Yada, Yada, Yada to read more of Harry’s drivel: www.lincolndemocrat.com

I include a usually italicized disclaimer at the end of each of my now mostly weekly columns in the Duluth Reader. I can’t italicize on my blog’s title bar but they read something like that. For the past few years I only write in streaks in the blog. I usually upload a link to the latest columns I’ve published in the Reader but I think I’ve missed doing that for the next two. Maybe I’ll rectify that later today or tomorrow as I prepare for the 12 minutes lecture I’ve been asked to give at my 55th Mankato High School Reunion this coming weekend. In fact that reunion inspired the rough draft I’ve written for the column I’m submitting for the week following. Its currently titled “Sin, Sex, Booze and Wine.”

I would like to return to daily or at least more frequent blogging. Since 1999 when I started my preblogging era snowbizz.com website the Internet is the most complete diary of my endeavors. I like having a single place even with its millions (if not tens of millions) or words. I need an AI level search function for it however. The basic one I have now is too basic and depends on my memories to locate old posts long semi-forgotten.

But I’ve eaten up six of the 30 minutes I’ve allotted for this post. Here’s a picture (its not a photo really with a cell phone). I just uploaded it to my Flickr account where I store old pics going back to my 2005ish trip to Denmark and may use it for my intro to my 12 minutes talk.

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Clockwise from upper left an old Newsweek I bought in 2006 to research a book about a DFL Scandal of the 1970’s with a politics of Joy VP who was about to be chewed up by Vietnam, The Otaknam the Mankato High yearbook whose editor from my time just wrote me that she photocopied my Agnostic’s Prayer” that I included in my recent Book that is available on Amazon and on the bottom starting from the lower left a page of roughly 28 things I’d like to race through in my 12 minutes followed by about 60 images I picked out of my Flickr account to accompany a story to keep people awake through my dry monologue.

In the center is the book I started reading. I’ve only managed about 10 pages so far which I initially was going to use on what I’d like to be a daily feature on the blog about the hundreds of books I own that I’ve been to busy watching Tic Toc and other Internet drivel to read. This book which earned both a Pulitzer and a Booker History Prize (I think) is about a period and place in US History that is a void I wish to fill. New York in the decades before Alexis de Tocqueville roamed America before he wrote his summary of American Democracy circa 1830.

19 minutes down.

That’s enough. I’m going to make a sandwich and watch an episode of a clever French series about their Hollywood film industry Dix pour cent.

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