Here’s the problem. I’m PC. Windows XP, which may or may not be the explanation, but whenever I unplug an external component from one of my USB ports (which I have to do every day), the computer responds with a musicalized version of a tool falling to the ground. That’s fine. What’s not fine is that note-wise, this sound is a quarter-note interval of a fifth (G down to C, for instance), reminding me EVERY SINGLE TIME I UNHOOK MY HARDDRIVE of the first two notes of “You’re My Best Girl” from MAME, which is not a musical I really know that well, or like all that much. Even worse, it puts me in mind of a late vintage Lucille Ball, singing, which is not a good thing. Or Rosalind Russell, for whom I never found a warm spot. Point is, I don’t want to have that song, or those women, looping in my head every g*dd*mned moment of every g*dd*mned day, but I do and it has to stop.
I guess what I’m saying is, I need to open my control panel.
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- Brooks Hansen
- Born in NYC in 1965, Brooks Hansen is a fiction writer, screenwriter, essayist, speaker, and teacher. Known principally for his historical fiction, he has authored nine titles to date, including The Monsters of St. Helena, Perlman’s Ordeal, Boone and The Chess Garden, all of which were New York Times Notable Books. The Chess Garden was also a PW Best Book of the Year selection. He has written two novels for Young Readers, Caesar’s Antlers, and Beastie, both of which he illustrated. In 2009, he released a memoir, The Brotherhood of Joseph, and in 2005 received a Guggenheim Fellowship for John the Baptizer, which was published in 2009 by Norton. Shorter pieces have appeared in the anthologies Central Park (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The Good Book (S&S, 2015), as well as in The Times Book Review, Grand Street, and Bookforum. In 2016, he started his own imprint, Star Pine Books, to field his own backlist and newer titles such as Beastie (2015) and Asmodeus (2016). In 2021, His latest novel, The Unknown Woman of the Seine (Delphinium, 2021) was tapped by the NY Times as one of the best historical novels of the year. He now lives and teaches in Carpinteria, CA.
John the Baptizer (2009)
The Brotherhood of Joseph (2008)
The Monsters of St. Helena (2003)
Perlman's Ordeal (1999)
Caesar's Antlers (1997)
The Chess Garden (1995)
Boone (1990)
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