Okay. I decluttered a lamp. It's in the bag for Goodwill. And sold a repro black powder pistol yesterday.

But then I got to the Press Room session. Not long after I got there, Chris Vaughan came in the back door and tugged at my sleeve -- "There's a bunch of posters in the trash out there..."

So I went to look. Evidently someone decided to clean out Jay Smith's (founding owner of The Press Room; sold the pub in 1996) entertainer files from the '80s. They were out back in a plastic box and wet from last night's rain. Not too wet. But I went through them and salvaged everything that had meaning for me -- press kits, posters, publicity photos. A treasure trove as far as my archives are concerned -- people that I had seen at The Press Room in the early '80s but didn't have a date on my calenders for. Walking On Air, Trapezoid, Bill Morrissey, Sammie Haynes (now married to Cormac McCarthy), Jane Rothfield and Alan Carr, Taylor Whiteside, Richard Johnson, Kenny Girard, John Roberts and Tony Barrand, Rick and Lorraine (now married to Bennett Hammond) Lee, Jim Ringer and Mary McCaslin, etcet etcet...

Wow!

Guess I'd better de-accession some more stuff to make room. (Actually, it's not that thick a stack.)

Gotta go eat pizza...

Linn