Sasuly // it just goes to show you...

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Ya Sam 
> Thanks everybody for your recommendations.
> 
> Pynchon expands my horizons, as usual. It's a pity they don't republish 
> that Sasuly book (used costs 90 $), I watched a documentary about the Nazi > trial in Frankfurt and they kept mentioning IG Farben, so I was in a mood 
> of some historical exploration. 
> Sometimes, mere google and wikipedia aren't enough.
> 

true that!  Nothing quite like owning the book.
  I also have been coveting the Sasuly book.  Maybe someday...
(till then, it occurs to me that interlibrary loan could 
get me a look at it - good summer reading...)


Btw, the Zappa album that Keith is copping his post titles from
is really pretty classic: "Just another Band from LA"

true, Pynchon never has yet blurbed it... but there are
a number of irresistible singalongs on there...
humming these things reminds me of the
roommate I had in 1974 who was way crazier than me and who
quit school to drive a cab, brought his buddies over to do bong
hits all night and blast that music...he had a really good stereo too...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_the_Mountain 

(Pynchon may have borrowed some plot elements, or vice versa)

and...who could forget "Eddie are you kidding"?

Howard: No, my friends, I'm not kidding, right here on the miracle 
mile we have the west's largest selections of . . .

Portly,
Regular,
Cadet,
Tall,
And long

Howard: And not only that- My brother Jake and Little Emil, and . . .

Sixty tailors! 

http://www.seeklyrics.com/album/Frank-Zappa/Just-Another-Band-From-L-A.html