With Whom Would you Light Up?
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Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce and Mark Twain.
Reverend Gary Davis. I’d want to hear him play a few songs too of course.
My late wife taught at a women's college in N.C. and had as a student one of Faulkner's grand daughters. She said among the family, there wasn't much conversation about his literary life. To her, he was just Grandpa.
When he went to Hollywood to write scripts, he became homesick and phoned his boss to ask if he could work at home. His boss said yes. They couldn't find him for a while, and finally realized Mississippi was home to him.
When he went to Hollywood to write scripts, he became homesick and phoned his boss to ask if he could work at home. His boss said yes. They couldn't find him for a while, and finally realized Mississippi was home to him.
God, that's hard... There's so many. Ok, in order from most to least (based on how much i might profit from, understand, or enjoy the conversation):
Carl Jung
Alan Watts
Lewis
Bertrand Russell
Tolkien
Twain
Einstein
Carl Jung
Alan Watts
Lewis
Bertrand Russell
Tolkien
Twain
Einstein
I'm going to throw Graham Chapman in there. I think he'd be fun to talk to.
#3 Dr.Seuss, I think it would be fun to have a few drinks, bowls, and hang out and draw with him. 
Vassar Clements. If not him, one of the many jazz greats who smoked a pipe. Ron Carter, Coltrane, Mingus, etc.. 
Actually, I crossed one off my list. I always wanted to smoke with Brian Levine and pick his brain about things he hasn't discussed on his podcast. Earlier this year we enjoyed a pipe away from the crowd at a local pipe show. A very memorable smoke. He was very inviting and incredibly nice. He's also a wealth of knowledge
Actually, I crossed one off my list. I always wanted to smoke with Brian Levine and pick his brain about things he hasn't discussed on his podcast. Earlier this year we enjoyed a pipe away from the crowd at a local pipe show. A very memorable smoke. He was very inviting and incredibly nice. He's also a wealth of knowledge
And, Brian is hilarious. I've had the pleasure of meeting him at a couple of pipe shows. Super nice guy.
He really is. I learned so much that day, especially when we dug through estate bins. It was the highlight of that weekend for me. I'm supposed to visit his neck of the woods this winter and he said we'd go to McCranies when I'm in town. Hoping everything pans out
You're both smoking very nice looking pipes too!
Yeah, "memorable, but not in a good way" comes immediately to mind.
Though never formally diagnosed, psyche docs today think he was almost cetainly bi-polar, and probably borderline. Add to that his massive drinking, and behavioral ugliness was easy to come by whenever he was around.
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. So the former could advise the latter what real science is.
A lot of great names already listed, such as Watts, Jung, Tolkien, Twain.
One who hasn't been mentioned (I'd be shocked if he was) and would be first on my list as a personal hero and no one I have greater respect for, is Jim Garrison. Can't imagine anyone else I'd rather have a bowl and conversation with...especially on this 60th anniversary of the coup.
One who hasn't been mentioned (I'd be shocked if he was) and would be first on my list as a personal hero and no one I have greater respect for, is Jim Garrison. Can't imagine anyone else I'd rather have a bowl and conversation with...especially on this 60th anniversary of the coup.
Oscar Peterson
Sparse Grey Hackle (aka Alfred W. Miller)
Shelby Foote
Sparse Grey Hackle (aka Alfred W. Miller)
Shelby Foote