Garrison Keillor: Being a dad

great monologue

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Entertainment

[lonelygnome1]

This is really spectacular writing.

[FeelOfFriction]

I'm so glad I discovered this man.

[Chibijess14]

Love listening to Keillor. Can't stand the audiences that laugh at every little single thing he says, even things that aren't meant to be funny. Let him tell the damn story.

[46dougger]

Brilliant... loving... creative. Everything I'd love to be.

[fuckyu2asshole]

@thetyrant84

Seriously? You hear a first class ode to fatherhood, by one of only a handful of men on the planet that could have written it, and you want to include 10 minutes of legaleze disclaiming every misstep and error he has ever made? Just so as not to cause offence to some insignificant piece of shit like yourself?

Grow up moron.

[KikAssConn]

"Isn't it nice, when things just...work" - Honda Ad

[pgc4sean]

Post a video of a cat. Millions of views.

Post something real like Mr Keillor.... meh, a few thousand are interested.

[BarbarianDragon]

@thetyrant84

dude, lay off prairie home companion. i will literally eat your babies.



[ll043]

Lov it.

[YourFaceWillDie468]

I hate how Keillor always speaks in an unnaturally high register. I read somewhere that he described himself as "a baritone who wants to be a tenor," and I find that somewhat nonsensical. What kind of a man wants to have a high voice rather than a deep voice?

[thetyrant84]

It's disengenuous for him to write "marriage is about the well-being of children"- what about his kids from his 1st or 2nd marriage? He surely could have included, "full disclosure, I'm a philandering millionaire in no position to be chiding gays for... wearing polka dot shirts and chartreuse pants?"

He uses nonsensical stereotypes about gays, arguing that those stereotypes are what justifies the lack of acceptance for gay families. Tell me the "painful" lesson a gay reader is supposed to take.

[PTFAbedeh]

@thetyrant84 If everyone extolled only the virtues that they themselves had, we would have no articulations of virtue to speak of. It seems to me that one who struggles with commitment might write the greatest paean to it. And it's not supposed to be light-hearted. Satire can be painful.

And for the record, the article never once suggests that gays should be precluded from getting married or having kids. He writes specifically from the perspective that gay marriages can't rightly be disallowed.