Franklin Bruno
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Strange coincidence - I don't think I've ever seen that kind of mini-toothbrush before, but there was one in my hotel room in London last week.
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Strange coincidence - I don't think I've ever seen that kind of mini-toothbrush before, but there was one in my hotel room in London last week.
"An arrangement is when someone stops playing" is the epigraph to a book of poems I published in 2012. Also advice I think of every time I rehearse new songs.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"An arrangement is when someone stops playing" is the epigraph to a book of poems I published in 2012. Also advice I think of every time I rehearse new songs.
I wish I could be clever in response, but I'm just touched by your interest and support.
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I wish I could be clever in response, but I'm just touched by your interest and support.
Shocking to you maybe. I had fun, though - it was good to meet you.
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Shocking to you maybe. I had fun, though - it was good to meet you.
I don't think you garbled anything - I was just explaining why I didn't use the better-known "celestial" in the title. IIrc, "heavenly" made me think of songs like "...Honky-Tonk Angels," which led to the overall C&W barroom-song vibe. I had other thoughts on your reading; I'll try to recall them.
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I don't think you garbled anything - I was just explaining why I didn't use the better-known "celestial" in the title. IIrc, "heavenly" made me think of songs like "...Honky-Tonk Angels," which led to the overall C&W barroom-song vibe. I had other thoughts on your reading; I'll try to recall them.
Without agreeing w/ the judgment, it's true that the 45 was a minute longer than the album version, w/ a piano solo you could, perhaps, tie to something like Dylan's "I Want You." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwN...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Without agreeing w/ the judgment, it's true that the 45 was a minute longer than the album version, w/ a piano solo you could, perhaps, tie to something like Dylan's "I Want You." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwN...
Man, I have a copy of Clinkers, but the cover got damaged; how, I don't quite recall, but it annoyed me at the time.
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Man, I have a copy of Clinkers, but the cover got damaged; how, I don't quite recall, but it annoyed me at the time.
Is this bit also from that essay? If so, it's been way too long.
October 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is this bit also from that essay? If so, it's been way too long.
I've never come across this passage. Interesting in that it puts the onus on us, now, to have correct moral views to ground our judgments about the past.
October 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I've never come across this passage. Interesting in that it puts the onus on us, now, to have correct moral views to ground our judgments about the past.
Eh, more of a Trotsky Icepick/In Camera guy.
September 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Eh, more of a Trotsky Icepick/In Camera guy.
Other stories in the collection, essentially portraits of an elderly patient and a talented but alcoholic patient, have similar qualities.
September 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Other stories in the collection, essentially portraits of an elderly patient and a talented but alcoholic patient, have similar qualities.
The directness of the prose surprised me.
September 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The directness of the prose surprised me.
Curiously, I read "The Doctor Stories" (a posthumous title/grouping, I think) by chance a few months ago, and have become more interested in him than I had been in a long time. (Chance meaning it showed up for a buck at a library book sale.)
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Curiously, I read "The Doctor Stories" (a posthumous title/grouping, I think) by chance a few months ago, and have become more interested in him than I had been in a long time. (Chance meaning it showed up for a buck at a library book sale.)
Oh, this is going to be an investment of my time, isn't it? (Nothing compared to yours of course.)
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh, this is going to be an investment of my time, isn't it? (Nothing compared to yours of course.)
Consider me the devil on your shoulder in this matter.
September 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Consider me the devil on your shoulder in this matter.
How close is Denton? (That's rhetorical: Recycled Books & Records is 40 min. away by car.)
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
How close is Denton? (That's rhetorical: Recycled Books & Records is 40 min. away by car.)
I knew about the Rimbaud but not the Williams. And I also somehow missed this Johnson book.
September 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I knew about the Rimbaud but not the Williams. And I also somehow missed this Johnson book.
Who would be representative artists for his '96-'98 categories - his labels there haven't exactly caught on?
(Also, in passing, it's sort of interesting that hip-hop, and the jazz lineage, doesn't figure in this periodization.)
(Also, in passing, it's sort of interesting that hip-hop, and the jazz lineage, doesn't figure in this periodization.)
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Who would be representative artists for his '96-'98 categories - his labels there haven't exactly caught on?
(Also, in passing, it's sort of interesting that hip-hop, and the jazz lineage, doesn't figure in this periodization.)
(Also, in passing, it's sort of interesting that hip-hop, and the jazz lineage, doesn't figure in this periodization.)
By you, or other people?
September 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
By you, or other people?
Actually, I want to read this: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rise-of-o...
The Rise of Office Literature
Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.Literary cri…
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September 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Actually, I want to read this: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rise-of-o...