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This morning, being Sunday, began with KPFA’s increasingly befuddled Mary Berg at the controls. These days, her early morning Bach show feature lengthy silences (she might be catching up on sleep) punctuated by a squeaky office chair and then Mary sayng “What?!–?” to someone in the studio… (“hey! Mary! Wake up!) We love the fact that it’s OK to have a true “eminence grise” on the airwaves, and dread her inevitable absence. Since ALL the DJ’s are volunteer it’s unlikely she’ll be fired. Plus, she has a decent base of rabid, septuagenarian listeners.
CC always turns on the radio in the house if the show is a good one, and this one had enough cantatas to drag His Shyness out from the treehouse into the quite warm thanks to the spaceship insulation hovel. Even after breakfast, Charlie lingered*, sweeping all the wood-chips and houseflith with the broom we brought home from Toad Hall. It’s a Quinn kitchenette, a seemingly hand-made job from Illinois. Chances are, Carol Cunningham used this same kind of broom as a child and re-discovered it recently (I’d never seen it at the Hall–it was pulled from a deep recess in kitchen pantry). There is a leather cuff where the corn straw joins the wooden handle, and since Charlie was marveling audibly about the absence of dustophilic static electricity, plastic bristle brooms all have it, I thought I’d google ’em.
Hence this perfunctory blog qua fan note, since compliments from this guy don’t tumble out very often.

*it being cold in the shop, any excuse not to go in and face 48-degree metal tools.

~ by jacquiephelan on November 24, 2013.

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Tags: Charlie Cunningham, Kitchenette, Mary Berg, Quinn broom, tool