I don't get beamed down this way usually, but it's time for a change of scenery
I was not designed by nature for appointments at eight in the morning, especially not on less than two hours' sleep, but I feel smug that I used the remainder of the morning to meet up with
a_reasonable_man at his office, visit a used book store in Harvard Square, and make a grocery run through Stop & Shop. I came home with copies of ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003), Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone (1998), Boston Noir ed. Dennis Lehane (2009), and Gail Scott's Heroine (1987), plus a pile of groceries, and then I tried to work and instead fell asleep for three hours. I spent the rest of my evening proofreading. Have some links.
1. Courtesy of Marc Abrahams: "An ode to the view of Boston from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge."
2. Courtesy of
spatch: "Patriotic Lobsters: An American Mystery."
3. Everyone who has never heard Robert Black performing Tom Johnson's "Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass," please take nine minutes out of your life right now. "Or, putting it another way, I will probably succeed in failing to succeed . . ."
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1. Courtesy of Marc Abrahams: "An ode to the view of Boston from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge."
2. Courtesy of
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3. Everyone who has never heard Robert Black performing Tom Johnson's "Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass," please take nine minutes out of your life right now. "Or, putting it another way, I will probably succeed in failing to succeed . . ."
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Thank you! I was out and about and the only thing I did not manage to do was return a DVD to the library, although I'm not sure with which hands I would have managed it by the time I was carrying a computer bag, a brown paper bag full of books, and groceries.
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That is a very respectable bookstore haul!
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I don't think I've ever seen one. I had no idea I was missing such a subculture.
That is a very respectable bookstore haul!
The ZZ Packer came from
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Otherwise, wow.
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That makes sense to me as a pivot for the joke. I can't tell if there's significance to the doughboy uniform or if that was just part of the American image abroad.
Otherwise, wow.
That is an appropriate response to the patriotic lobster.
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Oh, nice! I'd love to. I'd had no idea it existed.
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Like what else?
I highly recommend seeing it if you ever notice it being performed, the audience anticipation definitely adds to the experience
I bet!
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You're welcome!
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I can see how that happened.
(I got it off of one of my music blogs. It sounds like this.)
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Oh, nice.
I once heard someone sing "Girlfriend in a Coma" to the tune of "Tiptoe through the Tulips" on I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue and ever since my brain has believed that that is its rightful melody.
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I'm so impressed by all of it.
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You're welcome! I had no idea, either, and
"But as you probably guessed by now, I'm well into the improvised part of the text . . ."