Leonard Cohen At Good Clean Wholesome Fun
As ongoing viewers know, Good Clean Wholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger sibling of the jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog before you now.
Good Clean Wholesome Fun posts typically comprise no more than an image and caption, a quotation, or a brief bit of prose. Many of these 893 entries (as of this morning) are photos of, quotations by, or prose about Leonard Cohen. Of those Good Clean Wholesome Fun Leonard Cohen posts, two have proven most popular by a wide margin.
Is “most popular by a wide margin” significant? Well, consider this: that great photo of Leonard Cohen on Route 66 (New Mexico 1987)1 atop this post? That’s the third most popular Leonard Cohen post at Good Clean Wholesome Fun.
The Most Popular Leonard Cohen Photo: Leonard Cohen on train from Marseilles to Nice (1981)
Leonard Cohen on train from Marseilles to Nice (1981)
This photo2 can be found at Leonard Cohen On Train at Good Clean Wholesome Fun
The Most Popular Leonard Cohen Quotation: Leonard Cohen’s Five Word Self-description
Q: Pick five words that describe yourself.
A: Oh, The Seven Deadly Sins.
This quote from “Q Questionnaire – Leonard Cohen†(September 1994 Q Magazine) can be found at Leonard Cohen answering a query at Good Clean Wholesome Fun
Other Fine & Dandy Posts In The Leonard Cohen Category At Good Clean Wholesome Fun
These two posts faced impressive competition. In addition to the shot shown above of a young Leonard Cohen demonstrating his smoke ring blowing skills, one can also check out a photo of the killer lineup of Elvis Costello, Roscoe Beck, T-Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, & Richard Thompson appearing together at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica in the mid-1980s (from Roscoe Beck – Scrapbook).
Or consider this tres cool photo of Sharon Robinson from Standdart magazine.
There are also entries featuring advice from Leonard Cohen on bondage fantasies, the student passport of the 5′8″, hazel-eyed Leonard Cohen, and the advice the Leonard Cohen who created “Ten New Songs†would give to the Leonard Cohen who created “Song of Leonard Cohen,†(besides “Move To L.Aâ€).
Putting Leonard Cohen In Context At Good Clean Wholesome Fun
Leonard Cohen material is indeed very popular at Good Clean Wholesome Fun. To put this phenomenon in context, however, the most frequently viewed Good Clean Wholesome Fun post in any category is …
Exposing The Nads By Design, spotlighting Scrotie (pictured here), the mascot for the Rhode Island School of Design hockey team.3
The Good Clean Wholesome Fun post with the second highest number of hits is this graphic of a fully tricked-out walker4 fashioned by Chris of Galway, Ireland in celebration of his brother’s 40th birthday.
There is, no doubt, a profound message embedded in the relative popularity of these posts. If anyone figures it out, please let me know.
- From Les Inrockuptibles Issue # 709↩
- From Les Inrockuptibles Issue # 709↩
- Scrotie was first featured as part of A Mascot Madness Update, a Heck Of A Guy post.↩
- The inspiration for Chris’s creation was the Heck of a Guy post, Pimp My Assistive Device.↩
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