We pause in our narrative to discuss a once and future topic. Once and future because ...

(We pause in our narrative to discuss a once and future topic. Once and future because it supplies background information to all the works of Quin, and because it will be the next great thingamagig ...) We pause in our narrative to discuss a once and future topic. Once and future because it supplies background information to all the works of Quin, and because it will be the next great thingamagig in the series of performance art which is and has been his life. This next great thingamagig is and will be: The dada hootenanny. Readers are probably all already aha-ing on this holy of holy days--the culmination to the great holidays of consumption--when all have completed the required religious rituals of feasting, purchasing gizmos and gadgets in profusion, holding tight to old resentments in their hearts while watching loved ones' disappointed faces as they fight bitterly with the plastic packaging to get at the gizmos, and finally, with relief, anticipating the homeward journey inside some hugely large and heavy gadget, gizmo, or thingamagug, so that they may behold the faces of loved ones no more. The dada hottenanny has something to do with gizmos and thingamagigs, and here is ...

16:14:01 December 25, 2003, Thursday (PST) Source: Quin Withey's Radio Weblog

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