whats dove got to do with it

 

Fri 8/12

Carry around a fat book and people talk to you. On my way to returning a 1000 page Larry McMurtry novel to the library, I stop at the nearby pocket garden. The friendly guy who sits at the entrance asks me what I’m reading. I show him and he says he's read Lonesome Dove and that his wife’s best friend was up for the female lead in the TV series but she lost out to some “bitch” and she stopped acting.  “Angelica Houston” I say.  “Yes, you’re right.  That God damn bitch.”