Sold a MESSIAHS to a café pal and gave one to a fellow I’ve known since kindergarten as a birthday present. Gave a CHEESESTEAK to a woman at the café on SSI, as a gift for her mother who lives in Portland but is from Philadelphia. Her mom is 90, so seven-years older than me, but some of my stuff may resonate.
Received a very nice – and thoughtful – email from a writer I don’t know, praising me and MESSIAHS. He said he had read it cover-to-cover, which makes only two people I know of who have done that. Some seem to have stopped with the introduction. Several have read the Vaughn Bode piece. A few have jumped around. One, surprisingly, was most taken by Mike Diana. No other entries have received mention.
In other news…
The Air Pirates zoom has moved a significant step closer to realization, but there have been no developments with my interview by the on-line paper. As for the woman who wants to discuss my research methodology…
She apologized for not following through again on our proposed conversation. She explained, she had (a) been hospitalized and (b) had been forced to vacate her apartment due to black mold. She was moving to LA. Maybe we could have coffee.
I said Berkeley was a long commute from LA.
Was there a train? she inquired.
AMTRAK, I said.
There things remain.
So many Bob Levins on the Internet; I'm the Bob Levin who writes.