May 24, 1995

I’m sliding naked down a beer-slicked escalator median.

July 19, 1995

I think he’s more like a cross between Buster Keaton and William Henry Harrison.

August 7, 1995

I got a machine gun cartridge case. It’s just a small thin hollow brass metal cylinder. I saw the big machine that stamped out thousands of them per minute.

November 25, 1995

Whenever anyone has a question about Cheap Trick, Rush, or Steve Martin, he’s right there with the answer.

May 27, 1997

If you know of any other albums that could reasonably be described as “the half-conscious moanings of a drugged thunder god”, please let me know.

December 15, 1999

A— mailed me a painting of a Christmas tree. I would never have guessed that’s what it is, but after he told me, I can see the resemblance.

August 5, 1999

He’s thinking about becoming a long distance truck driver or a mailman.

April 15, 2003

Only the acrid odor of the singed pot finally breaks the spell of the harmonium.

June 1, 1994

The Swedish Stockhausen guy is supposed to send me some Aphex Twin.

June 1, 1994

This kind of attention to detail is likely to impress even the unsophisticated reader.

May 8, 1994

D— sat in a chair and never smiled except when he made a mistake on the guitar.

December 19, 1995

He drew up a short list of words, e.g., bottle, factory, fish, gun. Then he wrote out of all the combinations of two: bottle factory, factory bottle, bottle fish, fish bottle, bottle gun, gun bottle, factory fish, fish factory, factory gun, gun factory, fish gun, gun fish. Then he asked 100 undergraduates what each one meant.

December 29, 1995

He paid three times as much for his copy and his didn’t come with the 30-page booklet. Gloat gloat.

January 4, 1996

After the show he said that he had been half asleep during the performance and this is his new custom, to perform while half asleep.

January 9, 1996

Here’s a rough draft of my New Year’s resolutions:

1. Eat more tangerines.
2. Ride around more on the CTA.
3. Read more Japanese novels.
4. Drink more coffee in more diners.
5. Discard more unnecessary possessions.
6. Gaze more at Lake Michigan.
7. Buy more Cecil Taylor albums.
8. Learn more German.

It’s going to be a pretty existential year.

August 29, 1996

...so there’ll be this statue of a woman with a flowing robe and long flowing hair, looking goddess-like, except in her arms is a giant squid.

October 17, 1997

Can I run my old DOS programs on it?

January 9, 1997

What I ate for dinner: a can of pineapple chunks and a bag of microwave popcorn.

January 28, 1997

“World-weary” is the operative word here.

July 22, 1997

To: Greg_Ginn@cyberden.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: GREG GINN TOUR DATES UPDATE
Date: 1994

In article 175370143.6682585 you write:
>GREG GINN with Transition Tour Schedule
>08/22  ATOMIC MUSIC HALL  ATHENS, GA
>[etc.]

Mr. Ginn,
This has nothing to do with alt.zines.  Please
confine your postings to appropriate newsgroups.

== Seth Tisue (s-tisue@anl.gov)

August 17, 1998

Did you know that both senators from Hawaii are named Daniel K. something?

January 30, 1995

I should have realized that “the war between the lampshades and the lichens” was far more logical.

January 30, 1995

The first six minutes or so are overlapping, gradually louder layers of insectlike buzzing, which by the time it gets really loud is suddenly ZAP! cut off by a zapping noise, followed by that running-water-and-schoolchildren stuff (I think you know what I mean).

April 5, 1999

That’s the second time in three days I've been accused of being pretentious. (The first was when my friends A— and M— saw my fabulous new thrift store raincoat.)