Just cruising around the internet this morning after having been keyed in on what was arguably the "first" alternative newspaper in Greenwich Village, The Villlage Voice, co-founded by Norman Mailer. I located an obituary of Mailer, written by Jerry Tallmer. The snow continues to descend on us here on the upper Plains, but it's the vertical rather than the horizontal stuff this time. Good coffee drinking weather for sure.
Excerpt of the lively dialog in the newsroom of The Village Voice (circa 1956). For some reason it kind of reminded me of FCP:
I [Jerry Tallmer] came into the office — there was no one else there — as the telephone was ringing.
I picked it up. A raging voice — Mailer’s voice — said: “Tallmer, you schmuck, why don’t you take your thumb out of your asshole? It’s ‘nuance … nuance,’ not ‘nuisance.’ ”
I said: “Norman, don’t talk to me like that,” and hung up, still body-weary and half-asleep, not having the least idea what the hell he was talking about.
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