.
>> I've
>>> been teaching "close reading" for over 10 years now, and its
>> responsiveness
>>> is a sign of its enduring quality of thought and feeling.
>>>
>>> But that's just, maybe, the required nostalgic overture.  The real
>>> nostalgia
>>> I wanted to toss into this still pool was a Hello to any of my old
>> friends
>>> and interlocutors who still receive these emails.  I still feel that my
>>> participation many years ago was integral to my intellectual and
>> stylistic
>>> growth.
>>>
>>> I hope everyone is well.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Matt
>>> Former Apostate
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