The Ballad of Bob & Tracy
by Chris Hedges & Mr. Fish
Robert Scheer was born 86 years ago in the Bronx on April 4, 1936.
Dwayne Booth, aka Mr. Fish, and Chris Hedges made this video tribute for him.
They urge you to support ScheerPost through its Patreon.
Hedges sent in the video with this note:
We play two beat poets (beta vulgaris is the Latin name for beetroot), complete with berets, bongo drum solos by Dwayne and a script we wrote with apologies to Bob Dylan.
Happy Birthday Bob!
Love,
Chris and Dwayne
To learn more about Bob’s amazing life, check out the documentary “www.vimeo.com/350521431,” currently free for a few days to celebrate his birthday:
who’s tracy? 🙂
Owner of Truthdig, I gleaned from the context.
I hope you have a great birthday! You certainly deserve it.
Love you – Chris, Dwayne and Bob. I’m only 78 years of age, so I give great respect to my elders….ha ha….Happy Birthday, Bob – the intelligence comes from you!
Happy Birthday Bob
Thanks, I needed that. I’m still laughing. I’m laughing so hard, I’m crying. Ok, i’m going to go watch it again.
Encore!!!
Happy Birthday BOB! I hope you get a better present than that video….btw ..they DO look like those guys from TruthDig. Probably ruski spies!
What a hoot! I really needed that belly laugh this morning! ❤️👏👏😂🤣👏👏❤️
But out in Detroit here’s what they found
And out in Frisco here’s what they found
And out in Pittsburgh here’s what they found
And down in Bethlehem here’s what they found
That if you don’t let Red-uh, Russian-baiting break you up
If you don’t let neolib media break you up
If you don’t let the Ivy D mob break you up
If you don’t let race hatred break you up–
You win. What I mean,
Take it easy, but take it.
Ya dig?
Truthdig dug for the Ivy Ds
Got dirt on themselves.
Ya hear?
Signifying Chris and the flying fresh Fish
Sweet speech of sugar beet poets.
Cookin’ root music
With sound soil symbiosis
Swing low, carry us.
Home in on those scoops that
Union hands once grabbed
By the Linotype lovin’ spoonful .
Don’t matter that now it’s
Just drumming in the ether–
Transmuted truth
Is still
Truth.
And we’re still
Talking Union.
—Sampling from Seeger by Simonton
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robert Scheer!
So two of America’s greatest independent journalists also have musical talent. Well, don’t quit your day jobs, gentlemen, but the earnestness of your performance inspired me to push my Patreon pledge up a notch in hopes that you will spend some of it on singing lessons! Who the hell is Tracy and Happy Birthday Bob!
🙂
Happy Birthday Bob
🙂
Well, in the spirit of truth and dig, don’t give up your day jobs you two…
Happy Birthday to Bob, I just became a contributor.
PS the word bollocks (kinda) rhymes with Botox.
Only an act of true love could be this awful. 😛 JK nice touch, fellas!
Happy birthday, Bob!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! Mr. Bob..I’ve read your work since ‘RAMPARTS’ in the 60’s…the only journal writing about the truth on the ground in Vietnam…read it in Canada no less….met you in Santa Fe with the Truth/dig get together….great time during interesting times…..live a thousand years, Sir Robert…..with good Health….
Regards,
Susan E. Steffner
Cortes Island, B.C.
Timely reminder, thanks. I was a Ramparts subscriber too. Dating from 1966 as a high school senior in Seattle.
Couldn’t a said it any better myself !
Happy Birthday Mr. Scheer!
Kind regards,
– Umesh Heendeniya
https://umeshheendeniyaversusjointterrorismtaskforce.org/
Chris was a Fish out of water….hillarious! Now go form a union somewhere else!
the stuff on selling out was painful to watch.
Wonderful! I had no idea Chris Hedges could be funny. ;-p Happy birthday Bob!