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Huh? Why wouldn't Houston Press review The Men's Club? They serve food, you review food — seems like a no-brainer to me. I enjoy visiting adult establishments every once in a while, and though I usually just have drinks while I'm there, I have often wondered if the food is worth ordering. I'm grateful Shilcutt did the dirty work (pardon the pun) so that I now have an answer.
Might I request your next adult review: "steak night" at the swingers' club (it's a thing, I swear). I'm just so damn curious about the quality of their meat...
Rebecca Hadley
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Bob the Bard
Online readers comment on "Bob Dylan: 50 Years After His Debut, Have Things Changed?" Rocks Off blog, by Rocks Off contributors, April 11:
Full house: This isn't an exact quote, but a British actor said of Shakespeare: When you play Shakespeare, you are amazed that all of those people, those thoughts, those words, those insights, depths and emotions were in one man — they had to be for him to have written that way.
That is what I think about after listening to Dylan for 50 years. Listen to his newer songs and how he "acts" them. Listen to every word, every line, every shade of emotion. First, he had to live it, then he had to write it, then he had to compose it, then he had to record it, then he had to take it on the road. And all of that is one man.
And the range goes from funny to mysterious to profound. From simple to complex. And it's all in conversational American English that seems spontaneous. He is a storyteller, always. But he does it with "characters," and all of those "people" are inside of him. The actor pointed out that Shakespeare had a full house inside. Dylan has the American "house" inside.
Glendabrownback
