Thank you, Abraham Lincoln!!
Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is February 12. He will be 199 years old.
In honor of this great man’s accomplishments, I would like to direct you to the mySpace page of Minneapolis’ own, Best Friends Forever, who have written and recorded a most beautiful tribute to our nation’s 16th President. The song, entitled “My Head In Front of Your Head”, is a splendid biopic about a man who suffered chronic bouts of depression, which twice landed him near suicide. Lincoln was charming, gregarious, and funny. He wore a love of the arts on his sleeve and expressed a deep knowledge of pretty much any topic you can think of. Not an attractive man, Honest Abe was able to marry into the well-to-do Todd family of Kentucky through his sincerity and his ability to make chics laugh and smile through his storytelling.
(Above: Best Friends Forever)
It is no surprise to me that ladies in present day Minneapolis would want to go back in time and put their head in front of his in order to save him from the bullet that took his life. Considered by many to be our nation’s greatest President (I put him in the top 2), it is refreshing to see a resurgence in Lincoln-interest as of late, started in large part by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s fantastic bestseller, “Team of Rivals“.
My hat’s off to Best Friends Forever, and I look forward to seeing this, dare I say “geek-rock”, band develop!
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