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greygirlbeast

Bring Back Busy Signals

Aug 19, 2018 11:53

It was a little sunny a short while ago, but it's overcast now, as it was when I woke about 9 a.m. Currently, it's only 79˚F, with the heat index at 82˚F. There was rain in the night, I think.

Yesterday, I proofread the galleys for The Chartreuse Alphabet, which will the chapbook accompanying the limited edition of The Dinosaur TouristAt 5 p.m., ( Read more... )

documentaries, subterranean press, good movies, surin west, change, thai, chapbooks, five points, jules, 1977, 2002, ken burns, 1978, proofreading, the chartreuse alphabet, charlemagne records, the dinosaur tourist

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sirena73 August 19 2018, 21:14:39 UTC

Re: busy signals. I was having a conversation with a friend recently about sounds that "kids these days" don't know, or we're getting too old for this world, something like that. I noted that the sound of a telephone busy signal and the particular clink of a glass bottle coming out of a vending machine are endangered if not extinct. The whoosh of a vacuum tube delivering something in an office building - used to love those, too.

The Museum of Extinct Sounds.