What you missed

Hey, John Updike! You died a year ago today, which was a colossal drag.

Here are some things you missed!

* We bought a house! Lots of room for books, which is nice. Your more esoteric, unlikely-to-be-readily perused stuff (The Coup, The Poorhouse Fair, eg) will likely end up in the basement, but you are well represented in the upstairs "fiction" room and your essays and such are in the front room. Oh, and the two art books!

* New Clientele record was fantastic!

* American society continues to unravel at a brisk clip; shame you're not here to sweep up the sawdust with some tartly observed (yet withal somehow reassuring) prose.

* Going to Jeffersonville on President's Day!

* Osama is still alive, but so is Obama! And no word has leaked from Cornish that Salinger is dead. Those 100-degree lamb patties must really work. If we'd only known, huh? :(

* But, anyway: you missed Kei$ha, so that is good.

Say hi to Lester Bangs, Cheever, et al...and join this blog as a follower, if you have internet access in the afterworld.

Okay, bye!