Endnotes and Digressions:

1. Grey-tones for this installment by Chad Essley.

2. Allan did play on occasion with his son — local blues-harp legend Paul deLay.

3. Courtesy of the Clackamas Review, here’s the (slightly edited) text of that interview I conducted with Allan in 1995. (It originally saw print on Jan. 4, 1996.)

4. Also, here's a lovely online tribute to Allan by Keith Graham (who let me borrow his photo to close out this comic).

5. Want to see some of Allan's photojournalism? Here's a gallery of his shots of a handful of jazz legends -- including Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.

6. I actually did write (in college) a Shakespearean sonnet titled "Bugs In My Sink," which I actually did read at Jos' party. For posterity's sake, it's reproduced below. Apologies in advance.

BUGS IN MY SINK

'Tis hot, a summer night, insects my sink
Do populate. In heat and dark they flew
To cool, bright water, trapped now, wayward ink
In heavy drops. One wretch, desperate, drew
A picture ripple in a puddle, leg
Writhed off for art's sake. Turn of knob, and SWISH!
He's gone. Another raised a wing to beg
With angry facets. Turn of knob, his wish
Is lapped away and down. Two rub'ry mates
In tandem rise. But turn of knob, and woe:
The congregation is divided, hates
And loves are extradited in the Flow.
Perhaps I'd feel their anger, art, and tug
If factions all unite in one huge Bug.

Type too small? You can download a high-rez PDF of CulturePulp 47 right here: CulturePulp47.pdf