For reasons unknowable to myself, I was drawn to excavate the Sherman Alexie short story What You Pawn I Will Redeem first from the recesses of my mind and thence from the archives of the New Yorker. It remains as astonishing and moving as it was on first reading. I so want to read it aloud to Viv, but I shall refrain. I know I did at the time that it first appeared in the magazine. While I read to her now and again this was the hardest thing I have ever read aloud.
I have been using the Google browser at work this week. I like it a lot, especially the minor-seeming UI refinements. It also seems to whomp Firefox in terms of not eating memory over time. Wonder is there's an ETA on a Mac version?
The halo, as seen in news pics of politicos, has been commented upon in these pages before. This would appear to be the post-modern culmination of the art.
THE LAST STIFF COMPILATION...UNTIL THE NEXT ONE.
Picked this up at Duroc Records in 1980, who knows where it is now. Listened to it over and over and over and over and over and over again. I think I must have grabbed Red Snerts the same day.
It did not really turn out to be a roadmap to the future of rock and pop, but it did lay ground work for a broad ear leaning to quirky stuff. Really looking forward to hearing it again, in the order decreed by Stiff.
