Well, it strengthened Muse "Bi" Lee’s argument. "Strange New World That's a-Comin' Along: Bob Dylan, Star Trek, and the Changing Times" was an interesting paper. I hadda watch a whole lotta Bogart movies to nail that one down (which wasn’t so bad).

StarTrek.com notes that Bob is more of a Sulu/Kirk kinda guy.

I appreciate your work here. My favorite category on the Dylan Pool, where folks handicap Bob Dylan setlists, are the wildcards. Gonna write, record & release a song called “Dylan Song Not On The List Played The First Time Live” and then get Bob to play it every night. 25 points a pop—I’ll clean up!

"This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no skin care routine!"

Land of Truth and Liberty + pizza = Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Typos make us human. Of course it’s New *Lost* City Ramblers. I lay out the Uncle John connection with receipts and commentary from John Cohen here: swarmuth.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-...

Red, Jim, and Jack Anglin performed as the Anglin Twins and Red and billed themselves as "the South's favorite trio" in the 1930s. If we’re talking about hidden twins and identity in the work of Bob Dylan, which we just were in Tulsa, the Anglin Twins are yet another pair of doubles to consider.

And does Bob Dylan think about these things too? Well, yeah. Dig this exchange with David Gates in Newsweek from 1997.

When I hear “Searching for a Soldier’s Grave” I think about how Jack Anglin died in a car crash on the way to Patsy Cline’s funeral, leaving his brother Jim and his singing partner Johnnie Wright (husband of Kitty Wells) to have to soldier on without him. It adds layers to the song. A resonance.

A cutthroat biz. If you recall, we talked in Tulsa about how Dylan’s use of Johnnie and Jack’s “Uncle John’s Bongos” plays a part in just 1 of the several stories happening at once in “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”—that hidden tribute to John Cohen and the New List City Ramblers.
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Cool! Andy Greene writes, “Roy Acuff's World War Il-era folk song ‘Searching For a Soldier's Grave’” It’s only Acuff’s because he *bought* it. Eyolf Østrem notes “Written by Jim Anglin (1913-1987), who sold the copyrights to Roy Acuff.” Jim Anglin is the brother of Jack Anglin, of Johnnie & Jack.

The M&A screenplay is just as dense as Chronicles: Volume One and “Love and Theft” when it comes to material incorporated from other sources. Larry Charles and I have touched base a couple of times. It still has *a lot* to give. Charles talks about writing with Dylan in his new book Comedy Samurai.