Sneakeater Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 I sent Pete Wells an email about something he wrote in September. I received a response a half hour ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 He does respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Eventually. It's weird, cuz he responded to my response to his response momentarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Sneakeater said: I sent Pete Wells an email about something he wrote in September. I read this as you just sent him an email about something he wrote two months ago. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 In September I sent Pete Wells an email about something he wrote. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted November 22, 2023 Share Posted November 22, 2023 Thank you. signed, a former (and maybe future) standardized test tutor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 The boy has been invited to his first Bat Mitzvah (without us). This is happening way too fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 5 hours ago, bloviatrix said: The boy has been invited to his first Bat Mitzvah (without us). This is happening way too fast. Did Pete Wells respond? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 4 hours ago, backyardchef said: Did Pete Wells respond? I'll check with her parents to see if he was invited. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted February 10, 2024 Share Posted February 10, 2024 I got a punch card this morning at the exact coffee shop depicted in this New Yorker drawing. Not one like it. The exact coffee shop. https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28251 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 13, 2024 Share Posted March 13, 2024 An upcoming piece in the LRB will report that Tom Verlaine, who passed last year, left a library of over 50,000 books. Okay, so we now know what he did with his spare time, but he seems to have said it was cheap to store them. That’s the surreal part. I had thought he lived in downtown Manhattan, not Idaho, so excuse me? Maybe “Marquee Moon” paid even for that (I have a vivid and precise understanding of the space required). But I look forward to the full article. Maybe he had storage units in Queens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 Maybe Patti Smith let him store them at her old place in Michigan for free. It certainly looks like it had a lot of storage space. https://www.mlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/05/b0b0d4edc15128/patti-smiths-former-medieval-castlelike-michigan-home-has-secret-passage-499k.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 I uncovered the letters my dad wrote to his family during WWII - he spent several years in Egypt working for a British construction company who built bases for the armed forces. Fortunately, most of the letters are typed although it's single-spaced and on onion skin. In this one, you can see where the censor had his way with one word. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 24 minutes ago, Sneakeater said: Maybe Patti Smith let him store them at her old place in Michigan for free. It certainly looks like it had a lot of storage space. https://www.mlive.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/05/b0b0d4edc15128/patti-smiths-former-medieval-castlelike-michigan-home-has-secret-passage-499k.html She did alright for “Piss Factory.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 No, no. Okay he was older than me, but old bookstores staying open late? Cheap books? Offset press, blah blah? Collecting 50K books is beyond that. I would not want that many books. I have around 4K, could go to 10K if I lived long enough. But we are looking at something compulsive here. 50K books is not, absolutely not “a reminder of different days.” There may be a good explanation and I look forward to seeing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 If Tom Verlaine were like you and me he wouldn't have been Tom Verlaine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 I mean I can't speak for you, but I've never produced anything like Marquee Moon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 It's funny, cuz just this morning I was (without having a fever) (that I know) contemplating why the lyrics to "Marquee Moon" (the song) or "The Arms of Venus de Milo" are great, and the lyrics to "Roundabout" or "Yours Is No Disgrace" suck -- even though none of them is immediately comprehensible -- and I decided that T. Verlaine's lyrics have very tight specific images whereas Anderson's (if my assumption is right that he wrote the lyrics) are just random brain farts that might mean something to the author but have nothing for anyone else to peg anything on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 Although the point is really THE GUITARS duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 13 minutes ago, Sneakeater said: If Tom Verlaine were like you and me he wouldn't have been Tom Verlaine. Right, not like me in so many ways, but I have collected thousands of books. And I am aware of the scale of libraries collected by others. This is way, way out there, so I am excited to know why. He was like me in taking the M14D but he would (pretend to) be asleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 As for Anderson I would always refer to the iconic album review of the first Yes album by my friend Charles Shaar Murray. “No.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeater Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 I was only setting you up for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyardchef Posted March 14, 2024 Share Posted March 14, 2024 10 hours ago, Wilfrid said: Right, not like me in so many ways, but I have collected thousands of books. And I am aware of the scale of libraries collected by others. This is way, way out there, so I am excited to know why. Maybe there are just A WHOLE LOT of very slim chapbooks.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted March 14, 2024 Author Share Posted March 14, 2024 (edited) Last night, I watched a documentary from 2019 called "All We've Got", about the death/redefinition of lesbian spaces, and I was astounded to see myself twice in the background of some archival footage. I'm still embarrassed about how dorky I looked at 22. Edited March 14, 2024 by StephanieL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted March 15, 2024 Share Posted March 15, 2024 Oh please, all I have is a trivial picture someone took last week at Kayla Farrish’s show which shows me from behind with thinning hair. Glory in being there in your alleged dorkiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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