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Surprise Bouquet 1. Ben Model, silent film keyboardist, entrepreneur, lecturer, co-host and accompanist for the YouTube channel Silent Comedy Watch Party, thanked me via email for the congratulatory card I sent (I also sent one to the co-host Steve Massa), and asked me for permission to read it on the March 19 2023 episode celebrating the third anniversary of the channel [1]. 2. I learned from email, that two fosstodon.org Mastodon accounts credited me for bringing their attention to the books _Resisting the Attention Economy_ by Jenny Odell and _Stolen Focus_ by Johann Hari, and disclosed how following the guidance of those books improved their lives. They had read of those two books either from my gopher phlog, probably the sdf one, or from agk (also sdf), who may have mentioned my gopher phlog. I love that more people are using gopher, and I love to know what people are reading. I am watching "Avanti!" (1972, Billy Wilder; starring Jack Lemmon, Juilet Mills, Clive Revill, Italian personae) and am remembering when I flew to Japan where my brother had died suddenly in September 2014. I did not know anything that was going on. Even the memory of being at the back of the line, keeping my driver/translator/brother's good friend waiting, for Passport Control and Customs, when Wendell Armbruster is told, after a passport/clothing switch imbroglio with a Dr. Fleischman, he must go to the back of the line to have his passport stamped. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOdzxysLHU