The Blog is to literature what the high colonic is to bodily health. Sometimes a good purge is all that is required to bring the sun out from behind the clouds, so that all is serene once more. Damn, that last one felt good! (Though, like a successful irrigation, it is likely to provide less delight to the bystander than to the patient.) I am finally at peace regarding the matter of the Children's Television Sweatshop and all parties connected thereto. I no longer feel guilty about refusing to climb eight flights of stairs to be bullied by CTS brass. (I really DID used to ascend four stories to be lorded over by this public-access Tartikoff, this little-league Silverman--a hundred pounds ago. At my current weight, I have no taste for such martyrdom.)

I just bought three more typewriters. (A Remington #16, an Oliver #5, and a double-keyboard, front stroke Smith Premier #10.) I have been searching also for remaindered copies of "Skidding Into Insolvency: The Fun With Ramen Cookbook"--to absolutely no avail.