6 thoughts on “Secret Lives Of Werewolves”

1. I am a huge Warren Zevon fan. “Lawyers, Guns & Money” is probably my all time favorite song of his. In fact, I use it on my cell phone as a ring tone to alert me that my son is calling. Go figure! Imagine my dismay years ago after discovering that my LP copy of “Excitable Boy”, is missing the entire last stanza of that song:
   Now I’m hiding in Honduras
   I’m a desperate man
   Send lawyers, guns and money
   The shit has hit the fan

   I don’t think that censors did that, but it is funny that it’s missing.

   I also heard from a very religious friend of mine (and also a huge Zevon fan) years before he died that he was a man of deep faith.

   RIP Warren!

2. Of all the tired leftist tropes, and there are a LOT of them, the “me decade, the greed of the 80″s” is the worst. Childish and ignorant don’t begin to describe it.

   PS: Cold war “paranoia” is a close second. I use the scare quotes because what, there was no Soviet Union with nukes? It was just paranoia? God I hate the American left.

3. I highly recommend the book that Crystal Zevon wrote, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead.” Unvarnished is putting it mildly.

4. I always liked finding a spiritual lyric in a Zevon song, kind of like an Easter egg in a videogame. I think he really liked creating “WTH?” moments of all kinds in his songs. As with David, Solomon and John Donne, faith and genius can be a complicated but transcendant thing.

5. “I’ll sleep when I’m Dead”?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YMkkQO5HUXM

6. MItch: Since when did you start being a fan of First Things? I’ve subscribed for years but really there are only a few of us in the Twin Cities.

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