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p.s. Hey. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. Oh, yes, I know what truffles are. There's a great, famous small shop here, La Maison de la Truffe, that sells nothing but truffles and truffle-based things, from truffle pasta to truffle-inflected cheese and candies, etc. So nice of you about that scarf. It's very handsome, but, yeah, I don't think I could wear it without turning beet red and getting a very bad headache 'cos of my allergies, unfortunately. And dark blue is a particularly toxic color/dye for me for some weird reason. Lighter colors are less bad, but I don't like lighter colors very much. I'm a mess. But it was so cool of you to think of me in its a regard. That's plenty. I love conceptual stuff the best. ** Wolf, Wolfy, duderina! Ha ha. There's a famous episode of the old 'Twilight Zone' TV series where a kid wishes it was Xmas every day and gets his wish, and his and his family's lives turned into a suicide-inspiring drudgery of routine and meaningless generosity, etc., so I've always had that episode censoring me when I think, 'Xmas every day, why not, perfect!' Grandma socks, nice. What are they like visually and texturally? We had one buche so far, the Pierre Herme one, uh, hold on, ... this one. There's another one imminent that I can't talk about today for reasons too complicated to explain, but I can tomorrow, and your mind will be blown. Probably gonna get a third one for Xmas day itself, not sure which yet. Oh, I have to admit that I like those over-familiar Xmas songs, I don't know why. Some boring reason no doubt. What would I change about Xmas ... ? Hm, okay, more decorations. Tons and tons more Xmas decorations. Every building and window and storefront and tree and etc., etc. in whatever city I was in would be jam-packed with Xmas decorations, so dense that you could hardly think straight, and they wouldn't have to cut down more trees to do that. Everything would just magically appear a week before Xmas and disappear the day after Xmas. Thanks about my ghost poem. Yeah, that one is kind of pretty good, I think. Blush. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you mightily for the cinematic weekend! I watched the first two films while I was wrapping presents, and they were gorgeous. I'm going to try to get in the 'Murray' film today. ** Rigby, Hi, R! Nah, I love Slayer and Swans, but their palate is very narrow, which is a really good thing, mind you, but I think Pavement's thing was big enough that they could have gone outward into Slayer or Swans territory and maintained their thing, and Malkmus's lyrics are better, and I, you know, write words and all of that. The Fall is a superb choice. See, I could have gone for them. Happy Mondays ... interesting. Not for me, but interestingly revealing about you. Stay a good boy, Rigster, and ...gold in my eye, wow, that would be nice. Or not 'in' my eye 'cos that would hurt but maybe gold seeping up from my eye's depths like water from ice or something. Happy Xmas if I don't see you before, but I sure hope I will. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. What are you guys doing for Xmas, if anything? ** Allesfliesst, Hey, Kai! Super really awesome to see you! I was in Berlin for two days a while back, but it was business-oriented for the most part, so I stuck to my guns while there. I have been a good boy this year, I'm pretty sure. No spanking required or warranted, I don't think. I'm not the best judge, though. Life in Paris is quite excellent, sir! Beauty and chill everywhere and on/in everything. I'm here for the duration. Aw, sad that that 'Snow Queen' production was sold out. Based on the HC Anderson thing? Wait, no, I think I'm wrong about that. You have my booklet without seeing 'The Pyre'. That's illegal, sir. Burn it henceforth. No, but I don't know what happens with or from that text if you haven't seen the show. They're kind of co-dependent unless you tell me otherwise. Warm hugs from the cold not-as-north! Stick around, buddy. ** Steevee, Hope the interview went really well. Oh, wait, it did go well enough. I jumped the gun before scrolling down. Good. That era of Cabaret Voltaire is quite odd. I need to revisit it. ** Keaton, Hi. Wait, that's your body and your tattoos? Those are something else. Like pop art-meets-disease looking things. I like them, in other words. Weird. Explain. Everyone, I think if you click this, you will get to see both the upper torso of Keaton and his new tattoos, although it is possible that said torso and tattoos are in fact things he is recommending that I/you look at and not in fact his. In any case, worth a look. Oh, and Keaton also has some other Xmas presents for us, I think. I.e., here's'When Christ was born', and here's'Such a beautiful baby', and here's'thank you based God'. My Xmas is made. Those could be the only Xmas presents I get this year. Thank you for potentially saving my Xmas from utter oblivion. How's it hanging, man? ** Chilly Jay Chill, Interesting if not revelatory, for sure. A curiously mapped out minor sideline spot, which is good enough. The Insect Trust, sure, wow, and, yeah, I def. get the point of comparison. Nice. Well, my final drafts are more like a hundred drafts rolled into one because it takes me so long to right my prose. So, yeah, I mean, if I worried about the slackness of my prose in the first draft, I wouldn't write. I try to write good sentences at first, but, if trying too hard slows me up, I just let myself write thoughtlessly because I know I'll be fiddling with the writing for ages afterwards. Sometimes writing a little slackly is very interesting, at least for me, because you relax and find rhythms in your language output that you would normally censor out because they seem lazy or undoable compared to the kinds of sentences you instinctively admire and aspire to, but sometimes you'll end up finding within that slackness a new kind of chassis to work with or something. All of which is to say, personally, I wouldn't worry about the slackness, assuming you're down for intensive editing later. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. My weekend was A-okay, thank you. 'In a Year of 13 Moons' would cleanse the Xmas out of Santa Claus himself. So, that should totally work. I was reading about 'Computer Chess' the other day. It was on some best of 2013 lists by some people I respect. Curious. Thanks, Bill. Enjoy the Xmas run up as best you can, please? ** End. I think today's post counts as a Xmas-related post if you like the idea of getting another Xmas-related post from me. Or, on the other hand, it could be taken as something that is as contextually free as a bird or whatever. See you tomorrow.