Some people have asked recently about Misfits, and though I'm not doing pr for them, here's a bit of info. Next questioner will be referred back here!
I saw their earliest show, in the fifties at the Edinburgh Festival, then another later in London. Go find them, several audios with a bit of video footage -- they predated what we do now. Still funny. Evergreen.
And while I'm involved in James Baldwin The Fire Next Time as well as Henrietta Lacks, I needed a bit of light relief with this Patchett.
And a new puzzle. I like the Springbok 500 pieces. The subjects are photographic, the pieces big enough to pick up without scrabbling, and some have interesting shapes. All good.
Happy day everyone, better than Gary's day, where he spilled an entire container of pungent oil-based stain on his concrete patio, and ran over asking for suggestions on how to lift the stain! He'd already got a lot of the liquid up, and we conferred on next steps.
I would like to say before I forget, that I really appreciate blogistas who read with care what I write with care, also the comments that appear before theirs.
That's so great in an age where people tend to rush, hitting the high spots, and miss a lot. You're very much valued, an endangered species. I'm lucky you read here.
And here's the accordion joke revisited
