Adam Selzer Tour guide, historian. Chicago, Bob Dylan. Recent books:Graceland Cemetery, HH Holmes.There's a Star Wars character named after me. He/Him.
Chicago, IL
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THis is the story of Frances Carrick, a Chicago transgender woman who was accused of murder in 1923. (The term was about half a century away, but is probably the best to use for her, based on her various comments. And she gave great quotes). (Thread)
Truly magical night in Glasgow with Bob Dylan spontaneously reinventing โMy Own Version of Youโ as, like, a zombie pirate sea shanty. Review/travelogue in comment.
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Our Man in Coventry @adamselzer reports in from last night's Bob show in Coventry. For the first time since Donnie Herron's departure over a year ago, steel guitar has returned!
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They all play on the penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
On Desolation Row
At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
And they bring them to the factory where the heart attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the keroseneโฆ
And the riot squad theyโre restless
They need somewhere to go
As lady and I look out tonight
On Desolation Row
Tonightโs virtual tour will cover the Chicagoans who stood up to โslave catchersโ in the 1840s and 50s. Free to watch. Tune in at 8 Chicago time. Toast Judge Ellis and a pox on Bovino and his stormtroopers!
I assumed this was a bot but since they never followed up Iโm starting to wonder if it was really Richard Marx.
โThe bad jazz that a cat blows, Wails long after he's cut out.โ
-Shakespeare (translated by Lord Buckley)
Dylan, Death, and Mansfield: my review of last night
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ALT A gravestone in Amherst reading โstop, reader & learn to die.โ Let me die in my footsteps, Elisha Boltwood!