2 June 2006
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Every week Garrison Keillor makes an argument for stripping away the hindrances of the busy life. It’s in his syndicated newspaper column and it’s in his long-running, good-time NPR radio program “A Prairie Home Companion,” the movie version of which is in theaters next Friday. He gives you reason to believe that a day spent hugging a mug or a thermos of coffee and dawdling around the remnants of a Minnesota blizzard is certifiably utopian. He’s almost made me want to give the black stuff a try on a morning, upon waking. It’s never gone further than that, never past the glimmer, the flicker of possibility. Ragtimey, bluegrassy numbers – both traditional and those arranged by legends Robin and Linda Williams and Keillor himself (one is about coffee) – fill the movie and the accompanying soundtrack. There’s Lindsay Lohan singing about a bastard of a man and Dusty and Lefty – John C. Reilly and Woody Harrelson – telling bad jokes about penises and wives. A good old slice of problem-free simple life is an appealing thing, I guess. I tell myself that every time I multitask and then chuckle that it would never happen. For the best essay answer to the question – “What would your simple life consist of? – you shall receive a copy of the above-mentioned soundtrack with the bad jokes and Lohan dropping the b-word. All entries should be sent to info@daytrotter.com before and not after June 11.
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