No Satisfaction on the Lost Highway

photo caption: Desktop still life with Kara Walker, Santa Olaya, PR, 2011


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Monday, June 12, 2000
Albany, NY

I needed to go to our Blockbuster which is on Delaware Avenue to take back my overdue movies: "The Millionairess", with Rock Hudson and Anita Ekberg; "The Long Goodbye", with Eliot Gould; and David Lynch's "Lost Highway". I had wanted to get Groucho Marx in "Night at Casablanca" and "Mambo Kings" with Tito Puente, but the teenage-movie-buff-clerk on duty that night told me both films were in moratorium.

"Both films?" I asked him.

"Yep," he replied.

"What's a moratorium?" I asked.

"Well, I don't exactly know," he said, "but that's where they are."

"Whatever for?" I asked.

"It has something to do with communism, the embargo of Cuba, and other remnants of the cold war," he said.

"What?" I asked...

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Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

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