Yes, Fantasy Records bought Kicking Mule Records a long tome ago. Both of my LPs from the 1970s were on Kicking Mule. Fantasy is just sitting on them--like some bastard is doing with Nic Jones' older albums. Now, I know many records go platinum or gold all the time, but last night I had a bizarre dream. I dreamed that the album I called "Art Thieme--OUTRIGHT BOLDFACED LIES", of which I still have 2 copies on vinyl, had actually begun to rust and turned shades of that pukey red color we all know and love from the times the rust moths attacked our favorite old automobiles. When I awoke, I saw the flakes of red have broken through the LP covers for real. Many have sprinkled themselves profusely on our floor.

Gold and platinum happening to a recording, they say, is an honor.

A query: Is going rust an honor too---even if it only means I have survived long enough for it to happen???!??! I never knew that plastic could oxidize. What gives?

Tonight I'm planning on dreaming that someone has actually made a bootleg of the damn record!!---What goes around, comes around, I suppose!!

Art