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"Bob Dylan was a problem for me," Diaz, who has also published a story collection, "Drown," said with a laugh. "I had one part that was 40 pages long, the entire chapter was organized around Bob Dylan's lyrics over a two year-period (1967-69). By the end of it, I wanted to throttle my like of Bob Dylan."

I got three hours credit from the head of my college English department head for a paper as long as pobrecito Diaz' on lyrics of a hundred Dylan songs up to the same period.

I work with a woman who went to Hibbing with [Zimmerman] who she says "serenaded us in the auditorium on the piano and it was not the type of music you might expect".

I saw Baez under a full moon in Redrocks in '72 and she was flawless musically but off one-eighty in zeitgeist--and held lifelong animosity against you-can-call-me-Bob for his "betrayal".

I had to tell some teens this week (as Like a Rolling Stone played on their FM) that once upon a time Dylan was roundly rebuked for being so e-lectric.

Some say I can't understand you when the showers running, calling to mind "you walk into the room with your pencil in your hand".

You know, it's a better use of a Pulitzer to give one to this guy than to Walter Duranty Stalin's butt boy and the darling of the New York Times.