Jonathan Richman: The Man Who Hates Sitting Down
Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1993
OCCUPANTS OF automobiles cruising the road betwixt the crumbling house of Margaret Mitchell (she who wrote Gone With The Wind) and the shiny tower of Ted Turner (he who invented CNN and married Jane Fonda), are peering from their shaded windows and wondering at a tall, stick-like figure prancing upon the small park's kempt grass.
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