Category: Books, Comics, Music
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All in Color for a Crime
My last post was a sort of improvisation on the subject of comics and the culture wars. Since I’m on the subject, here’s a tip for some very interesting reading: a good book has hit what I like to think of as the book lover’s sweet spot- available in remainder as a HC, but newly…
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Weekend Squish: Book Review
It’s Pynchon month in Squishytown! We started the festivities off by bussing down August 4 to Tattered Cover for his latest, INHERENT VICE. Things really ramped up with a 94-word run-on tribute sentence wedged into the previous Squishtoid post – still far short of the 400+ monster that opens MASON AND DIXON, but I guess…
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Goin’ Down the Road…
We’ve all got wheels, to take us far away. We’ve got [Squishtoid blogs] to say, what we can’t say… -Flying Burrito Bros. Spent the weekend listening to mountain music. That specific mix of Bluegrass, Folk, and Country Rock I first inhaled after leaving the bleak, Hard-Rock steel yards of the Queen City of the Lakes…
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Weekend Squish: A Squishing Comes Across the Sky.
Days without Job: 122 Days Without New Pynchon Novel: -3 In this newly job-less ‘slacker’s’ version of heaven, the required beach read is Thomas Pynchon. So the news, late last year, of an new TP novel, Inherent Vice, out August 4, is welcomed. The unusually quick turn-around, three years – with 10 not unusual for…
