TIME Stands Still
TIME Stands Still
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So the "Man of the Year" is.... THE GRINCH!
Unintended pun award...
Fun flies when you’re doing TIME.
TIME RAG
(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
Ripping along towards middle age
And my music career kind of missed a page
Record sales began to drop
The management all began to hop
Not worry, they said, you’ll see
What you need is some fresh publicity
Just give us a nod and we’ll all leap
Towards putting you back at the top of the heap
I said, Fine, I’ll give it a whack
I hung up the phone and I turned my back
Began daydreaming I was somebody else
When the phone jumped over from the wall to the shelf
We just had a break, this is really fine
We can make the January issue of TIME
If you’ll give us Monday, a week from today
From two to four, now what do you say?
I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
You got me on the rag, rag
Take your insults about the queen
And shove them up your royal Timese machine
But I scribbled it down on the wall calendar
And wondered about my interviewer
Maybe he’d be just a real nice guy
Bright and sympathetic with a roving eye
We’d forget all about the assignment due
Formalities, photos, and the interview
We’d hop on into his big rent-a-car
Go for a lovely drive, not far....maybe France
As the big day approached it slipped my mind
Till my secretary showed up at the house to remind
Me to switch into gear for the big coup de gras
The meeting with the man from the media
I swept the driveway and polished the phone
Put on a Kenzo knit in two-tone
Fluffed the pillows in the burgundy chair
Made up my eyes and brushed my hair...all in that order
When he called to say he was three hours late
My cheerful facade began to disintegrate
The photographer’d be even later still
She was hopelessly lost in the nearby hills
He arrived not exactly the man of my dreams
Not bad for a rep from the Timese machine
Asked me a wandering question or three
And I thought he was actually listening to me
And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
You got me on the rag, rag
Take your insults about the queen
And shove them up your royal Timese machine
Curious about his interest
I babbled my way through the worldwide list
Ireland, Chile and the African states
Poetry, politics and how they relate
Motherhood, music and Moog synthesizers
Political prisoners and Commie sympathizers
Hetero, homo and bisexuality
Where they all stand in the nineteen-seventies
Then suddenly it stopped and he started to lobby
Said, Tell me some inside stuff about Bobby
Bobby who? I smiled and said
And the TIME man’s face was laced with red
I know you guys used to know each other
I know you refer to him as being your brother
And I know that you know where he’s coming from
I said, You know alot for being so Goddamned dumb
And I said, TIME, TIME mag, mag
You got me on the rag, rag
Take your insults about the queen
And shove them up your royal Timese machine
Well I never gave him quite what he came for
The inside story and it’s really a shame
For I never made the January issue of TIME
And just before I run out of words that rhyme
I really should tell you that deep in my heart
I don’t give a damn where I stand on the charts
Not as long as the sun sinks into the west
And that’s going to be a pretty serious test.....of time
© 1977, 1978 Gabriel Earl Music (ASCAP)
Any chance they will give Joe Klein the heave ho?
People enjoyed 2 million in newsstand sales with its Jaycee Dugard issue -- including the first recent pictures of the girl who was held captive for 18 years -- but followed that with one of its worst-selling issues of the year.Sources say the Nicole Richie baby cover now on sale is estimated to have newsstand sales of just over one million this week. That keeps People at the top of the celebrity weekly category, but not by much -- and it lags its usual average of about 1.4 million a week.
People is said to have paid in mid-six figures for the photos.
Time Warner's crown jewels are losing their luster.
If Time had held to its’ original orientation, best expressed by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers, would this be happening?
Pardon me while I am underwhelmed with grief.
Boo-hoo.
A genuine conundrum, here: It's past their Time, Time to sigh, Time die, Time's done run out of Time. LOL
"No time to lose."
Media eats own, more to follow.
time isn't holding us, time isn't after us
time isn't holding us, time doesn't hold you back
time isn't holding us, time isn't after us
time isn't holding us,
