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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Spending time in front of the micro-vision

May 12, 2008 – 4:27 pm

(Not that micro-vision)
I decided to start fixing up the parlor the other day, as I’ve really had an itch to clear a proper space for some wall hangings. Before starting work on the mold and rotting wood, though, I wanted to play a little work music (or eine kleine werkmusik, as Mozart might call it) [...]

By Count Leo Tolstoy | Posted in dvořák, eine kleine werkmusik, fixer-upper, microwave television, mozart, ohrwurms, parlor, wagner | Comments (0)

Ghosts? Please Believe It

May 9, 2008 – 8:46 pm

Well Tyrone Shoelaces was plumb dumbfounded by the coincidence of literally stumbling into a resident parapsychologist just moments after a possible ghost-sighting. I’d read about such anomalous coincidences in my Charles Fort books, but an anomalous coincidence involving an anomalous doctor? That’s double-Fortean if you ask The ‘Laces. Anyway, Dr. Duke McBaron, though unusually small [...]

By Tyrone Shoelaces | Posted in Dr. Duke McBaron, Tyrone's bedroom, Tyrone's record collection, funk, ghosts, new friends, parapsychology, sammy stephens | Comments (0)

We Got Ghosts

May 8, 2008 – 3:14 pm

Yep, no fooling. Beset by a melancholy funk following my bout of Sammy Stephens-induced introspection (The Count offered comfort in the form of an old painting from his trunk, but it was small solace in my current state; I told him I thought it was a little too “Precious Moments,” which I now regret), The [...]

By Tyrone Shoelaces | Posted in Dr. Duke McBaron, Tyrone's tape collection, ghosts, oven, parapsychology, sammy stephens | Comments (0)

Something nice to decorate the parlor with

May 7, 2008 – 2:20 pm

I’m just back from Christie’s, where I attended the sale of Impressionist and Modern art in the hopes of picking up something nice to spruce up the parlor. I’m a bit ashamed to say I was caught up in the enthusiasm over the big-ticket Monet painting, ‘The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil,’ and bid past my [...]

By Count Leo Tolstoy | Posted in art, christie's, claude monet, fixer-upper, parlor, precious moments, unpacking, walter langley, winky-dinky | Comments (0)