Update

Update:

4:42:53 into Assassination Vacation. The death of President James Garfield, the Republican from Ohio whose first term was cut down to a meager 199 days by a bullet from a man named Charles Guiteau, arguably creator of the first Garfield Minus Garfield. Incidentally, Garfield's voice has an odd and unmistakable hint of New Jersey Jew to it.

Going on a bike ride tonight with a disreputable gentleman (though he refers to himself as a libidinous profligate). Til then, I'm eating Rainier cherries and doing laundry. And finally stretching that goddamn canvas.