Friday February 29th --- again tech limbo

Another effort to bog today to regain that mad manic feeling of creative happiness. A conflict with the Bruce Boone talk tonight (just adjacent but not enough time to get there).

It will work out...Got resume paper to bring a hard copy to the event tomorrow. Picked my shirt and tie. A little polishing and ironing when I get home tonight.

Dinner with David last night. His boyfriend's bought a Chestnut Street clothing store and David is duly decked out in March Jacob looking a less plump and more prosperous self. And in good generous spirits which are contagious. Wonderful divvy Ethiopian food at Club Waziema, some literary gossip about the folks we know/knew in the SF experimental and/or gay writing scene.

I told David about my Next Narrative idea sprung out of writing about Steve Abbott. He suggested a book about New Narrative, perhaps an oral history.

I too have thought of this but manage to talk myself down out of infinite concerns including my ability to execute and the sheer time commitment of such an undertaking. And yet it gnaws at me. I imagine this is how Kevin got started with Spicer. Perhaps it might begin by writing what I know or think I know of the period and then identify the places where I can discoverer more information (people & archives) I think.

David is right when he says no matter how small it may have been or ephemeral the idea and the influence is still strongly felt and continues to reverberate through the writing scene.

I will begin with some notes on what I know and some inquiries to the people I know. And then this thing will or will not have a life of its own.