More Autobridge!
Apr. 10th, 2002 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupFinally got ahold of Eightball #22. (Not at the store that locked me out on Saturday.) I know I have said this before, but Clowes just continues to astonish. Every issue has gotten progressively deeper and more subtle. The older ones -- still hilarious to be sure -- now look jokey and insubstantial next to what he's done. This issue focuses around the Leopold and Loeb case, which fascinated me when I was at the U. of Chicago. (Let's just say it was not featured prominently in their prospective student literature.) The story is just the launching point for a lot of observations and character sketches that bring home that midwestern gloom so effectively. You put the thing down feeling as though you've read a real masterpiece.
Finally received a package from my folks. They found their old Autobridge, which was for beginners (I got a bit annoyed with mine, which was for intermediate players) and sent it to me along with a couple of nifty books, including a handy bid guide card by Charles Goren. The Autobridge box says on the cover, "Includes latest bidding changes for 1957!" As long as nothing has changed in the past 45 years I guess I should be OK, then... But I will say again how much I love the Autobridge itself. It is a masterpiece of 1950s design: sleek, almost aerodynamic aluminum, well designed but not high tech, and it fits in a jacket pocket. I just wish I had people to learn bridge with.
Also, thanks to all of you who wished my mom well -- I appreciated your kind thoughts! She's out of the hospital and happy to be home, though I think she had problems again with the rapid heartbeat. Although she will probably upbraid me for the "wasteful expense," I decided to send flowers to the house.
Finally received a package from my folks. They found their old Autobridge, which was for beginners (I got a bit annoyed with mine, which was for intermediate players) and sent it to me along with a couple of nifty books, including a handy bid guide card by Charles Goren. The Autobridge box says on the cover, "Includes latest bidding changes for 1957!" As long as nothing has changed in the past 45 years I guess I should be OK, then... But I will say again how much I love the Autobridge itself. It is a masterpiece of 1950s design: sleek, almost aerodynamic aluminum, well designed but not high tech, and it fits in a jacket pocket. I just wish I had people to learn bridge with.
Also, thanks to all of you who wished my mom well -- I appreciated your kind thoughts! She's out of the hospital and happy to be home, though I think she had problems again with the rapid heartbeat. Although she will probably upbraid me for the "wasteful expense," I decided to send flowers to the house.
