The American Coup

[James R. Coplin]

Nope.  American by birth and southern by the grace of god...

I've been to the UK, but that's all I can claim.  Had a completely rubbish
time in the south and a wonderful time in the north.  I was presenting a
paper at a conference in Sheffield and I absolutely adored it.  I definitely
must get back sometime.  I unfortunately was there right when the war broke
out and so the populace was fairly hostile.  In London, people were just
obnoxious about it.  The folks up north were equally upset but wanted to
talk about it and seemed to take people more at an individual level than at
a group level.  The cab driver who picked me up to take me to the train
station when I left had another fair in Manchester at the airport and
offered to drive me the whole way for the fare price to the train station.
He was somewhat of an amateur historian and as we had several hours to kill,
gave me a fantastic backroad tour.  Lovely time.  I especially loved how
every Monte Python sketch about trains apparently is far closer to truth
than any American viewer can possibly understand without actually
experiencing it. 

As far as the black leather jacket, while I have one, I'm quite sure no one
on the bar has any idea what I look like...

James R. Coplin

-----Original Message-----
From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
[mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Sjaak de Vos
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:58 PM
To: Music-bar
Subject: Re: The American Coup


> All of this suggests that Europe is a completely artificial construct.
> Don't take it too personally, most geography is.  North America and the US
> included.  The point is, is that all these terms of viewing, talking
about,
> and dividing up the world are all done on European terms, using European
> definitions, sciences, and cultural backgrounds.  
>
> James R. Coplin
>
>
>   


I was a bit surprised when I found out you're not British.
You're not are you ?

I always assumed someone whose name is " James R. Coplin " has to be 
British.
If I'm not mixing Bar-Members up - or whatever that's called in proper 
British English.

And besides that, i think I saw a picture - black leather jacket I 
remember - typical British look I thought haha..

:-)
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