July 25, 2020
Back in 1966, Simon and Garfunkel
recorded “A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I was Robert McNamara’d into Submission)”
on their Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme album. It was a joking song that
referenced a lot of players on the public stage at the time.
But it’s weird how the people
referenced keep popping up even today.
When I saw the 2017 movie “The
Post” (about the Pentagon Papers), and Robert McNamara came on screen, the song
started going through my head, and pretty much stayed there throughout the
movie.
Now I’m watching “The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel”, and there’s Lenny Bruce, large as life. And I attended an Andy
Warhol retrospective last year.
When things were going sideways
at work, a co-worker and I used to look at each other and chorus, “I’ve lost my
harmonica, Albert.”
I still say that.
Yep, that little ditty really
holds up.
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