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p.s. Hey. As I mentioned a couple of p.s.es ago, I'm heading out of town this evening for a few days, and I won't have time while away to do my usual blog duties/pleasures, so you'll be getting older, revived posts tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday, and I'll be back with new stuff and fresh p.s.es beginning on Monday when I will catch up all the comments that accumulate between now and then. ** Torn porter, Hi. That Gladman book is just terrific. It's part of a trilogy of novels that I'm starting to make my way through. Just colors re: the Eddo Stern? Huh. The P.O. Box address seemed like it would swallow a small package, so I sent it there. Should be good. Take care while I'm off and away. ** Bill, Hi, B. Eddo is kind of really brilliant, I think. Glad his stuff intrigued you. I got the 2013 Buche Parade post set up yesterday, and it'll happen next week. I did enjoy what your friend sent, or started to do so just now, and I'll let it flow a bit later. Thanks, Bill! ** David Ehrenstein, A bracing, lovely West Coast morning to you, sir. ** Sypha, I hope everything goes as well as can be, which I guess would be meaningfully (?), at the wake and funeral. William Bennett on Lady Gaga?! This I guess I have to read, thanks. I wonder if I'm imagining he would say is what he said. ** _Black_Acrylic, I didn't know that was happening, but go France, sure! I did wonder why the street and the cafe just up the road were clangier last night than usual. Best of luck to Dundee. I haven't seen your newsy late breaking comment yet, but it's, uh, 8:30 am at the moment, so maybe I should refresh the comments and see what's what. Intake of breath. Nope, still no word. But I did one last refresher before I posted this and ... sorry, Ben. Hugs to Dundee. And you're absolutely no doubt right about how that contest works. Still, sigh, grr. ** les mots dans le nom, Obviously, I always love the books that I say I do, but that was an especially strong trio of books yesterday, it's true. I suppose there was some dry humor in my smile in that hugging Minnie photo, but it looks like joy was the winner of my lips or eyes or both. You enjoy your week and weekend too, please. ** Paul Curran, Yeah, really good books yesterday. It was the first time I'd read Eugene Lim after hearing a lot about him, and, yeah, no kidding, he is really, really good. Great about the pdf! It's looking pretty good for Japan in January. Hopefully Zac and I all be ticketed up by the next time I translate myself into a p.s. ** Creative Massacre, Hi, Misty. I'm very good, thank you. That was a pretty nice day you had, yes. Pretty in the sense of the word's full, main meaning re: beauty and not in the way it just means 'sort of' when employed as an adjective a la its use in that sentence I just wrote. Enjoy the good Doctor's take over! ** Steevee, Oh, God, dentists. Yuck. I was supposed to have a broken tooth of mine extracted and replaced with a fake one about three years ago, and the dentist was amazed at the time that I wasn't in terrible pain from the broken tooth, and I still don't feel a wisp of pain from it, but, yeah, I should have gotten it removed, etc. So I guess the wise thing to do is to do what the dude says? ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Yeah, really good book threesome. Tight bunch. The Pompidou's excuse for doing a crappy version of the Mike Kelley was budgetary concerns, but that's bullshit, really, given the expensive shows they've been doing before and after. I think it was probably an ego thing. Rumor has it that the P. at first didn't want the Kelley retrospective, they wanted to do their own MK retrospective instead. The MK Foundation supposedly said, no way, take the retrospective as is or nothing. The P. was pissed off, and took the retrospective begrudgingly and punishingly. That's what I hear. I don't know. Anyway, despite the great work in the Paris version, it was half-assed and very disrespectful, and it was a bad decision because no one was happy. I'm early-working in a scrapbook page. Thanks, J. Wow, that paragraph about 'Period' and the Cycle is a dream come true or something. I hadn't seen that and, yeah, thanks a lot! That's really, really nice to read and very heartening, obviously. Cool. I hope the rest of your week and -end go splendidly, man. ** Misanthrope, Hi, George. Well, I guess that, all in all, that's a good diagnosis as diagnoses go since it'll hopefully get her to do what she should do anyway. Is she? Man, sorry about your horrible day. Fill in the awful blank when you're rational, yes, please. Shit, I'm sorry, buddy. At least Le Petit Show will be there to distract you by the time I see you next. Give him a hug or a pat on the head or whatever feels respectful yet affectionate from me, yes? ** Etc etc etc, Hi. Yeah, Leyner blurbed his book, so that makes total sense. And, yes, the Jon Leon comparison makes sense too. JL is great. I'm jonesing for more from him. Sunday for Skyping should be okay for me, I think. Write to me and we'll sort it out. My email is dcooperweb@gmail.com. CCM and LF are great suggestions. Michael Seidlinger is a complete sweetheart and quite the excellent writer too. I made it through about 14 minutes of the Bret/Kanye podcast before I got bored and bailed. Yeah, I think Bret maybe needs to get over nervously saying way more than he needs to say, for one thing. He probably will as the show continues. And hopefully he'll book guests whom he's less awestruck to have on the show. I too thought that 'Pacific Rim' thing was the most interesting moment of the chunk that I listened to. Prose is so huge. I've been writing prose for forever, it feels like, and always looking for a new way to go and a new way to get there, and there's always a way and a way. Pretty magical stuff. Great week and weekend to you, my friend! ** Okay. I've been in a stacking state of mind recently, so here's another one for you. Hope it suits whatever it is that you expect from this blog. I wish a very fine rest-of-the-week and weekend to those of you to whom I haven't already wished such a thing. I hope you enjoy the reruns, and I'll see you back here on Monday.