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OldGrayPuppet wrote:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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MrMister7 wrote:

Merry Christmas to you and all your family and friends. ;-)

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ACKthehack wrote:

A journal up on going to see John Doe play check it out!

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richard0h wrote:

Richard O has a new album out: http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+O/Apocalypse+O

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Otokichi wrote:

As Melveen Leed (Or Myra English) would say: "Howdy from 'Paniolo Country,' stay a while for some Red Beans and Rice at the bunkhouse."

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ACKthehack wrote:

New journal up with a spotify playlist of songs I cannot get out of my head.

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Soffenoffe wrote:

My favorite Swedish poet Dan Andersson was sent to Minnesota at age 14 by his father, in 1902, to see if the family could join him later, but he wrote back home saying there were no better opportunities for them there than in Sweden and was asked to come home. He later wrote a novel called Chi-mo-ka-ma, published in 1920 - the same year he died from cyanide poisoning, about his experiences in Minnesota. It’s a real shame that novel hasn’t been translated into English, because it’s such a great account of the hardships of early immigrant life and full of colorful characters, and his descriptions of Minnesota’s wilderness are just magical! I'm real glad he didn’t emigrate, because I wouldn’t want to live without his poetry inspired by his later life in Dalecarlia (the language in his poems is so incredibly beautiful that I feel it’s the main reason why I’m grateful I speak Swedish, many Swedish folk singers have sung his words).

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Soffenoffe wrote:

Thank you for the kind welcome! I like your charts! Oh, that’s cool about your great-grandmother! Did she go to Minnesota? My great-grandfather who was from the countryside outside of Malmö emigrated to Oregon in the early 1900's (I went there this summer actually, to see some of the places he had seen, got ME thinking about emigrating…) and worked as a lumberjack, but then he got lucky, we think maybe he went to Nome and found gold, and returned to Malmö with a nice gold watch that he had had made and some other precious items and bought a car and started the city's first taxi company. He went from working class to upper class. Most people weren't so lucky...

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