September 8, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – You vigorously dispute the claim that your entire music collection consists of songs performed by Leonard Cohen – because you also own 2 Leonard Cohen tribute albums
September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – You send cash to a blogger you’ve never met who lives 4,000 miles away because he has tickets to the Chicago show where he might be able to pick up the Unified Heart signet ring (mid-size, silver) you want that wasn’t on sale at the European Cohen concert you attended
August 28, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – You Are Jon Stewart & Contrast Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah With Handel’s To Make A Nuanced Point About A Congressional Budget Proposal
August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – You choose your pizzeria because it’s named Leonardo’s & always order Greek Pizza because Leonard once lived in Greece
August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – First, you bought tickets in the 2013 European concert pre-sale; THEN, you figured out where the hell Pula is
August 9, 2021January 17, 2022 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – Halfway through your 900k road trip to Prague, you find yourself in a Heidelberg hotel room because you remembered Leonard Cohen once said “If Roshi had been a professor of physics at Heidelberg University, I would have learned German and gone to Heidelberg to study physics.”
August 6, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – Your ideal tour of New York is visiting the Chelsea Hotel twice and, if time permits, buying a post card of the Statue of Liberty from the rack in the lobby
July 31, 2021July 31, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – Your copy of “Lonely Planet Guide to Montreal” (with pull-out map) is falling apart from overuse – and you are an agoraphobe living in Scotland.
July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen You May Be A Leonard Cohen Fan If – You offer only polite applause at the Chicago Symphony concert (the wind entrances were uneven) but lead a standing ovation for Leonard’s one hand keyboard solo in “Tower Of Song.”