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D,
I admit when you first emailed me about this show, and its title, and all those ideas buzzing around in your head, I felt like I should figure it out. I rolled my desk chair over to the ol’ corkboard and started sticking the colored pins in. Exhibit A: Fawn Hall. Exhibit B: “Appetite for Destruction.” Exhibit C: Dionysus.
This made me a little nervous because isn’t it always annoying when writers — or artists for that matter — mistake themselves for detectives? All clever-clever. No, let’s not.
Instead I’m thinking of you now, Dirk. I’m thinking: is it really possible that the first time I saw you, up on Hillside on orientation day, you were dressed like a mechanic (I believe they call it a “speedsuit” or was it overalls?), leaning against a doorway, a toothpick hanging from your mouth? Am I only imagining?
I’ll continue imagining. My brother used to watch this reality show called American Pickers. In it, these two antiquarians drove around the country visiting sheds, storage units,…
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D,
I admit when you first emailed me about this show, and its title, and all those ideas buzzing around in your head, I felt like I should figure it out. I rolled my desk chair over to the ol’ corkboard and started sticking the colored pins in. Exhibit A: Fawn Hall. Exhibit B: “Appetite for Destruction.” Exhibit C: Dionysus.
This made me a little nervous because isn’t it always annoying when writers — or artists for that matter — mistake themselves for detectives? All clever-clever. No, let’s not.
Instead I’m thinking of you now, Dirk. I’m thinking: is it really possible that the first time I saw you, up on Hillside on orientation day, you were dressed like a mechanic (I believe they call it a “speedsuit” or was it overalls?), leaning against a doorway, a toothpick hanging from your mouth? Am I only imagining?
I’ll continue imagining. My brother used to watch this reality show called American Pickers. In it, these two antiquarians drove around the country visiting sheds, storage units,…






































































