***You might want to read part1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5 first***
“I wish Ani DiFranco wasn’t a Lesbian.”
So begins Miller’s chapter on love. It’s another fine example of why this book would never have shown up in Christian bookstore even a decade ago. At any rate, Don continues (if you don’t know anything about Ani DiFranco you won’t find this very funny. Personally I think it’s hilarious:
“I am listening to her right now, and I think I would marry her if she’d have me. I would hang out in the front row at all her concerts and sing along and pump my fist and get angry at all the right times. Then, later, on the bus, she would lay her head on a pillow in my lap, and I would get my fingers tangled in her dreadlocks while we watched Charlie Rose on television.”
Don has some interesting fantasies to say the least – this one seems like the artist’s equivalent of a geek fantasy about being the captain of the Starship Enterprise. And last I heard, Don, Ani is no longer a lesbian (exclusively anyway) and is married to a guy from a city 20 minutes from where I live.
“If Ani DiFranco and I got married, I would write books on the bus ride between cities and in the evening, after the concerts, we would watch Charlie Rose, and three or four times each night we would whisper, Good question, Charlie, good question. But none of this will happen because Ani DiFranco is not attracted to men, I don’t think. Otherwise we would be on.”
These are the fantasies of a desperately single, artistically inclined man. Good luck, Don.
Miller is a first rate writer – in this book anyway – and from the audio I’ve heard of him he’s also an engaging and hilarious speaker.
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Post Script – I’ve read another entire book of his now and I disliked it as much I liked Blue Like Jazz. It is a book that is more focused on theology and in it Don seems to be in way over his head, regurgitating half-baked ideas with a more that subtle liberal bias. I’ll post some thoughts on that eventually.
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Donald Miller’s “Blue Like Jazz” (6 of 6) – Don on: Love
***You might want to read part1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5 first***
So begins Miller’s chapter on love. It’s another fine example of why this book would never have shown up in Christian bookstore even a decade ago. At any rate, Don continues (if you don’t know anything about Ani DiFranco you won’t find this very funny. Personally I think it’s hilarious:
Don has some interesting fantasies to say the least – this one seems like the artist’s equivalent of a geek fantasy about being the captain of the Starship Enterprise. And last I heard, Don, Ani is no longer a lesbian (exclusively anyway) and is married to a guy from a city 20 minutes from where I live.
These are the fantasies of a desperately single, artistically inclined man. Good luck, Don.
Miller is a first rate writer – in this book anyway – and from the audio I’ve heard of him he’s also an engaging and hilarious speaker.
******
Post Script – I’ve read another entire book of his now and I disliked it as much I liked Blue Like Jazz. It is a book that is more focused on theology and in it Don seems to be in way over his head, regurgitating half-baked ideas with a more that subtle liberal bias. I’ll post some thoughts on that eventually.
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