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

[mackro]

About to puke. Could only stomach first paragraph. It's time to stop when the residual seafood dining mention followed by a tired generalization/stereotype happens (like in every piece he does)

shortly after, he started inferring blogging and txting as this degenerate thing and I had to stop reading. :-/

[mackro]

Sorry, here's the link: http://nyti.ms/bKJVrT

[JonFromMaplewood]

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.

[Sarah]

I get what he's bemoaning, but he is a tedious old fart nonetheless (it takes one to know one [well, not really, but at least it means I'm not just responding as a prickly young'un]).

[Steve of Bloomington]

He is pretty tiresome. It is kind of a shame how whole swaths of people are having the rug pulled out from under them as far as getting paid to do things, though, so he has a valid point there.

And carbon paper, really? I wonder is he going to bemoan the disappearance of the mimeograph machine from schools.

[Matt]

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.

This is gross, but it made me think of Garrison Keillor with cornrows, which made me laugh.

You are found guilty of being a blowhard, Keillor! Your punishment - forty lashes with a stalk of wheat. And then, the soggy-corncobbing.

[Kim Kelly]

I wish a child would send him into the cornfield. Forever and ever.

[Sarah]

It is kind of a shame how whole swaths of people are having the rug pulled out from under them as far as getting paid to do things, though, so he has a valid point there.

I feel like I got out of the biz just in time.

[Christina]

It is kind of a shame how whole swaths of people are having the rug pulled out from under them as far as getting paid to do things, though, so he has a valid point there.

I feel like I got out of the biz just in time.

The tap dancing going on right now is pretty exhausting.

[dave from knoxville]

Every day is the end of SOME era.

[senorcorazon]

Every day is the end of SOME era.

Can today be the end of the Keillor Era?

[Sarah]

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. 

[Pat K]

our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 1derful), blogging like crazy, reading for hours off their little screens, surfing around from Henry James to Jesse James to the epistle of James to pajamas to Obama to Alabama to Alanon to non-sequiturs, sequins, penguins, penal institutions

This reminds me of when they made fun of Bill Cosby on The Simpsons that one time, and he goes "The kids these days with their rap music and the bippin and the boppin and the hippin and the hoppin!"

[Sarah]

Perhaps he'd just seen a Bing commercial.

[Christina]

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.