Tayari's Blog: Memorabilia I'd Go To Jail For

Posted by TayariJones on September 20, 2007 06:18 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

Last weekend, I was in Gulfport with Natasha T. We were there for research, but we found some time for R&R at the Hard Rock Casino. If you've ever been there, you know that place is packed with music memorabilia. I spent a full five minutes staring in awe at the quilt made entirely of panties women threw at Frank Zappa! While Natasha and I were sitting at the bar, we saw on CNN that O.J. had been arrested for trying to steal back some of his belongings in Vegas. This got us to thinking, is there much of a market for author memorabilia?

Of course we are willing to concede that our own particular belongings may be worthless, but there are other goodies that I wouldn't mind nabbing. For example:

Do you remember about ten years ago when there was this rumor that Terry Mac was mad because Toni M. and Alice W. didn't send flowers to celebrate her record breaking paperback deal? The story is that Toni M, after hearing the tale, told her secretary: "Send the child some roses." I WANT THAT VASE.

And speaking of the Great Miz Morrison, I wonder how much one her sliver dreadlocks would go for.

For one of Zora's hats, I would sell my car!

I wonder if Colson Whitehead would sell the suit he was wearing when Richard Ford spit on him at the Poets and Writers gala. (This would make a great gift for the cynical black writer in your life.)

What writerly cast-offs do you covet? No interest is too weird to put in comments!

There are 4 comments on "Memorabilia I'd Go To Jail For". If you'd like to leave a comment, click here to jump down to the comments entry form.

Comment #1, by carleen

Bebe Moore Campbell's original ms for Your Blues Ain't Like Mine. I'd love to see her thought process as she edited herself.

September 21, 2007 09:49 AM

Comment #2, by dwayne

tayari,

hey. let me see, ah, i got it. how bout that chair that huey newton sits in in the famous picture. yeah, i can deal with that.

dwayne

September 22, 2007 08:40 PM

Comment #3, by dwayne

tayari,

hey. let me see, ah, i got it. how bout that chair that huey newton sits in in the famous picture. yeah, i can deal with that.

dwayne

September 22, 2007 08:40 PM

Comment #4, by dwayne

tayari,

hey. let me see, ah, i got it. how bout that chair that huey newton sits in in the famous picture. yeah, i can deal with that.

dwayne

September 22, 2007 08:42 PM

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