While the industrious senior ladies are cleaning the house, I fire up a machine to tell you about the following items:
* Ryoko’s charcoal kiln & general resourcefulness
* Kerouac in Kobe video and postal dossiers (and redundant backgrounder)
* Centenarys of Tutankhamen discovery, James Joyce’s Ulysses, plus something about Allen Ginsberg’s Howl obscenity trial
* Loads of poetry by mail from Ron Whitehead, Jinn Bug, Marc Zegans, Isabella Mori plus the Muriel’s Journey “Fire in the Heart” collection and a mention of advisor/ designer Carol Sill
* Also music from Peter Lemon, and cassettes from Ron Whitehead plus my own recent barrage of burned CDs and mixed cassettes
* Historic Vancouver neon and transit treats from John and Rebecca / hooray Ovaltine! And wondering about of Finch’s café
* The nice lady at the post office and the importance of a “solid franking” stamp
* Upcoming talking on Jason Emde’s “writers read the early shit” and our lovely postcard correspondence
* Update about the specialty ME/cfs medical visits to the university research hospital, new IVs and cocktails and off-label medications
* I moved my website host to one that plants trees and accommodates my “high volume/low bandwidth” needs / here’s an affiliate link: https://www.greengeeks.com/track/u149324
* Oh and all that stuff about Japan is “opening up” and a few tips and logistics for coming to visit and of course, telling you there are more resources including field notes from various museums, outings and cities which specifically *are not* Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto
Oh yeah, Ichiro’s super cute passport photos in his sailor outfit
Thank you for always checking in on me and saying kind things when I’m having a hard time because of typhoon air pressure crushing my delicate head