{"id":5216,"date":"2004-12-29T19:07:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T23:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/29\/52nd-week-blues\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:05","slug":"52nd-week-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/29\/52nd-week-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"52nd week blues?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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only crumbs<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on the Christmas platter —<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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in bed, alone<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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                     dagosan<\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>  [dec. 30, 2004]<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Got the mid-holiday doldrums?  If you believe that misery loves company,   \"kinky<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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you’ll love the company of America’s <\/FONT>favorite ex-country-rocker, mystery-writer <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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raconteur <\/FONT>Kinky<\/EM> Friedman<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>:<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“The period between Christmas and New Year’s can be a rather lonely <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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time for those of us married to the wind.  Old people living alone tend <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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to leap from their top-floor balconies in greatly incresed numbers, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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sometimes taking until Purim to hit the pavement.  Young people who <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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feel alone see the holiday season as a pretty good time to end it all before <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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it begins.  They hang themselves while listening to albums by Whitesnake, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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overdose on St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, or just wander away, having always <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dreamed of someday seeing themselves on milk cartons.”<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Kinky Friedman, from <\/FONT>Musical Chairs<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>, as excerpted in the unique <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Eat, Drink and Be Kinky: A Feast of Wit and Fabulous Recipes for Fans of Kinky Friedman<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by Mike McGovern (1999).<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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New Year’s kite–
out of green leaves
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New Year’s pine decoration–
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no one to give
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Kobayashi Issa<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/FONT> <\/FONT>translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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\"rook<\/FONT> \"rook <\/FONT> Please give generously to your charitable fund of choice for Tsunami Relief<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>.  <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

only crumbs on the Christmas platter — in bed, alone                      dagosan  [dec. 30, 2004]     Got the mid-holiday doldrums?  If you believe that misery loves company,   you’ll love the company of America’s favorite ex-country-rocker, mystery-writer raconteur Kinky Friedman:   “The period between Christmas and New Year’s can be a rather lonely time for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1m8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13436,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions\/13436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}