In that I received out of the blue two things from my wishlist: A history of CURRY and a big coffee table book of picture of ATOMIC BOMB BLASTS, both courtesy of the lovely, talented, and much-appreciated rumplestimpskin!!!
Off to read one or both of them to the cat.
THANKS STIMPY!!!
Best T-shirt Gift Ever
The t-shirts at psychotherapyclothing.com are also reasonably funny but nothing I couldn’t make myself. A badly ironed on “emotionally unavailable” is more authentic anyway.
I just got in the mail from him two books: Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps and Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato.
The Greene is wonderfully gloomy. Mr. G heads off to Liberia in the late thirties and wallows in the horrors of colonialism. Not only are things completely fucked-up, but reading it now I know how much worse they got. All of the gloom is worth it, though, for his prose.
Going After Cacciato is a wonderful novel that I read when it came out. I haven’t had my own copy (I read my dad’s) and hadn’t re-read it since, although I have recommended it to others. It’s a picaresque journey/magic realist fantasy set during the Vietnam war, but that doesn’t do it justice at all.
Thanks Nat! That was really cool of you!
The aforementioned Alan Watts CDs which are all ripped to mp3 now!
The aforementioned Buddhist art books.
A 7 CD set of Jelly Roll Morton’s 1938 Library of Congress recordings. WOW.
A handheld food mill that purees small quantities of fruit or vegetables, etc.
A package each of concentrated chicken and beef stock.
An out-of-the-blue gift from Jeff, who is one of the numerous good friends I’ve never met.
Stumptown coffee and a beautifully handmade cup from vegemitelover, also totally unexpected.
A t-shirt my parents bought literally 15 years ago in Vancouver which has Haida native art on it, causing synchronicity wtf since I now host haidalanguage.org on my DSL box for torgo_x.
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