For FZ’s 77th birthday, let us hie back unto the legendary Centerville Recreational Facility. When did I first learn that Jeff was stealing the towels?
It was a magickal spring in NoVa, 1988 it may have been, and a chance walk-in at a strip-mall budget bookstore. Yes, it was there that (of course) I riffled through a shoebox of cassette tapes (one bearing the inscription “To Bebe w/ love—Dick”) when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a double-long cassette of the 200 Motels soundtrack. I don’t say that my girlfriend at the time didn’t think I was crazy; but then, there are reasons she ain’t my girlfriend no more.
Could this have been the first I was aware of Theodore Bikel? Very probably, very probably. And now, one more benediction for the world.
Day 9, “Strictly Genteel” (from 200 Motels)
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