My Life as an Auto-Reverse Tape Deck
posted at 12:09 am
on Nov. 16, 2007
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Did you ever own an auto-reverse Walkman? Or even a double tape deck with auto-reverse, so you could put in two tapes and dub them, or have them loop back and forth, with TWO albums, not just one, so you didn’t have to get up and switch the tape deck. 120 minutes of uninterrupted music, other than that long pause and large clack in the middle. Ah, yes, it was a golden time.
Well, if you did have one of those bad boys, did you ever press and hold down the stop and play button at the same time, maybe when you were trying to press play and record to tape something? Or the pause and fast forward just because you wanted to see which would win? And you’d get that rapid-fire click-click-clicking of plastic gears in pain?
Yeah, that’s how I feel. I’m on fast forward, doing a zillion things this week, and yet I’m not really getting anything done. Pause. Well, lots of work things, but nothing non-work related.
Susie’s out of town at a knitting… retreat? meetup? seminar? It’s really just a wonderful chance to get together and do the yarn thing with people who are as knitting-obsessed as she is. Which is totally cool, I’m really happy for her.
Meanwhile, I did squeeze in one outing this week: Adrian Tomine, a cartoonist that was doing a speaking / signing at Sophia Books downtown, where I got a comic book signed. It wasn’t my comic book, it was Matt’s, and it wasn’t my idea, it was Siobhan’s.
Anyway, that’s all I have today, but a quick shoutout to Debbie for getting me off my blogging pause. Click click click.
