“He smokes Kools instead of stogies, but in every other flamboyant excess, Bill Sargent is the Don King of the showbiz hill…”
Author: Serene Sargent
I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY
Ninety Years Ago Today My Father Was Born
Then turned on one toe, hopped off the huge wooden table and started off, head high, when I heard him slap the table hard with his big hand – the way everyone who knew him remembers he did in his constant, big-ness that encompassed all sight, movement, and certainly sound – and laughed his ass off.
“Don’t be an idiot…”
“… I bugged the Scotch bottle.” “Don’t be an idiot. I bugged the Scotch bottle.”
I Would Never Say That
Lime green is slimming. Remember, you are fighting for yourself, for the web, and for the next step in evolution.
How Serene Gets Distracted (it’s for the best in this case)
Went from James Brown to of course, the rip-off evolutions – Michael Jackson/Elvis Presley down through what is still the now only intimidating dance in my existence, Ed Sheeran’s official “Don’t” video and somehow still end up at a video with no dancing in it at all. Yet I think it’s worth it. (I still have to…
GAME OF WITS. May the best idea win. Buckle up, assholes. (*Even if said asshole is a relation.)
Game of wits. Fought with words. Thought. Ideas. But how terroristic of me. Freedom of thought has been disallowed here so long – I get it, but it is easy to forget how far Americans live from reality. It’s was unthoughtful in the extreme. I deeply apologize. Throw me in a cell like Barrett. Or Chelsey or…
Foner Funny – Prof Foner on Delaware – more random musing
༺ Dr. Foner’s accidental funny: ٠Delaware Couldn’t Secede٠ Version (Civil War and Reconstruction I) ༻
“So, here it’s really martial law, almost, which is holding, which is getting, making sure that Maryland stays in the Union. And of course, if Maryland stays in the Union, there’s not much chance of Delaware leaving, because Delaware is just a tiny, little place stuck over in the corner.”
“Is anybody here from Delaware?”
[Silence from class. No one is claiming Delaware.]
“I don’t mean to say anything bad about Delaware.”
[Silence solidifies.]
“I don’t really like Delaware much…”
Exact Words 