tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post3039002386848300418..comments2024-03-28T12:10:31.018-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: Corduroy Velveteen VelvetDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-34315857990247308432020-09-27T12:40:54.234-04:002020-09-27T12:40:54.234-04:00Did Thomas Pynchon write anything for Boeing when...Did Thomas Pynchon write anything for Boeing when he worked for them, I wonder?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-38724383970275421032020-09-27T06:28:44.992-04:002020-09-27T06:28:44.992-04:00And now I simply have to go and stroke some (piled...And now I simply have to go and stroke some (piled velvet, that is.) Mind you, the volume cited here is hardly the first collectable work to mention the subject. How wonderful if one could but turn up a first edition (pretty rare, I'm told) of that dramatic opus "Measure for Measure":<br />"And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou’rt<br />a three-piled piece, I warrant Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07646697617439755046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-5250077473095418042020-09-26T17:07:10.613-04:002020-09-26T17:07:10.613-04:00Hidden careers are fun Neil Tennant of The Pet Sho...Hidden careers are fun Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys edited the Dairy Book of Home Management which you could buy off your milkman and was to be found in many homes in the early 1980s (he also edited Marvel Comics in the UK)<br />Ozzy Osbourne tuned car horns.ian hollowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185795270490170583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-73469162434856784992020-09-26T17:05:10.249-04:002020-09-26T17:05:10.249-04:00I'm just off to Portmeirion, home of The Priso...I'm just off to Portmeirion, home of The Prisoner, on Monday. That pamphlet will probably become collectable with fans now, Mark.Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.com