IVIV (11) opening talk

[Michael Bailey]

Welcome, Clement!  Thanks for the insights on this un-musical chapter.

I have a few hen's teeth, er, responses to host comments...


>>
>> In chapter 10, interviewing a pimp named Jason Velveeta
>> (did anybody notice velvet painting mentioned earlier in the
>> novel, p. 6, on the streets, on sunday mornings?

you're right - Velveeta probably was chosen as name for the
cheese-food for its velvety sound.
That never occurred to me before.  But that links him with the velvet
paintings, an icon of the streets.

I keep picturing Huggy Bear
 http://www.style-b-cinema.com/sitebuilder/images/Antonio_Fargas_Huggy_Bear-217x273.jpg

>>. In chapter 11, Doc
>> will remember a place where he went to "score" and he will
>> try to go there again for a strange reason. But this is the
>> place he will find the office of Golden Fang Enterprise!
>> aren't we on something great?
>>

pretty great, in its own way

>> As he heard about Sledge Poteet, an ex-client, in chapter
>> 1, p. 15, he will actually meet in chapter 11 Japonica
>> Fenway, a girl he looked for on his "first paying gig as a
>> licensed private eye".

he's building that network, slowly, slowly...