I�ve started reading the new Lester Bangs collection. If you�ve received an e-mail from me within the last two days, you�ve probably already deduced that yourself. I have a really bad habit of picking up some of Lester�s stylistic tics whenever I read him. It�s kinda like when I�m talking with someone who�s got a regional accent and I unconsciously start using an approximation of their dialect myself. It�s not that I�m mocking them; I think it�s more that I�m entranced by the way they speak, so I�m just sorta trying it on for size. Maybe you�ve experienced something similar.
Anyway, I�m sorry if I was unable to resist the siren�s song of pseudo-Bangspeak. I�ll try to keep it out of TBGH as much as possible. And I will probably, at some point, write something or other about the man himself, or his writings, or a combination thereof. In the meantime, I�m gonna go wallow in Lesterland. bmarkey 8/14/2003 10:04:00 PM