jerusalema!

this made a lot of people happy during the covid lockdowns --- still does

   

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/africa/jerusalema-nomcebo-zikode-south-africa.html?smid=url-share

coochee redux

i have not appreciated the value of a literary agent until this coochee project — that was sorta built into NPS projects — i don't know what they paid her, but I don't think I could've/would've plowed through all the forms and permissions and what not that she has, which are just about done — left to my devices, it would have wound up in three-ring binders from kinkos — the narrative has survived relatively unscathed, i'm glad to say, but the fact that it is going to see print at all is to her and SNCA's credit entirely —