Head for shelter! Keillor in NYT predicts end of an end of an era!

[Pat K]

Also:

and it’s all free, and you read freely, you’re not committed to anything the way you are when you shell out $30 for a book,

I hate it when rich and famous people make this argument, as if he doesn't get 10 tons of free books a year. I'd love to see the receipt from the last time he paid retail price for a book in an actual store. I'll bet the year on it begins with "198".

I don't even hate Garrison Kiellor particularly much, but that line of reasoning really bugs me.

[Steve of Bloomington]

Another point: I read a lot of books for free before the Internet. I checked them out of THE LIBRARY! I bet they even have a library in Lake Wobegon.

[dave from knoxville]

Another point: I read a lot of books for free before the Internet. I checked them out of THE LIBRARY! I bet they even have a library in Lake Wobegon.

Yes, and all of the books are of above average quality.

[senorcorazon]

The tap dancing going on right now is pretty exhausting.

It must be hell.  I'm so glad I don't have to deal with it. 

I'm working on a Plan B.

Let me know when you've got that solved.

[waltkellysghost]

I was okay for a while. I didn't actually vomit until this last paragraph:

"Children, I am an author who used to type a book manuscript on a manual typewriter. Yes, I did. And mailed it to a New York publisher in a big manila envelope with actual postage stamps on it. And kept a carbon copy for myself. I waited for a month or so and then got an acceptance letter in the mail. It was typed on paper. They offered to pay me a large sum of money. I read it over and over and ran up and down the rows of corn whooping. It was beautiful, the Old Era. I’m sorry you missed it."

Go jump in a lake, Keillor. And you know which one.

I hate it when people go on and on with that cliched "Good ole days" spiel. If this were 1794 Garrison Keillor would be complaining about the Cotton Gin.

It's not the our fault he feels so irrelevant. The world is gonna move with or without you, Keillor. Get over it.

[Sarah]

So one is not allowed to mourn what is lost? 

[cavorting with nudists]

Well, it's one thing to mourn a lost era and another to do it in a loud-mouthed self-righteous way that insinuates that one is absolutely wonderful for having lived through it and others are deprived losers who just can't measure up.

See: Boomers, rock music up through 1971 or so.

[dave from knoxville]

Well, it's one thing to mourn a lost era and another to do it in a loud-mouthed self-righteous way that insinuates that one is absolutely wonderful for having lived through it and others are deprived losers who just can't measure up.

See: Boomers, rock music up through 1971 or so.

Actually, they are right on that one.