Which reminds me... happy belated 100th -- it was yesterday -- to I.B. Singer. (IJS/IBS being the memory switch.) One of the guys at the Paris Review event yesterday is co-owner of a bar called K.G.B. where they were having a celebration of the centenary. K.G.B.? "Yeah, Singer probably woulda got a kick out of that."
I love I.B. Singer. "Taibele's Demon" - genius. "Gimpel the Fool" - genius. "Spinoza of Market Street" - genius. Funny and heartbreaking too. I read his short stories in tandem with Flannery O'Connor's when I first moved to San Francisco in the mid eighties.
Huh. Apparently, Arthur Kane didn't even know he had leukemia. He went to the doctor with "flu-like symptoms" and that's when they diagnosed him. (This is also from Yahoo.)
Feh. Not liking the new All-Music Guide. It's freakin' 2 pt. type. If I wanted that I'd go to Pitchfork.
In other annoying news, I bought the new Fiery Furnaces record. Brought to work to listen to it. It fell between my desk and my wall. The desk is not moveable - it's bolted in. It's gone, and yet it is inches from my foot. Bother.
Hec, can you get a yardstick in there? Or a long piece of cardstock?
Hec, can you get a yardstick in there? Or a long piece of cardstock?
Apparently somebody with building services has just such a special stick since a few lawyers have lost their briefs down there (so to speak) in that nether realm.
Apparently somebody with building services has just such a special stick since a few lawyers have lost their briefs down there (so to speak) in that nether realm.
And here I thought briefs were supposed to cover the nether realms, not lose them.
BLACK HOLE BRIEFS & BOXERS
Is bolting the desk in a security thing? Or an earthquake thing?
Newsweek article & interview with They Might Be Giants.
Ta da! And building services rescues
Blueberry Boat
from office furniture purgatory.
Mostly, I am loading Tom Waits onto my computer today. The Frank Trilogy and
Alice.
I am now seeing
Alice
as a natural bookend to the Frank Trilogy, with
One From The Heart
one the other side.
Hooray and avast, Blueberry Boat!