{"id":36317,"date":"2025-04-24T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36317"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:20:12","slug":"paper-chase-todays-column-in-the-duluth-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36317","title":{"rendered":"Paper Chase &#8211;  Today&#8217;s column in the Duluth Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36313\">Last post <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36325\">Next post<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A NOTE FOR SUBSTACK READERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I only occasionally proof read my blog with any diligance. Like Trump&#8217;s once famous tweets they can be pretty spontaneous. For the Reader, the Duluth Reader, I make an attempt to clean them up. The paper&#8217;s editor Jim Lundstrom is grossly overworked and has done his best to keep oxford commas out of my copy. When I wade into his first love, American movies, I tread softly. When I raised the subject of John Houseman I should have expected close scrutiny. In our region of 150,000 people there can only be a dozen or less who know the subject as well as Jim. In fact, Jim spent a day with Houseman years ago. My fact checking by Jim was scrupulous. Because Harvard was the subtext related to President Trump&#8217;s bullying I submitted the sign I painted and referenced in the beginning of my column. Jim chose to replace it with a portrait of the actor Houseman. I have no objections but I am inserting my sign here below that of the Oscar winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Nots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I began the column 25 years ago I titled it <strong>Not Eudora<\/strong>. Eudora Welty is a southern regionalist short story writer of some renown. She had a story in my freshman lit book. Since I too am a Welty I thought it would be mildly amusing to renounce any link with her. I was not Eudora.<\/p>\n<p>That was then. Since I began challenging our very unLincoln-like, Trump <em>deep throat<\/em>, Congressman Stauber, I had the Reader change the NOT to <strong>Not Your Usual Republican.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Substackers, I only rarely put my full Reader columns in <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\">Lincolndemocrat.com<\/a>.  Since they put the Reader at risk of a Trump lawsuit I figure the least I can do is direct readers to their site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54462081699_d119013eaf_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/131\/245\/131245\/header_360x\/26571_images.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nJohn Houseman in his Paper Chase role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper Chase<\/strong><br \/>\nIt begins:<\/p>\n<p>My daughter, who is proving to be the teacher my friends once told me I could be, has a super power. It\u2019s networking. She put it to good use last week as Denfeld\u2019s theater adviser asking me me to paint a sign for their sold-out musical Legally Blonde. If you missed it, that\u2019s your loss. It knocked my socks off.<br \/>\nI told my grandson, who got a leading role, without his mother\u2019s help, \u201cHell, I\u2019d marry you and I wasn\u2019t on the witness stand.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an inside joke for anyone who saw the production. <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/04\/24\/131245-paper-chase\">Read the rest at the Reader. Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post A NOTE FOR SUBSTACK READERS I only occasionally proof read my blog with any diligance. 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