Hey, sorry to bump incidentally, but if anyone orders the book and has a problem receiving it within a couple weeks, please let me know. I think I have all the Amazon problems cleared up, but it never hurts to make absolutely sure. (Well, unless one makes absolutely sure by hurting an Amazon employee, but regrettably, none live nearby.)

Good grief, man, it's always something with Amazon...I wonder how the big distributors handle all the little problems. There must be entire departments at publishing houses called Amazon Jigsaw Puzzling.

FFinally, I'm back! Thanks for that - I'll let you know when there's enough to be worth posting (already I can see faults with the narrative, but I'm ploughing on anyway)

That didn't work, did it? I forgot to clip out the thing I was replying to. I think it was on page 2 ...
Blame the hormones.

We get the gist, anyway -- we soon get to read more nifty Sue prose. "Cool," as we say in America!

"Faults" already? Young lady, yours is not the place to judge your own narrative during this most fun of all writing phases, the letting-the-stuff-out-to-begin-with phase. I gently suggest not being paranoid about an invisible reader peering over your shoulder; keep the channel open and let your forum friends shower you with compliments when it's done.



(Well, unless it sucks.)

"Cool", you say... So that's the new expression is it? I must remember that.

I do like to try and stay abreast of popular culture.



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"Cool" is the new "Spiffing", B.K.

Is it? Jolly go... er, I mean, "Cool"

Gosh, I quite like that one!

I prefer 'cool' to 'far out', myself...

Oh and by the way, if anyone on this fforum has actually used the word "spiffing" any time in the last 72 hours, you owe me a pound.

S'blood, you charge even more than I do! You could buy a country pub over here for that sort of money.

I'm in the mortgage business. We are greedy evil losers that are branching out these days and bringing down the market on a global scale, instead of just locally. We have to charge lots of money for that.

Wel, the last time "spiffing" was discussed around here it was in cunjunction with a complaint about "two kilos of coins which amounted to about a dollar fifty". That should make it possible to pay off one pound for no more than 38 cents.

And it was ten months ago, so nothing's owed, anyway.

Well, then, it's certainly a relief to hear that we haven't also arrogantly exported the thing called "interest."

Cool

I never imagined fiction written with the idea of using improvisation. Though William Burroughs "cut-up" style might approach it.

I'm a jazz musician and a reader. I read everything from trash to classics, and I listen and play many types of music, lots of jazz, plus punk, funk, rock, classical, reggae .... everything except rap and CW.

I've also read many jazz biographies. My favorite music bios, are Straight Life by Art Pepper (though I'm not a huge fan of his music), Triumph of the Underdog by Charles Mingus, Space is the Place about Sun Ra, Miles, and Zappa.

I've got to quote Frank Zappa here, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

***You think the jazz music scene is tough in the UK? Try making a career of it in Los Angeles.

Is St. Mark's still around? Great little jazz club right off Venice beach. The 'Pinky Carruthers' band from Buckaroo Banzai used to play there... I don't even know what they were really called. It was quite a few years ago, though.

heehee, I never thought of William Burroughs as being quite so Fluxus... Maybe I'll like him better than I thought I did...

Frigid.^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCool.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

St. Marks? Never heard of it.

Catalina's is still happening, though in a new place on Sunset, The Jazz Bakery in Culver City, and Steamers in Fullerton. Sometimes you'll hear an occasional jazz combo for the dinner crowd at an upscale restaurant..... Cafe 322 in Sierra Madre for instance.

Cutting edge jazz is mostly found in New York and Europe.

My little group landed a gig in a steakhouse in Long Beach. We were fired the first night. Too weird, too loud. Definitley NOT background music.

"Sorry, our customers don't want to be challenged. Don't you guys know Girl From Ipanema?"

Does your little group have some music that we can listen to? Inquiring minds want to know...