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Newtown, Pennsylvania is a very nice place to be spending my Friday. The company I'm working at is a pleasant, informal place; I just got some positive feedback for a good catch in a job (I queried why a D.C. hotel would have a "Capital" ballroom); the weather is gorgeous. I took a walk down the main street earlier, when buying lunch; there's a store called "The Giving Tree", which pleases me. Also, there's a very good used books/music store; I bought the U2 greatest hits CD that has "All I Want is You" on it, (thanks,

oceanic!) and found, to my delight, a copy of Lloyd Alexander's Time Cat, which I've not read in over twenty-five years. (I also found a tie-in book to Alex Cox's film Walker- must order the Joe Strummer soundtrack album- and all three volumes of Danny Peary's Cult Movies series, which also delighted me.)

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Because there must be venture capitalists in the nation's Capitol!

(Well, I amused myself, at least!)

Hi :)

Newtown is a nice little town. :)

Good catch!

That's one of the Strummer albums I don't have yet, but I have a lot of his other work. His version of "Minstrel Boy" from _Black Hawk Down_ (which I haven't and won't see because it would hurt too much) - I heard it shortly after his death for the first time, and it made me sob my guts out.

I don't know why, but I've had Joe Strummer on the brain lately; I keep vacillating as to whether the Clash's never having reformed was a good thing or not. (I think that they could have had a great deal to validly say about the last several years; that said, if they'd become a Sex Pistols-style oldies act, I would probably have thrown myself to the fire ants.)

Also, I'm utterly embarrassed as to how many times I'd seen Grosse Pointe Blank, before I realized who scored it. (The assassination during the opening credits *does* tend to distract me, as such things will do.)

Also also, there's a Joe Strummer mural on 7th and A; highly recommended, should you ever make it out this way.

* waves from nearby Philadelphia *

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