Huffington Post has a travel piece up showing bits and pieces of Route 66. Waxing lyrical and implying that we generally do not know our country because we drive interstates instead of things like HW 101 or the Lincoln Highway or Route 1 or whatever. Well, that's fine. Most of the stuff people pretend to be nostalagic for on Route 66 are pretty horrible. For example, Barstow. That said, they chose to show a shot of The El Rancho Motel in New Mexico. Problem is, their picture says "El Rancho---Barstow" on the damn hotel' sign. There are hotels in Barstow that could lure tourists, I guess but the El Rancho is for someone trying to emualte Burroughs and Naked Lunch. A wretched place, home to bunches of street people, the crazed, ill, drunken and drugged multitude that make this a sad commentary on America in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
Ok, it is a pretty good song...couple of kind of transformational versions here. There are some live Stones footage ones, but this has Mick Taylor on slide so it's the superior; as for the Nat King Cole Trio, what the hell...
I think this is a great post. One thing that I find the most helpful is number five. Sometimes when I write, I just let the flow of the words and information come out so much that I loose the purpose. It’s only after editing when I realize what I’ve done. There’s defiantly a lot of great tips here I’m going to try to be more aware of.
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