But if you try sometimes...

Overheard in passing at the subway station this morning, two young men in Bay St. suits:

 

“Well, for the Republicans he was the best candidate, anyway…”

 

Ave aqua vale, John McCain; in your time, you would’ve probably made a splendid President. It’s not really your fault that your time has long passed.

 

Although, the Palin thing…and all the other wildly misguided efforts you made to keep up…those are still your fault. Totally.

 

I’m thinking about McCain’s particular epoch especially since I finally got around to listening to Bob Edwards’ fine interview – or reminiscence, really - with Bob Elliott earlier this year, on the occasion of the latter’s 85^th birthday. (One of the many just-slightly-off-plumb circs that surround Bob & Ray is that they were born almost exactly one year apart, in March of ’23 & ’22 respectively.)

 

I’ve been holding off on downloading it for some time now, just because…well, I didn’t really want to think of my bright, bold comedic heroes as - old. I’m cowardly that way, I guess. Didn’t help that around the same time the show was produced I’d been deep into the earliest Bob & Ray material, recorded when they were in their mid-twenties. Did not wish to consider that spark, dulled.

 

I shouldn’t have worried.

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