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8th & 9th December, 2007 TODAY! - Rod McKuen in Palm Springs! Click HERE for details.		Rod at Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006, 2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved. A Thought for Today Memories live on. They are the yardstick we measure our current lives by. Rod in Palm Springs Rod is in Palm Springs this weekend and to prove it BJ sent us this pic taken at the press conference on Thursday. Here's what she had to say: Rod is seated between Lindsay Wagner and Rhonda Fleming. Others in the shot are Tab Hunter, Ty Hardin, Ed Faulkner, Carol Connors, Herb Jeffries, Ann Jeffrey and some I can't remember right now. Rod was a hit at the press conference, witty and had the crowd in the palm of his hand (as usual.) The Rod Squad will be making their presence felt so it should be a great weekend. Get along there if you can. Click on the Stanyan House logo to buy Rod McKuen books, CD's and lots more Click on the heart logo to subscribe to the Rod McKuen mailing list Catch Rod McKuen live! Click on the links below for details of concerts and appearances. ROD McKUEN CONCERTS ROD McKUEN APPEARANCES



		Saturday 8 December Gregg Allman o Morgan Ames o Kim Basinger o David Carradine o Lee J. Cobb o Sammy Davis, Jr. o James Galway o Teri Hatcher o Joel Chandler Harris o Horace o Sam Kinison o Mary Queen of Scots o James MacArthur o Jim Morrison o Sinead O'Connor o Jean Ritchie o Diego Rivera o John Rubinstein o Maximillan Schell o Jean Sibelius o Adele Simpson o James Thurber o Eli Whitney o Flip Wilson Sunday 9 December Joshua Bell o Beau Bridges o Dick Butkus o John Cassavetes o Broderick Crawford o Rick Danko o Dame Judi Dench o Jakob Dylan o Emjay o Kirk Douglas o Morton Downey, Jr. o Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. o Redd Foxx o Hermione Gingold o Margaret Hamilton o Robert Hawke o Buck Henry o Deacon Jones o Emmett Kelly o David Kersh o Joe Lando o John Malkovich o Freddy Martin o John Milton o Dina Merrill o Michael Nouri o Tip O'Neill o Donny Osmond o Elizabeth Schwarzkopf o Dick Van Patten

		Nobody steals something original and winds up producing more than a carbon copy. Never fear life or death, only mere existence. The best thing about cats is everything.

NINETEEN FIFTY-EIGHT: THE COUNTERPOINT OF CAROLS		Now softly come the minstrels heads bowed into hymnals caroling for cookies and safe smiles. We owe them more than candy for the redness of their ears alone. Faint footsteps down the hill and gone, there music dying through the trees as back to Bach we go on phonographs and radios. The needlepoint of patchwork quilts, the counterpoint of carols. Novembers come and gone too soon there are so many quarrels that we haven't finished, and they might lessen in the January rain. Quarrel in December ? Never. November comes up every year. This Christmas comes but once. I am not master of the holly, nor are you mistress to the fire. Still, together we're the Christmas people and dancing down the year-end has its merits. We can fire our memories as the Yule logs burn and give away our secrets each in turn. Never mind what Whitman said, proud music of the storm never kept the nations quiet; lovers each to each do that - they know that wars don't work forever. Merry then and Alleluia too, I love you just as much as I love Christ. No. More. He opened up my life for me. You unlocked the final door. -from "Twelve Years of Christmas", 1969

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