Rob Long

Writer/producer/author/lazybones. Shoutout: @southfoodways @mfpla @ptseminary

[Rob Long @rcbl]

My modest proposal: replace Hollywood executives with AI:

https://t.co/7dFKbFLhUW

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"Years ago, around the time that many of my male friends were getting married, I noticed something. A few months after the ceremony — after the wedding pictures were framed and displayed, after the tropical honeymoon was a happy memory — my friends started getting fat."

More:

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I made an on-line donation to a local charity recently, and received an effusively grateful letter from the executive director, which made me very nervous. I mean, how much had I donated?

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@johnkroencke I think there are going to be a lot of “lost” recordings coming out, and I am very much eager for this!

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A bit more on Dolly Parton:

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LISTEN: Commentary’s Hollywood Commentary columnist @rcbl joins us today to discuss the passing of the legendary Dolly Parton, her status as a consensus figure in American culture, and her amazing and storied life.
https://t.co/s3B8wfwZdF

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@MarkWLeach Wow! Many thanks!

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@whm3113 Good Lord! No! (I’m just moving into a new place…)

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Terrible background, sorry, it's a move-in day.

[Commentary Magazine @Commentary]

@rcbl: "Everything that's really important about her in the eternal sense is available to us every minute of the day."

Watch & subscribe to the Commentary Magazine Podcast: https://t.co/Tevo8cCTZA

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@Jacquel18218493 Thank you!!

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@daveweigel Yes! Like I'm floating above and coming through in wisps. My preferred method of delivery actually.

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@DonaldFleu But I was happy! I was smiling!
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How I Spent My Summer

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I’ll never be able to write a song or play an instrument, but I have all of the God-given talents to be a decent person, to be as loving and Christian as Dolly. So, um, what’s keeping me?

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Here’s a TL;dr, at least for what I say in the above: what made Dolly Parton so important and inspiring isn’t really her amazing, unique, and God-given talents. It was her sense of grace and forgiveness and service to others, traits that are available to all of us, all the time.

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Much welcome good news:

[Jon Gabriel @exjon]

Good news on the health front. After six surgeries, a month and a half in the hospital, and a stem cell transplant, my cancer is in full remission. To keep the multiple myeloma in check, I'll continue low-dose chemotherapy for the next two years. (Still need to get my right hand fully functioning again, but the radial nerve damage has been improving month by month.)

I want to thank all of you for your prayers and support over the past nine months. It's been a crazy ride, but hundreds of you were there for me and it's greatly, greatly appreciated. God is good and so are you.

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@SaltierBit Coming!

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@BruceWolfChi I never thought of it that way, but maybe....

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@dagenmcdowell Very kind of you to say. Boy, hard to imagine an America without her.