tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148048131502110089.post1645334246025174386..comments2024-02-08T03:37:01.136-06:00Comments on Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout: Leonard Cohen—Ageless Canadian Cultural TreasurePatrick Murfinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05191688376908660270noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148048131502110089.post-84761440670173557762015-09-22T17:39:51.599-05:002015-09-22T17:39:51.599-05:00So it's a Leonard Cohen concert in Chicago and...So it's a Leonard Cohen concert in Chicago and he's gonna be starting in 10 minutes and I'm still waiting for my date, a beautiful (a thing I've never been) folk singer from Michigan City, under the marquis and its pouring like the Niagara... I surrender to being stood-up and, with one last look, turn to join the couple I came with... and there's Cohen and his entourage walking through the lobby (no back-stage entrance in this place) and I wave and I holler to him, "It's OK, Uncle Leonard!...You don't have to address women from a prone position anymore!...Most of them don't even like it!", (but I only imagined doing that)...and I return to our table and the distaff side of the couple gives me a pitying look but the spear says, "You're gonna enjoy this evening more than we are.", which is just about the cleverest thing ever said to me...<br /><br />My favorite of his is still, "Nancy"....I sing it to young men... when appropriateUri Freedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14455533046595340041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148048131502110089.post-47599842490912202302015-09-21T09:22:49.838-05:002015-09-21T09:22:49.838-05:00Excellent history, thanks Patrick! I have been a ...Excellent history, thanks Patrick! I have been a fan of Cohen's since his first publications. A singular figure, no one like him, a true original!Stan Schultzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02445431389799203445noreply@blogger.com