Alan Ziegler

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@BobWeide "These Foolish Things" (Rosemary Clooney), "Since You Asked" (Judy Collins"), "It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone" (Mel Tormé), "For a Dancer" (Jackson Browne), and, to be self-indulgent, one I co-wrote: https://t.co/6tgf3LBzVK

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@BobWeide Eager to watch!

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@Sarah_Smarsh @TIME I am a major anticipator!

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@TrickyLaRouge @KristiD_Osorio Perry and Harmon on the same pages! What a feast.

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@likaluca Basilica of San Clemente. Enter in the 12th Century, go down one level to the 4th Century, and one more level to ancient Roman ruins. Near the Colosseum.

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We have become instant text-friends, and I see a buddy movie in the offing.

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sweater on the far right. The rest has been chronicled by Robert, leading to this picture, taken by Erin…

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It didn’t take a forensics expert to realize he was across the street. Later, I asked myself the cop-show question: “Can you zoom in there?” Not enough for facial recognition but there we were, kettle of fish and all (that’s me, with the green…

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As Erin set about trying to crack shells, I retreated to Twitter to avoid the carnage, and Robert Weide’s post about being outside in a Paris cafe popped up, with a photo.

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school and meant to see if Robert might need a teaching anecdote—Kurt rarely taught so there aren’t that many of us (John Irving being one). I never reached out, but started following Robert on Twitter (by the way, “X” looks very much like Vonnegut’s…

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drawing of an asshole). A granfalloon of sea creatures was deposited on our table:

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Eventually, Erin said , “Atlas,” which we had passed several times (and was the first place we ate on our first Paris stay thirty years ago). Robert Weide has been on my radar for many years—“Curb” of course—but mainly his Vonnegut film. I had studied with Kurt in graduate…

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@BobWeide posted a thread about our slightly-more-than-zero-chance meeting in Paris May 22. Here’s the view from the other side of the street. It was our last night in Paris and my wife, Erin, and I had perambulated for an hour or so, sidewalk-shopping for our final dinner…

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@BobWeide We are across the street at atlas and wish I’d brought a Weide t shirt. Big fans and I was a student of Vonneguts.

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@Shteyngart In Marty Feldman’s voice: “What prosthesis?”

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@Yoda4ever https://t.co/a7Yy5f2C7e

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Dachshund searching iPad for puppy pictures.

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@Track_Gazette Was

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Dachshund searching iPad for puppy pictures.

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Dachshund puppy hauling onions