That was just cool

This past Monday I went down to Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights (my local book store of old) to see expat Hamster Cat Valente do a reading/concert/art auction.  It’s as cool as it sounds, and if you’re lucky enough to have her doing her Palimpsest rounds somewhere near you, I’d recommend it.  Not only is her prose well suited to readings (The excerpts she’s chosen stand on their own artistically.  And they were read out of sequence to form their own mini-narrative arc, which was an impressive achievement in and of itself, not many novels you could do that with.) but she’s teamed up with a singer, S.J.Tucker, who has a kick-ass voice and a style that seems to perfectly complement Cat’s fiction.  (I’m ripping one of her CDs to my iPod as I write this.)

I also got to be a good samaritan.  When Cat lost track of her reading copy, I lent her my freshly puchased copy of  Palimpsest.  All and all, a great time was had by all, and I managed to get out of Cleveland Heights without a parking citation.