What can you say? By all accounts a kind and generous person, thoughtful, caring, devoted to the arts and helping humanity and the environment, with a great sense of humor, he created one of the most iconic characters of the 20th Century (and beyond). He'll be missed by entire generations of fans and fellow travelers.
Not unpredictable to spend a cold-but-not-quite-as-COLD-as-it-has-been Saturday mostly indoors.
What it sounds like is: opera on the radio + the "let-me-out-of-here" hiss and gurgle of the steam from the last few drops of coffee in the thermos + the "what-the-shit-is-going-on?" rattle clank and hiss of the radiator racketing valiantly against the weather.
Snow just starting to fall. Again. Cory taking a nap trying to shake the head-throat-and-chest cold that came along with the stupid-cold temperatures. I've been going back and forth between the paper, magazines, a book, and the multitude of screens.
Squeezing shows in wherever we can. Did a BMI reading on Wednesday. Last night was a Bud Light- (for the performers) and Murphy's- (for me) -soaked Hank V, with nary a Hank Cinq joke to be heard, as part of Sherin & JP's going away extravaganza in honor of their imminent West Coast relocation. Tonight is the Gob Squad at Skirball. Tomorrow Cory presumably will rally for a seminar she needs to attend; I may hit a matinee, and then the Oscars tomorrow night.
Anecdote from this morning:
Cory asked about the music I'd put on.
Oh, it's a compilation Fast Folk put out in the late 80s.
"Have you played this before?"
No, I just found it a little while ago. Frank used to read & listen to the Fast Folk stuff a lot - I just found all these streaming versions of their releases. I was looking for a dulcimer player we used to listen to.
"Of course you were."
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