From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Soltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure season four in American tragedy.

I am your host, your ear lover, and literary Mansplainer in chief, Michael,

Ian Black, speaking to you today in some discomfort. I threw out my back a couple of days ago and as a kid I never understood that expression and I a because the process of me going from able-bodied

to utterly immobile, it really,

there's no throwing involved.

In my case, it was standing.

I just stood up from the chair and then immediately had to go to my knee because I found myself in such tremendous pain as my back just kind of exploded. Lower back and it's sort of radiating down.

Sometimes just my right hip, sometimes my left and my right hip.

And then it kind of goes away during the day and then at night

particularly if I've been lying on the couch it comes back but lying on the couch is how I find

myself most comfortable so it's a little bit of a conundrum there. Now look this isn't the

first time I've thrown up my bag. It happens. Oh I don't know infrequently but it happens know, every couple of years or so.

So I can't really blame it on old age or impending decrepitude or anything of this sort.

It is just one of those annoying human things that happens every now

and again you try to stand up and the next thing you, you're taking yourself a knee.

It is a good excuse though for when you don't want to move and of course I so rarely

do wish to move, but it's unusual for me to have as good an excuse as I do right now

which is I cannot because I am in literally crippling pain and that would be almost certainly an

exaggeration for how I am feeling but if I was looking for an excuse that's a

pretty good one so I'm dealing with that and made a terrific

veggie lasagna last night. Yum yum yum. Can I have that for dinner already

looking forward to it? And're not we're not nearly at dinner time yet I still got a couple hours until dinner time but oh man I'm already thinking about that lasagna in fact I had some for lunch

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