Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 09, 2018

Perhaps they thought he was Dylan Thomas.

(Whoever HE was…)

So a Welsh is a Scot?

Cheer up, Mr, Welsh, the Swedish Academy is just warming up for the presentation to ABBA…

And then maybe Björk?

I love his work

Dylan, Dylan, DylanDylanDylan, Dylan Dylaaan

How did this Welch guy know my prostate is rancid? I don’t remember him tasting it. As for being a hippie, I’m not old enough.

I didn’t realize that song lyrics were considered literature. When, if ever, will comics be considered literature?

I love Dylan..if he reads this, O I will never wash my prostate again.

Oh, come on… the millennials aren’t that bad…

How many trains must a man spot before you can call him a man?

Hmm… not a Dylan fan then?

Dylan’s Nobel is pretty much right in line with previous awards. They’ve always been more about social-political statements than about quality writing. I mean, come on! Saul Bellow? Naguib Mahfouz? Really?

To bad@@@Dylan would be pissed with you

The Rancid Prostates would a good name for the Frog Applause™ house band (if Frog Applause™ had a house band).

…who?

Mr Welsh needs to listen to some Dylan. Particularly the one about how everybody must get stoned.

Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind

Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

An’ the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time

An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

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Bob Dylan

Well, i tend to agree with my cousin that the Bob is overrated. But i do take issue with his views on hippies…

Since Scottish things/people have been mentioned, if I ever get together with a bunch of rancid hippies and form a street gang, I’d call it “aft a-gley.”

This is “All Cloudy With A Chance Of Swedish Meatballs” … but, alas, I hear they’re from Turkey ….

You don’t need a weather man To know which way the wind blows.

" And death shall have no dominion

.Dead man naked they shall be one

With the man in the wind and the west moon;

<When their bones are picked clean

and the clean bones gone,

They shall have stars at elbow and foot;

Though they go mad they shall be sane,

Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion…."

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And Death Shall Have No Dominion

– Poem by Dylan Thomas

False premise. Bob Dylan is not the first songwriter to win the Noble prize in literature. That honor belongs to the poet and songwriter Rabindranath Tagore, who was honored in 1913. He wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, as well as over a hundred other songs, many of which are still sung and recorded today. Fair is fair, he won the Nobel for a book of poetry (which he originally published in Bengali and then translated into English himself), and not for his songwriting, so maybe I’m splitting hairs, but I’m really tired of that falsehood about Bob Dylan’s being “the first.”

The quote ranks right up there with “colonized by a nation of wankers.” Welsh is more than all right in my book.

Actually, they were Swedish hippies. But I suppose that’s kinda the same thing.

The real point is not Dylan at all, but that there are so many worthy potential candidates not considered at all. Seems like catering to PopCult. And I’m not a cultist (unless you consider following Frog Applause a “cult.” Would that make Sister Teresa a Cult Leader? Would that be a Bad Thing?)….

Who would get the first Froglandia, No Cow Bell award?

Minutemen – Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmg-WDSEzgA