How's it going?  Blinding, mate.

the nominate subspecies

The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.

His harmonica work has the breezy lightness and sensuality one would expect from a musician who spent several years with Slim Harpo, but he's also capable of a full-bodied tone, bending notes with a guitarlike intensity […].