AND LOOK AT THIS – AT 9:50 A.M. ET:  The Nobel Prize in literature has just been announced.  Hey man, this is cool.  From CNN:

(CNN) The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

The Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan, 75, "is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition." She drew parallels between his work and that of ancient Greek poets.

COMMENT:  Whether one is a Dylan fan or not, I think it's terrific when an American artist is honored this way.  And I love, absolutely love, the phrase "the great American song tradition."  When you consider the songs that this nation has given to the world since the start of the 20th century, you just get blown away.  We have produced great composers and lyricists – George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington – the list goes on and on.  No nation can top that. 

Congratulations to Bob Dylan, and the great American songbook.

October 13, 2016