Tea with TP

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Last night between the hours of say 2am and gehenna, I somehow had TP 
over for tea with the folks on their Long Island estate consisting of  a 
backyard, redwood picnic setting, Suffolk County ways, my mom freely 
dispensing wine and potato croquets, Chrissie arrived first, I expectant 
over finally meeting the man, but my first glimpse is not him, but his 
Topps playing card, outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles (think of a real 
skinny Boog Powell), with the moniker "Thomas Pynchomania".  I had to ask 
him later, he was shockingly blond like some Patrick Swayze surfer dude, 
how did he change his name, and how good was he hittin that breaking 
pitch.  Well, my sis was there and we commented to each other how well 
the folks got on with TP and Chrissie, as I said to my sis, them being so 
liberal, and his kids running around too, making mischief but strangely 
well-behaved.  Just a nice bucolic Sunday afternoon shootin breeze 
between old friends. 

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
212-807-2417
rromeo at fdncenter.org