What to do? I want to go to Minnetrista and see the Farmer's Market. I need to get groceries. I did get to McClure's for a 2 liter of Coke. I am all ready to go, and 2 hours after getting up, I do not feel any enthusiasm. The solution seems to be to skip the Farmer's Market, get the 9:45 Whitely bus, and go to Payless for the weekend's eats, and then back here to start on the pile of pretrial detention notes.
Sounds like a plan. Considering how the past week's plans have gone, I will probably get run over by the 9:45 bus.
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day seems appropriate the day after Jerry Lee Lewis died, notorious:
Notorious describes people and things that are famously known, especially for something unfavorable.
// They live in a region that's notorious for its severe winters.
The Guardian published another piece on Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis was a star who lived life dangerously close to the edge:
His significant recordings were now behind him, but for the rest of his life he could always pull a crowd, always share a stage with Johnny Cash or Bruce Springsteen or Keith Richards. When Dennis Quaid played him as a wild-eyed loon in the 1989 biopic Great Balls of Fire, Lewis said “I just thought it was bad. It just wasn’t right, it wasn’t Jerry Lee Lewis.” Basically, it wasn’t about the music. The soundtrack album, as if to prove Lewis right, sold a million copies, and became his all-time best seller. Though there would be more near-death situations, more run-ins with the IRS, more issues with the state of his liver and his finances, he would always remain a stylist. “When they look back on me, I want them to remember me not for all my wives, although I’ve had a few, and certainly not for any mansions, or high-living money I made and spent. I want them to remember me simply for my music.”
Do we all not want to be remembered more for the beauty we tried to create than for ourselves?
I did not get the 9:45 bus as I was still diddling with blog posts. I missed the 10:30 Mall bus because I had other things on my mind and was hanging out where I was to meet the Whitely bus. I had started walking towards where I would have picked up the Mall bus, and I kept walking. Walked through the Mall all the way to Panera where I got a bagel. Then back to the Mall to get the bus. That bus showed up, and I rode along until I got downtown, to the bus station, where I picked up the Northwest Plaza bus. That bus got me to Payless and then back downtown. I did not want to wait another half hour for the Whitely bus, so I took the Mall us back to where I started buses. I ate lunch and started up the computer.
Wanting some music, I started with KDHX's Greaser' Lunchbox.
One site pointed me to Proper Manuscript Format, Modern Edition. This being the second time I have seen this reference, I decided to give it a look, and then I decided to get some writing done.
The PC Magazine newsletter was int eh email, and I had to check out James Webb Telescope Snaps Spooky Image of the Pillars of Creation. Awe-inspiring photographs. Ignore me and look at them now.
I submitted "Problem Solving" to ServiceScape Short Story Award. No fee for that one.
Seems like all I have done the past 3 hours is 2 posts that will see the light of day in December. I did listen to a Jerry Lee Lewis album, and I am listening to the Many Moods of Ben Vaughn. Here it is 5:19, and I am going to have dinner.
More typing after dinner. I called my niece and got voicemail. My cousin Paul did not answer. I kept working on my posts about Raymond Chandler. I did some email with T2. I did some research along with my Chandler posts.
This is what did not go into tonight's post :
- Analysis of Dashiell Hammett’s Novels
- Red Harvest: A Book Review
- A PI Review by Dan Stumpf: DASHIELL HAMMETT – Red Harvest.
- Book Review : Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest (1929)
- Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco
- Dashiell Hammett’s “Private Eye”:No Loyalty Beyond the Job
- THE LITTLE SISTER (1949) by Raymond Chandler
- THE CONTINENTAL OP: HAMMETT’S FIRST HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE
- Crime/Mystery Series: The Continental Op
- Dashiell Hammett (Rest in Pieces)
- Dashiell Hammett - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
- » TWELVE IMPORTANT ACADEMIC ESSAYS ON CRIME FICTION, by Josef Hoffmann.
Another article on Jerry Lee: Watch Keith Richards, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mick Fleetwood play ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Listening to Backwoods on WMBR. Another Halloween show.
It is 9:52 PM and I just finished reading an article on Lillian Hellman. Is it my curiosity or procrastination that finds so much else to read? Does it matter? My eyeballs ache. This is the end of my Saturday night.
An old favorite, there is no "she" waiting for me to come back, but it still feels appropriate:
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