http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/heat_fire The way to read in Cal Anderson Park on a broiling day is to sit on the edge of the reflection/wading pool (humans used to be barred, but now it's full of swimming dogs and children just about all the time) with your shoes off and your feet in the water. The other day I was sitting there with my iPod on shuffle and suddenly Tom Robbins was orating the last chapter of The Great Gatsby. Not a bad soundtrack to the sight of people running across a huge lawn and splashing through a pool. In the dead of summer.... Copyright 2007 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:37:56 -0800 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:17:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss oh christopher. what a charming little post this is! makes me want to re-read gatsby or, at least, fall in love with a stranger wearing a hat.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/heat_fire#c442739 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/08/heat_fire#c442739 Arts Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:17:11 -0800