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  • More Raymond Chandler Evenings

    Another storm, this one with hail, and some more Raymond Chandler thoughts as I listen to Robyn Hitchcock play “Yesterday’s Rain” in an online concert. We’ve been watching Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Altman’s The Long Goodbye this week. It’s a deliberately paced work with oodles of groovy atmosphere, transposed, as it is, to…

  • This Could Be the Day

    Photo: Robyn Hitchcock; used under a CC license I’m writing a book. Technically, two books. Piece of cake. “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.” George Orwell I love this, because my writing and my chronic illnesses are closely linked, including both taking place largely in…

  • Raymond Chandler Evening

    Last night was stormy, with rare rumbles of thunder and flashes of lightning. Appropriately, I was listening to “Raymond Chandler Evening” in a live-stream concert by Robyn Hitchcock: It’s a Raymond Chandler EveningAnd the pavements are all wetAnd I’m lurking in the shadows‘Cause it hasn’t happened yet That took me to the BBC radio adaptations…