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Lightbulbs, But No New Ideas

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 11, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

When I flipped on the bathroom light switch at 5:30 on Wednesday morning, I heard the tiniest tink above me, and found myself standing in darkness. For some reason I continued standing there, flipping the switch a few more times, you know, just to make sure. Then I slowly headed for the kitchen. No fucking
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Barney Rosset Turns 80

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 11, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Back in 1951, a then 29-year-old Barney Rosset bought a small publishing concern on Grove St. By the end of that decade, he had firmly established himself as one of the most important and influential men, not only in American publishing, but in terms of American culture as well. He introduced American readers to Beckett,
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Laundry List of Bad Ideas

Written by Jim Knipfel on June 4, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

When you’ve been at this sort of business for as long as I have (I just worked it out–I’ve now spent approximately 42 percent of my life writing these stories every single goddamn week), sometimes the brain can run dry for a while. You hit a stumbling block. Sometimes a big one. This is particularly
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Trying to Be Streetwise

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 21, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Having spent the entirety of my conscious life in Northeastern Wisconsin, I was nothing close to streetwise by the time I’d reached 18. I’d read a lot of books, though, and seen a lot of movies, and listened to a bunch of records. Enough to know that streetwise was what I wanted to be. n
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Shear Madness

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 21, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

You think "sheep," you think "pastoral," you think "gentle"–you usually don’t think "barked obscenities" and "shrieks of terror, pain and frustration." You don’t think "elbow in the spine." Yet at the Prospect Park Zoo’s Fleece Festival, that’s pretty much what you ended up with. It wasn’t the zoo’s fault, certainly. They had all the best
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The Deadly Power of Gibberish

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 14, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It was dark in the room when my eyes slid open. That was no surprise–it was always dark out when I got up. The alarm hadn’t gone off yet, but I felt good and refreshed. I’d slept hard and no longer remembered what nightmares may have plagued me. I had a cat curled up on
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My Cold-Water Flat

Written by Jim Knipfel on May 7, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

The plumbing situation in my apartment has always been a little on the what-you’d-call iffy side. I didn’t realize it at first. Everything was just fine for the first several months after I moved in. When that first impenetrable clog hit the kitchen sink, though, that’s when I found out that things weren’t exactly as
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Pranks I Only Watched

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 30, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

They were simpler days, back when amusement came fast and cheap, back when people trusted one another. Enough to talk to them on the telephone, anyway. There were fewer worries in general, if you were a teenager. Oh sure, we might’ve been under the impression that we were on the brink of a nuclear war
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Never Get Out of the Boat 2

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

It had happened every morning for the past week, so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. At some point between 3 and 4 a.m., my big, retarded cat, who had been sleeping comfortably next to my head, would awake with some sort of tremendous weed up his ass. He’ll then trot down to my
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What the Sun Can Do!

Written by Jim Knipfel on April 23, 2002. Posted in Miscellaneous, Posts

Perhaps it had something to do with all that direct sunlight, or the time shift, or the first decidedly warm day of the season–but whatever it was last Monday, it was instilling New Yorkers with some kind of collective madness. It wasn’t the good kind, either–it was the savage, nasty, ugly kind, which transformed the
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