This story made me pull over on December 24, 2003 so I could listen fully. I wrote Robert Siegel and he was nice enough to write back, a very personal and personable response, musing about Beethoven and suggesting another favorite of his that I might listen to.
I think of that night and how this thirteen minutes opened up a new world to me and from time to time I look up the archived radio show and do it all again.
There was a lot going on overhead today.
Read tonight about this woman who rode around a Florida Walmart on one of those motorized carts, eating sushi and chicken and waving around and drinking a bottle of wine. Took awhile for a guard to stop her.
Apparently there are problems with people involved in meth labs running into Florida Walmarts for a quick nosh or something. You know, Florida and all.
Anyway, Virginia challenged me to write haiku on the subject:
I’m eating sushi
and drinking wine while driving
around in WalmartThird lap ’round Walmart
Guard saw me eating chicken
and drinking their wine.Cuisine du Walmart:
sushi and deli chicken
with really cheap wine.
The sun will set without thy assistance.
