Word: banjo
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Usually it's the kids who jump up from the table before the meal is finished. Here the meal runs out the door before little Banjo can eat it, followed by the silverware, plate, table and chair, Banjo and others. As with all runaways, some of the foods in Ahlberg's zany narrative come to a bad end (i.e., get eaten); others take up new lives. Will everything turn out well as Banjo returns home and sits down to his plum-pie dessert--or is it footloose...
...lives in a small house in Connecticut that when I visit is covered with unusually elaborate Halloween decorations. Chast has a husband, two children--one of whom is picking a banjo upstairs--and two very vocal parrots that say things like "Waffles!" and "Look, damn it!" and, for some reason, "What a big toast!" For 28 years, she has sent half a dozen ideas to the New Yorker every Tuesday and then waited to see which would be accepted. True to her characters, she gets very anxious about it. "It does not get any easier. At all. It's horrible...
...country charts. Maines has an immensely powerful voice, but she's also capable of barometric emotional adjustments; she almost never oversings and thus sounds great coming out of stereo speakers. Meanwhile, in a medium that values tradition, Maguire and Robison played the most traditional country instruments, fiddle and banjo, and played them well. It didn't hurt either that all three were lookers...
...linger in the corner. The diners at Tommy Doyle’s treat it like any other background music. One middle-aged couple watches from the bar with great enjoyment, but they are already familiar with this music and are simply waiting for their daughter—a banjo player—to arrive...
...things: the attractive, brass-railed bar and the attractive, smiling bartender, who furnished us with an equally attractive beer. Onstage were a bunch of guys who looked like they were having fun: a bluegrass-rock band called Old School Freight Train. The band included a mandolin, fiddle, and banjo in addition to the regular stuff, and they were awesome; it was one of those performances that lasts more than an hour but feels like it’s over in ten minutes. It was grin-inducing and unlike anything we’d heard recently. Even better, the club...