After a long Christmas weekend when we didn't know what day it was - and we had been binge-eating on Christmas cookies and binge-watching WHITECHAPEL followed by SPOOKS - Monday morning has dawned and we are back to normal, whatever normal may be.
It has been a long Christmas tradition of ours not to buy each other any Christmas presents because neither of us really knows what the other really wants, so why bother, but Padma, on her last grocery shopping spree, had found herself inside K-Mart where she looked for a last-minute book present for me. Can you imagine buying any sort of meaningful book at K-Mart? Anyway, amongst all that dross she found Anthony Hopkins' "We did Ok, Kid" and "The Endless Sky" by Di Morrissey.
Not wanting to offend her, I made an effort to at least find out on the double-double-double-u who Di Morissey is, but got sidetracked by one of those algorithm-generated advertisement in the margins which displayed the book "Steaming to Bamboola". How does AI know more about my reading preferences than my own wife? Anyway, I'm caught!
The good thing about books published as long ago as 1952 is that you can find them on www.archive.org where I have since started reading Christopher Buckley's book - if only to "test-drive" it prior to placing my order on ebay - and I've also found the above interview with Peter Robinson. What a beautiful camaraderie between two longtime friends! And only minutes into the YouTube clip, I have already learned what a 'knish' is and also the meaning of 'Bamboola'. Di Morissey can wait!
