What are your candidates reading? and other things.
The Trib asked candidates for U.S. Senate, governor and County Board president about their reading. The responses are often predictable, occasionally interesting and sometimes amusing.
A bit of back story. Kirk Dillard, who is running in the Republican primary for governor, outraged fellow Republicans back before the Iowa caucus by saying nice things about Obama. (See here.) Some of the other Republican candidates are running ads attacking him for that now. The amusing, and rather ironic, bit is that these are the same candidates touting Doris Kearns Goodwin as an author they'd like to meet or her book, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, as one they would "re-read" to prepare for office. I think they missed the entire thesis of the book, which is about how Lincoln worked with his opponents, bringing some into the administration!
You know, after the whole Blagojevich/Burris hoo-ha, the Republicans ought to win both the gubernatorial and senatorial elections here. But, once again, they may shoot themselves in both feet.
In other amusing political news, I have to hand it to Andy McKenna's spokesman for one of the best retorts I've heard:
"I will not mince words when it comes to Andy McKenna. As GOP Party Chairman, he was an unmitigated disaster. As a candidate, he is coward. As a Republican, he is a cancer"....GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft
"He's totally off base. Andy's a Capricorn."...McKenna spokesman Lance Trover
Last week, I went to the Goodman to see Brian Dennehy in two one-act plays: Eugene O'Neill's Hughie and Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Each is about an old man facing his past, but they are very different types and deal in very different ways. It was an interesting juxtaposition of plays and worked quite well.
My neighbor, the ceramics artist, has a show at the Catholic Theological Union's Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery. It's right around the corner from me, so I braved the cold and snow (which really wasn't so bad!) and went to the opening on Wednesday. Very glad I did, because Marva gave a short talk and Q&A about her work.
Last night, I went to a Jazz at Symphony Center program, The Kings of Crescent City, with a group of great musicians led by Victor Goines, who is now Director of Jazz Studies at Northwestern University. They played music of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and, of course, Louis Armstrong. The joint was jumpin'!
By 11:00 this morning, I had: gone to an estate sale, the dry cleaners, Office Max (needed some storage boxes), the grocery store, the produce store and the library.
The condo board decided to have a slew of plumbing issues addressed, so we've had plumbers in and out all week. They are still working on a few things, which I hope will be done soon!
I am off to a friend's for brunch tomorrow and promised to bring a coffee cake. I was going to stop by a bakery, but have decided to do the baking myself.
A bit of back story. Kirk Dillard, who is running in the Republican primary for governor, outraged fellow Republicans back before the Iowa caucus by saying nice things about Obama. (See here.) Some of the other Republican candidates are running ads attacking him for that now. The amusing, and rather ironic, bit is that these are the same candidates touting Doris Kearns Goodwin as an author they'd like to meet or her book, Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, as one they would "re-read" to prepare for office. I think they missed the entire thesis of the book, which is about how Lincoln worked with his opponents, bringing some into the administration!
You know, after the whole Blagojevich/Burris hoo-ha, the Republicans ought to win both the gubernatorial and senatorial elections here. But, once again, they may shoot themselves in both feet.
In other amusing political news, I have to hand it to Andy McKenna's spokesman for one of the best retorts I've heard:
"I will not mince words when it comes to Andy McKenna. As GOP Party Chairman, he was an unmitigated disaster. As a candidate, he is coward. As a Republican, he is a cancer"....GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft
"He's totally off base. Andy's a Capricorn."...McKenna spokesman Lance Trover
Last week, I went to the Goodman to see Brian Dennehy in two one-act plays: Eugene O'Neill's Hughie and Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Each is about an old man facing his past, but they are very different types and deal in very different ways. It was an interesting juxtaposition of plays and worked quite well.
My neighbor, the ceramics artist, has a show at the Catholic Theological Union's Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Gallery. It's right around the corner from me, so I braved the cold and snow (which really wasn't so bad!) and went to the opening on Wednesday. Very glad I did, because Marva gave a short talk and Q&A about her work.
Last night, I went to a Jazz at Symphony Center program, The Kings of Crescent City, with a group of great musicians led by Victor Goines, who is now Director of Jazz Studies at Northwestern University. They played music of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and, of course, Louis Armstrong. The joint was jumpin'!
By 11:00 this morning, I had: gone to an estate sale, the dry cleaners, Office Max (needed some storage boxes), the grocery store, the produce store and the library.
The condo board decided to have a slew of plumbing issues addressed, so we've had plumbers in and out all week. They are still working on a few things, which I hope will be done soon!
I am off to a friend's for brunch tomorrow and promised to bring a coffee cake. I was going to stop by a bakery, but have decided to do the baking myself.