What's the band in this story?
Paul Mackin
pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jul 26 15:01:10 CDT 2000
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, MichaelB wrote:
>
> I saw Thomas Pynchon the other the night. I did. I was walking
> fairly late out on Venice Beach. It was cloudy, nobody was around.
> When suddenly the clouds, near the horizon, began to brighten. And
> then swirl. And then spiral down and open, agape, like an elephant's
> trunk. And indeed there was a loud shrieking, a horn, a trumpet
> blast and from the trunk slid an alien space pod. It landed where
> the water licked the shore. Blue, red, yellow lights. Some smoke.
> The pod sort of belched and Pynchon walked out. He was carrying a
> bottle of beer.
Was there a full moon by any chance and did you happen to be on a
grunion hunt? The night shadows and sea sounds play strange tricks while
one awaits the tiny creature's silent running.
P.
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