[booklog 2005]

63. And I'm Glad: An Oral History of Edisto Island, Nick Lindsay and Julia Cart. transcription of oral histories of Edisto Island, SC. the stories were first written down in the 1960s and 70s, and came from people whose memories went back through their family and community to the early 1800s: stories of Kwibo Tom and his brother who first came over from West Africa (they came free, but one way or another their wives and children were sold as slaves when they arrived), of Gullah, of the slave culture on the island through the 1800s, of the War and Peace and Reconstruction, of the Depression and work on the island, of leaving and returning, all the way up through what Edisto is now. one thing that stood out was that time on the island is marked by the storms as much as anything else, and what vivid memories people hold of getting through them. there's one first-hand account of the hurricane of 1893, which wiped out most of the island (people, buildings, livestock) and made it impossible to grow anything on the land for two years afterward.

64. Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. yeah, all of it. so now i've got Spider's gonzo thrash and stomp in my brain along with the song of Gullah. makes for a weird perspective.