{"id":1727,"date":"2011-07-19T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2011-07-19T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:32:54","slug":"rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2011\/07\/19\/rock-and-roll.html","title":{"rendered":"rock and roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\ti briefly met up last night with my rock star friend from school. it was a nice meeting, not in the way i expected, but all good. he was in town back in March (i think) and he stayed at my place for a couple of nights. A and I went over to Brooklyn Bowl, in Williamsburg. a bowling alley\/concert hall. nice space. well-ventilated. everything overpriced and yupster beyond wildest imagineerings, as expected, but at least the air was clean. i&#8217;ve had the breathing problem thing the last week or 2, and i imagined that a concert venue might be full of moldy, stale air, filled with the aura-like residue from happy hipsters yupping it up at concerts past. nope. fresh and clean. whoot.<\/p>\n<p>some weeks ago i was woken up by the collapse of some book shelves. one by one the old magazines i collect and had recently shelved fell to the floor, the one by one pace steadily increasing, accelerating until 3 or 4 fell at a time, until dozens fell at once, the shelf collapsed and took the shelf beneath it down, and when i faced the day i found a swirl of books and magazines on the floor. there they sat, for weeks and weeks, until today when i found appropriately sized boxes in which to store the oversized old magazines. i think boxes will be a better way to store those old things, better than shelves. the magazines are just too flippin&#8217; heavy for safe storage on typical bookshelves, and they are surprisingly unwieldly when stored vertically. putting them in boxes should improve access and portability &#8212; or so the amateur archivist in me likes to believe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>i got a weird letter from the IRS today. 2 letters. they both say &#8220;REMINDER&#8221; and then say something about dad&#8217;s estate-related taxes about which i have no memory of receiving correspondence before&#8230; but i can be overwhelmed by correspondence at times, and even the most arch and declamatory letter from the IRS could slip under the radar. i don&#8217;t know if i missed something, or what happened, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to <br \/>\nbe unfixable or crucial or critical or antimatter or flipoutable. guess i need to find me a damn accountant. i should owe about $0, but the accountant will snap up hundreds of dollars for to fill out the appropriate single one-page tax form&#8212;- more evidence to support my theory that the economics of the financial industry and the American economy make no damn sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>i has nothing to says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i briefly met up last night with my rock star friend from school. it was a nice meeting, not in the way i expected, but all good. he was in town back in March (i think) and he stayed at my place for a couple of nights. 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