Happy Birthday Bruce and keep running, singing, dancing, guitaring, song writing, and being you!
Bruce’s “Born to Run” below is one of the iconic songs of Rock and Roll music. But his body of work includes many more, which speak to his genius. If growing up you had some ragged edges and experiences, or didn’t meet what other people’s expectations were for you, or just rebelled because it felt like the right thing to do, even if you had no idea why, it is hard not to really like the song’s lyrics, “But tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.”
And if you’re a bit older now and life’s curve balls have brushed you back and knocked you down a few times, those same lyrics, I would guess, still pick you up and put some bounce in your step.
Written by
Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
