JACK TEAGARDEN
He is a real person, who played with Glenn Miller. I don't know anything about him, but I can prove it. Wait a minute.
Listening to: '20 - Somebody Loves Me' from 'B.G. & Big Tea in NYC' by 'Benny Goodman & Jack Teagarden' on Media Jukebox
Do you see?
OK, trashbag, you can go to sleep and dream about rabbits now.
I have been reading for about half an hour every night this last week in the garden. Last summer, no maybe the summer before, or the one before that, I read a big thick book of Jack Kerouac's letters. Each night in the garden I read a few pages. Nothing strenuous, you understand, but enough to get a lift. It didn't take much.
One night I forgot the book and it rained. The book was swollen twice its normal size. Trash, I thought? No, dry it out and continue.
I finished, saying to friends (both of them) that I would bury it in the garden when I finished. I think I did.
So now, I'm reading Carolyn Cassidy, writing about Neal Cassidy, her husband, who was Jack Kerouac's pal, the one called Dean Moriarity in the book called "On the Road". Good book. Remind you of anything? bookontherun.com?
Carolyn describes in nice detail how Neal introduced her to Tea. It made me laugh. See? There is a point?
And thanks for your "Book of 0/o".