It’s a spoken word thing #2 (Pete Barbutti)
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- Wednesday 30th June 2010
(I imagine you’re wondering what the Grainger logo is doing here. And where is Pete Barbutti? Please be patient; all will be revealed in the fullness of time)
Last Saturday morning, I woke up to discover that our attic fan (known also as a whole-house fan) had ceased to work. I am not the most mechanically-inclined individual (pause here for raucous laughter offstage), but we don’t have a ton of money to piss away on the local fix-it guys unless it’s absolutely necessary. So I heaved my butt up into the stiflingly hot attic and made my way to the eaves in a sweaty, crouched shuffle to figure out what the problem was.
It’s a spoken word thing #1 (Boris Karloff)
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- Friday 25th June 2010
I’m sitting on a real treasury of spoken word recordings in all manner of formats, and I want to bring some of these to a wider audience than just me, sitting alone in the basement and grinning like a fool. Both my cassette players busted from age, and until I get a replacement for them, and until I get the CD’s sorted out and shelved, I’m culling from vinyl, just picking out some…
children's records, Howard Sackler, just so stories, karloff, kipling, reading, spoken word

