Sublime

I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.

Mr. S put Karloff up there with the Barrymores. The only stars in Hollywood he may have admired as much were Bogart and Fred Astaire. He had met the horror icon on a studio lot in the late forties and had been bowled over by what an English gentleman he was. Karloff’s real name was William Henry Pratt and his two great passions in life were cricket

the voice on the other end of the line wasn’t my father at all, but was the voice of a narrator. He was calm, assured, and from another era…probably the fifties or sixties. This was a voice from nature documentaries or educational films made by Disney, and he wasn’t addressing me directly but was speaking to Donald Duck.