Had a Stephin Merritt sighting on 8th Ave.
I've decided to serialize "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, copyright law be damned (Sorry Matt S. and Bantam Books). Here are the first installements, from "Stave One," titled "Marley's Ghost":
"It is required of every man", the Ghost returned, that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world-oh, woe is me! -and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness."
Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands.
"You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
Scrooge trembled more and more.
"Or would you know," pursued the Ghost, "the weight and lenght of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!"
Tomorrow night is Underworld. I'm a bit hesitant, as I'm sure it will be much like the Paul Oakenfold show, a bunch of really young raver kids and a nasty "bridge and tunnel" crowd who know Underworld from their song in "Trainspotting." "Bridge and Tunnel" crowd refers to people who go into Manhattan from the suburbs and are rowdy and drunk and just plain assholes. I think it mainly refers to people from Westchester County and New Jersey, but technically I am a bridge and tunnel since I live in Brooklyn.
October 17, 2002
1.Venn Diagrams
2.Diagramming Sentances
3.Alicia Erian
4.Cometbus Omnibus
5.Howard Zinn
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