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“The first thing I did in the hotel room was unplug the toilet.”
Hunting down a bookshop that’s breaking street date by five days? One of the highlights of the week.
Overheard conversation:
- Then a K9 cop came down the aisle while the train was between stations.
- Guess they were looking for bombs. Or drugs.
- Probably not drugs.
- Liberals. Must’ve been a liberal sniffer.
A while back I stumbled on [...]
Finally getting to a sleepy place last night and there’s a knock at the door. 11:32. Do I ignore it? There’s another knock. Maybe the building is on fire. They’d probably knock harder… unless they don’t like me much. I should go see if the building is on fire. I’ve got lights flipped on and [...]
Paul Auster. Never read him until the last 24 hours. It looked like the lightest book in the unread pile on a night calling for the lightest book in the pile. Hundred-forty-some pages; the first fifty flew by bedtime, the second fifty before the AM train hit the city, and everything else gone before the [...]