So tomorrow morning brings the second installment of The Quaz, my weekly Q&A with a random person of note from entertainment/sports/politics/etc.
A hint: March Madness is the theme.
So tomorrow morning brings the second installment of The Quaz, my weekly Q&A with a random person of note from entertainment/sports/politics/etc.
A hint: March Madness is the theme.
Okay, try this again…typed a message and the website lost it!!
Jeff,
I just read your article that was posted on the CNN website about your local Borders closing down. I could never agree with a person any more than I do with you right now. There is nothing like the feel of a good book. It is like being in love; everytime you flip the pages it has a special feel, every book has a special scent that when triggered you think of nothing but that book! The only difference being that I love the smell of an old leather bound book and let’s face it…sweaty leather is not appealing!
I digress. Last year I returned to college after losing my job. At the age of 36 I am considered the “old” guy in my classes. I have written many papers and even given a speech about the love and joy of a hard bound book. We live in a gotta get it now, have it now, 24/7 technology driven society. We care more about Twitter and Facebook than we do in electing our government. Do you think Thomas Jefferson had “tweeting” in mind in 1776?
Could you find anyone under 30 who knows who Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is? How about Mark Twain or Ray Bradbury? I was taught by passionate teachers who told us to envision being in the story or being surrounded by it. Don’t read it but feel it, smell it, and breathe it. My first love was “Island of the Blue Dolphins”. Then I moved to “Cricket in Times Square”, “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” to now where my passion is reading Ted Bell or the man, the myth, the legend, Stephen King.
Sports are the same way. Find me anyone younger than 30 who knows what “Wide Wold of Sports” was. Where are the Larry Birds, the Magic Johnsons? The Vince Lombardi and Knute Rockne? What about old school racing, where the drivers wrenched on their cars and slept in trailers? This gotta have it now 24/7 society is losing touch with reality. Did you ever have a teacher or even a parent ask you how you would have survied X number of years ago? What would your answer be now?
Sigh, now I sound like the old man on the porch yelling at the kids to get off of his lawn. Just thought I would say thank you for the wonderful article and that is was nice to know someone still had the joy of reading a book, not a screen.