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#727: H is for Hitchcock, Robyn

The first album from Robyn Hitchcock I ever heard after I bought the CD in 1988 is also thelast Hitchcock record added to the collection on vinyl, the 2025 remixedand remastered Globe of Frogs. It remains today, I think, my favoriteRobyn Hitchcock record. “Tropical Flesh Mandala” had about the strangestlyric lines I had ever heardContinue reading “#727: H is for Hitchcock, Robyn”

Dispatches From Writer’s Camp: Tropical Flesh Mandala

I slept for seven hours cuddled up with my tiny electric fan–literally.  I thought maybe I’d roll over in the middle of the night and knock it off the mattress, or, worse, dreaming that I was snuggling with this machine, I might wake up with my hair caught in the fan blades.  No, it was safeContinue reading “Dispatches From Writer’s Camp: Tropical Flesh Mandala”