Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for May 24, 2020
May 23, 2020
May 25, 2020
Transcript:
literary calendar monday 7 p.m. alicia sloe-lorris initials "the tiny book of twee bromides by the cash register." vapid books & such. 7 p.m. duane "li'l tom" hooper, t.s. eliot impersonator, reads "the waste land" with a pissy, supercilious look on his face then blows up when somebody asks him to sing selections from "cats." bogus bookshoppe. wednesday 7 p.m. former president bill clinton discusses "what is is! my life since the last book." back-slapping, hand-holding, panty-raid & hugfest to follow. barnes & noble at bypass plaza. 7 p.m. microsoft's bill gates reads from "my america, mine, mine, mine - a vision for the future" at books-a-billion. saturday 1 p.m. activist-perform-ance poet m'bolo stupak podgorny reads from "steal this book & heave it through a plate glass window." workshop to follow. pulpitation bookstore. 7 p.m. an infinite num-ber of chimpanzees discuss their multi-volume "treasury of western literature with no typos" at the museum of na-tural history. nit picking to follow.
gbars70 over 4 years ago
Bill had to turn it all over to Bezos.
well-i-never over 4 years ago
If only we had a Vapid Books and Such in our town. I got a tiny book of twee for a birthday once, but it came from a drug store I think.
DCBakerEsq over 4 years ago
‘Monkey Typos’ would be a good name for a band.
Spiffy over 4 years ago
Thanks to today’s Cul De Sac, I know how Alicia got her name!
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
I don’t care what Duane Hooper says: I still like the poems of T.S. Eliot—all of them!