tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2990373524513366256..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Homage to Joe BrainardCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-85303627226272079992009-07-29T12:51:54.174-07:002009-07-29T12:51:54.174-07:00Loved TC's Stalin memory. The people of the S...Loved TC's Stalin memory. The people of the Soviet Union would like to have celebrated, too. Or at least some of them. I remember they showed a strange tape out of the DUMA in which Kruschev was heckled for having done nothing in Stalin's years. Kruschev yelled WHO SAID THAT? And no one answered.<br /><br />Then, Kruschev said, "And that's why I said nothing!"<br /><br />Soviet law was a travesty consisting largely of kangaroo courts.<br /><br />The poor elephants.<br /><br />I do remember something called jaw breakers, and catching lightning bugs.<br /><br />At any rate, I think you're about ten years older than I am, Curtis.<br /><br />Nice to remember all these things.<br /><br />I had dinner once with Joe Brainard at Kenward Elmslie's house in Greenwich Village, and Joe didn't say a word!<br /><br />Either did I!<br /><br />Steven Taylor was there, and Kenward, and I think Bobbie Jo Creeley. They were rehearsing for some musical.<br /><br />I remember they had a large cake!<br /><br />I didn't really know anybody there but was invited as a sometime correspondent of Kenward's. I thought he was a hoot. He's still alive.<br /><br />Isn't there something in Brainard's memories that is slightly farcical or something? Yours seemed a lot more to be just plain memories. there is a wink in his memories, if I remember correctly, like the one that said, <br /><br />"I don't remember ever having any sexual identity problems."<br /><br />I'm quoting from memory.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-38978165194345428522009-07-29T08:08:13.015-07:002009-07-29T08:08:13.015-07:00What I remember is that you could get the drugstor...What I remember is that you could get the drugstore guy to simply fill up your glass (or more often other larger receptacle) with what was called "coke syrup", and this was used as a "cough medicine" for kids. Though if the cough got really bad one had be moved up the severity ladder to paregoric, also available over the counter. I had rheumatic fever and whooping cough. It's all one long floating paregoric dream.<br /><br />I remember when Stalin died everybody in my grade (the boys that is) were into Davy Crockett hats. The nuns gave us a half day off school to celebrate the demise of the leader of our great national enemy the Soviet Union. Strange anachronistic reverie now to think of 75 wee Davy Crocketts dashing about the cobbled asphalt of the playground, fake foxtails flapping in the wind off the Plains, whooping it up over the death of Stalin; in retrospect weirdly parabolic, like much so called historical event.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-28554672592858450622009-07-29T07:59:18.934-07:002009-07-29T07:59:18.934-07:00the wind-shield wipers on your car are
a pair of ...the wind-shield wipers on your car are<br /><br />a pair of squeegees!<br /><br />and<br />no window-washer worth a <br />(...) would be without his squeegee:<br /><br /><br />Imagine every window in the Empire State building from the out-side on a scaffold without your soapy towel and squeegee?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:3_Window_Washers_-_Cleaning_the_Westlake_Center_Office_Tower.JPGEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-79583535010191137162009-07-29T06:41:04.831-07:002009-07-29T06:41:04.831-07:00I remember every single one of these, Curtis.
rem...I remember every single one of these, Curtis.<br /><br />remember when Coke had codeine as an ingredient and we used to take a couple of swallers to make room to dump in a little packet of Mr. Peanut (Planter's) salty peanuts..<br /><br /><br />remember The Automat?<br /><br /><br />I still have an "I like Ike" button... who I never liked or his VP!<br /><br />someone also did an<br /><br />"I met [..]" ruunnnn<br /><br /><br />I remember (when Eisenhower was president) and I was in elementary school we had to do Atomic Bomb get-under-the-desk drills.<br /><br />one time I said to Mrs Strawn .<br /><br />"we're 10 blocks from the U.S. Capital building.<br /><br />If "they" (the Ruskies) drop an Atomic Bomb on D.C. there will be a crater 2 miles deep and 100 miles radious. WHATthe hell good will this desk be?"<br /><br />Mrs. Strawn called my parents. My Grandmother<br /><br />went to the meeting.. me, her, Strawn, the Vice-Principle.<br /><br />well my Grandmother listened for awhile and then said to "them" "Y'all are Morons!" <br /><br />I remember the first time I ever heard the <br /><br />word "Moron" correctly and aptly used .<br /><br />etcEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-15322717419522501902009-07-29T03:57:19.053-07:002009-07-29T03:57:19.053-07:00Swell piece, Curtis.
"Squeegee", did th...Swell piece, Curtis.<br /><br />"Squeegee", did that word actually exist or are we dreaming it?<br /><br />(Were squeegees related to The Curiosity?)<br /><br />"Shrewd undercover agent from another world", nice.<br /><br />FYI, this bit on<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/brainards.html" rel="nofollow">Brainards</a><br /><br />has a nice and quite characteristic Joe line relayed by Tom Raworth in the comments box.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-40526788021628358532009-07-28T17:56:39.960-07:002009-07-28T17:56:39.960-07:00You're a little younger than I am, Kirby, so s...You're a little younger than I am, Kirby, so some of this stuff may pre-date you.<br /><br />Yeah, you put the peanuts--one in each nostril--of the elephant's trunk, and he sucked them up into his mouth. The elephant skin is a dark grey-graphite color, but it's bright pink just inside the nostrils. I was afraid of the trunk--it was really strong and flexible, like pure muscle. It's a great memory, though.<br /><br />Can you remember the candies you used to buy at the movie theatre?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-61678359669628687702009-07-28T17:37:09.118-07:002009-07-28T17:37:09.118-07:00Some of these I recognize better than others, espe...Some of these I recognize better than others, especially the last three.<br /><br />the one about the peanut shells and the nose holes was very disturbing. Did you mean the trunk?Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.com