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Outrageously Happy, 

Outrageously In Love With Julie

... I never had a chance. I was – and this is the only word that fits – smitten. She was overwhelmingly intelligent and quick-witted, although it took three more years for me to recognize that she was, in fact, much smarter than me, and then another two years to forgive her for that. And, she was surpassingly good-looking, with an unmistakable aura of sexiness.

The unlikely story of how Julie and I fell in love and - 2 husbands, 1 wife, and 2 careers later - spent an outrageously wonderful 20 years together is unlike anything else you will find in this blog, and perhaps anywhere else.

The story starts, appropriately eough, at

This Is How A Love Story Began

The Amazing Presentation Of Professor Giles Brindley - Extreme Show and Tell

Answer: Displaying One's Erection As Part Of A Lecture At A Scientific Meeting

Question: What Happens In Vegas That Doesn't Stay In Vegas?

Giles Brindley
Extreme Show & Tell

Advice From Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Monk's Advice, Archived By Steve Lacy

Heck of a Guy Blog Favorites:

• Tough Guy Good Reads - Chercover's Ray Dudgeon Novels
  

• Frank Sinatra Explains How To Do It His Way
• Jim Bianco -  If Leonard Cohen Had Been Raised By Gypsies …
• Anthonio Benito Wants To Spear My Life
• This Is How A Love Story Began
• Anjani & DrHGuy
  
• Giles Brindley's Scientific Erection Exhibition
  
• Carol Shields On Living, Writing, Cancer, and Julie
• The Best Of Baseball - Without Attending A Game
• New & Proposed Boy Scout Activity Patches 
• Misquotation Marks & Quasi-Quotation Punctuation
• Pish-Posh Pastiche Post
• The Dan Band
• The Spooksound Mystery, Part I
• A Heck Of A [Warm-Up] Guy
• The How-To Of Ketchup Decantation
• Signs You May Be Kinky: Part I Part II
  
• Chocolodka: The Quintessential  Chocolate Vodka
• Wedding Whitemail
  
• Hong Kong Egg Cakes - Reading Calvin Trillin’s About Alice
  

• 10 Unbelievable Secrets About Leonard Cohen
• How To Tell If You're At A Cohen Or A Springsteen Concert
• New & Improved Leonard Cohen Lyrics
• New & Improved Leonard Cohen Concerts
• Leonard Cohen Finds Love - Quiescently Frozen On A Stick
• The Miracle Of The Holy Cohen Breadroll
• Throwing In The Leonard Cohen (Beach) Towel
• Anjani CD Remains Blue – But Is It Still Alert?

• Elvis’s Rolls Royce
• 2 Raw, Unreleased Leonard Cohen Songs "Puppets" & "Book Of Longing"
• Baby, Baby, Baby – Leonard Cohen & Anjani Sing The Blues In Norway

   

• Cohen interviews on CBC

• The 2008 Leonard Cohen Field Guide
• Leonard Cohen’s List Of Pharmaceuticals Joke & His Not At All Funny Depression
• Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, and The Woman Who Knew Exactly What She Wanted
• The Do-se-do Guy In Leonard Cohen's First Band

• Women Disrobe While Leonard Cohen Music Plays – Yet, Something Feels Wrong
• Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah – Mood Music For Watchmen SuperHeroic Sex Scene
• Leonard Cohen, Miami Vice Guest Star

• Why Is Leonard Cohen Smiling – And Who's Lenny?

ew Video: Thanks, Leonard Cohen, For Coming To The USA

The highlight video celebrating the The Leonard Cohen World Tour Fall 2009 USA concert series is now online at

Thanks, Leonard Cohen, For Coming To The USA – The Video Celebration

A 2nd video, focusing on the Summer 2009 concerts can now be seen at

Thanks Again For The Tour – The Encore Video

Bonus: The World Tour That Might Have Been

Heck Of A Guy features exclusive videos of the Alternative Leonard Cohen World Tour, our version of how the final US concerts could be given a special, venue-specific twist:

• Leonard Cohen World Tour ON ICE – New Marketing Strategy For Florida Shows
• Leonard Cohen Rehearsal Video – New Finale For Last New York Concert
• Line Dancing to The Future
• First We Take Manhattan, Then We Go Vegas – The Leonard Cohen Girls! Girls! Girls! Las Vegas Revue

Videos Of Both Versions (1976 and 1980) of Do I Have To Dance All Night

"Do I Have To Dance All Night" was performed often in concerts but was never released in the US.

As part of my crusade to popularize this song, I've cobbled together 2 videos - one for the semi-funky 1976 version with Laura Brannigan and one for the 1980 more gypsy, less disco version - that kinda sorta fit the music.

• 1976 Do I Have To Dance All Night Video
• 1980 Do I Have To Dance All Night Video

Both videos include links to keys to the sources of the clips and the identities of the backup singers and others who are featured.

The complete story of "Do I Have To Dance All Night" is available at The Best Leonard Cohen Song You've Never Heard (Probably)

Best Of Leonard Cohen World Tour 2008-2009

The Not Too Big, Not Too Little Pyritic Book Of Leonard Cohen

• Publication of Leonard Cohen Primer Impends
• Field Guide To The Current Life Of Leonard Cohen
• Cohen Concert Correct Conduct Cue #1: Be There
• The Childhood Of Leonard Cohen
• Leonard Cohen - Boy Wonder
• The Undisappearing Of Jarkko Arjatsalo
• Cohen Concert Comportment
• Leonard Cohen - The Literary Years

The EnrichMap Web Site & Blog - Now OnLine

• EnrichMap Front Page

 AlignMap Basics of Patient Compliance

• The Top Ten Patient Compliance Points: #1
• Prevalence of Noncompliance
• The Cost of Noncompliance
• Noncompliance Myths

LeonardCohenSearch - Now OnLine

• Custom Search Tuned For Leonard Cohen Info
• Index To Selected Cohen Online References