From a Yahoo! article (link) in which Keillor discusses his possible retirement:
"The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage," Keillor told the AP.
-"BB"-
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." "Some of it's magic, and some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way."
Bicycle Bill wrote:From a Yahoo! article (link) in which Keillor discusses his possible retirement:
"The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage," Keillor told the AP.
-"BB"-
Jimmy wasn't the first to fall from a stage, he won't be the last.........we just he doesn't do it again!
On most days I say: "Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been...."
Sometimes I can only say: "There is no dumbass vaccine......"
If something or someone gets you down, just remember: "In a hundred years it all won’t matter.........."
Bicycle Bill wrote:From a Yahoo! article (link) in which Keillor discusses his possible retirement:
"The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage," Keillor told the AP.
-"BB"-
Nah, he's dissing Steven Tyler.
If you want an experience, go to a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
I thought Garrison Keillor was dead.
Serious.
Maybe it's GK's time to retire.
I mean GK's stage presence is amazing ...I mean how long can he take the grind?
Hoist up the mainsail...add a little BAM to the ginger ale...
Heck, I never realized there were that many performers who fell off the stage at one time or another. It almost sounds like something you *HAVE* to do at least once in your career. And if that's the case, then Jimmy was overdue! -"BB"-
"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead." "Some of it's magic, and some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way."
Bicycle Bill wrote:Heck, I never realized there were that many performers who fell off the stage at one time or another. It almost sounds like something you *HAVE* to do at least once in your career. And if that's the case, then Jimmy was overdue! -"BB"-
Hit song- check
Gold record - check
Cover of The Rolling Stone- Check
fall off stage- check
what about drug overdose and multiple trips to rehab?
This morning a reporter rang me up, as they say here, to ask if I am retiring in the spring of 2013, as reported in the papers.
I was 32 when I started A Prairie Home Companion and now I'm looking down the road at 80. So what? Big deal. Welcome to the world.
I love this radio show, which has been a solid fixture in my bumpy life, and I want it to push on bravely into the future with new hosts and a new spirit, and to that end I am planning for the future. The spring of 2013 strikes me as a good time to step quietly into the wings and watch some younger livelier person step out.
No, JB is not being dissed! As someone else said, Jimmy is definitely not the first person to fall off a stage, and he will not be the last. I hope that it never happens to him again. I sing in my church's contemporary praise band, and even though our stage is not 5 feet off the ground it has steep steps, and even though Ms Sammie is an excellent little roadie, I have fallen off the stage twice. I am a little skiddish of the steps, but not skiddish enough to quit doing something I love to do.
Here we are, maybe it's because in spite of all the work we do
It's the child in us we really value
Here we are, with our fins up and our feathers flashing
Here we are, with our coconut shell brassieres chanting
Here we are, maybe it's because in spite of all the work we do
It's the child in us we really value
Here we are, with our fins up and our feathers flashing
Here we are, with our coconut shell brassieres chanting
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