I am beginning to wonder the quality of my writing style. Is it tedious to read? Does it lack detail? Is there too much information? Were there some really good posts? Do these drive you nuts? Let me know if you must by email at casey@caseyburnsflutes.com
I love Steinbeck’s writing style, and especially his Cannery Row novels (including a few short stories such as The Snake which I want to turn into an opera). My dear friend echinoderm expert Rich Mooi at CAS and I have decades of correspondence that is rife with Steinbeckian twists and turns and puns, so its not like I have done some of this without practice. As to the story content I am in awe of the Greats such as my dear friends Kevin Carr (see kevincarr.org), Kevin Crawford (who we all know is channeling all of these stories out of the mind of Cillian Vallely like some Star Trekian symbiont or parasite), Claudette Boudreaux who tells the best Cajun Cinderella ever, Brian Steeger who I will not mention because he never calls me back, and of course my wife Nancy who remembers everything.
I found what I was looking for yesterday. Apparently the Republicans are already calling the Omicron Variant a Democratic Hoax so that voting will be driven to entirely mail-in voting and we all know that such voting results in a phenomenon called “Voter Fraud”, a process in which Republicans lose the election because everyone despises them because they are flaming dickheads. Pardon my language.
This mornings tasks include a covid test, eating food without fiber, getting liquid nutrition for all day tomorrow. I am about to finish a letter requesting gifts of money with no strings attached to send to some of my flute clients. I’ll try them first. Some screws are loose so I will spend the day finding them. These are the ones for the Eb key on a friend’s original Laurent.
My birthday lasts all week, and the greetings arrive such as this one from Francy and Edmond in Switzerland.
There was a great interview with the owner of Substack on APR’s Marketplace this afternoon:
https://www.marketplace.org/2021/11/30/substack-ceo-chris-best-does-not-want-to-tell-you-what-to-read/
I’ll be back Friday. I’ll be drinking liquids tomorrow and will be on drugs Thursday.