A compulsive collector confesses ...

[BillF]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/01/stewart-lee-collecting-comics-stand-up

[A Lark Ascending]

I love this bit:

And all this stuff, in the digital age, is literally worthless financially, and losing any value it had daily. There's nothing here a burglar would even bother with. I'm aware I'm a social relic from an age when you walked through the shopping centre with an unbagged album under your arm to show like-minded souls who you were, and when the book as an object was quietly fetishised.

Stewart Lee curated an avant-garde sequence at Cheltenham this year including Evan '2ft 4in' Parker.

I like the idea of calculating your collection in terms of feet and inches (instead of how many CDs). Though as I dispense with the jewel boxes, my Miles Davis is a mere 1ft 3 1/2 inches (those boxes pad it out somewhat).

Edited August 1, 2010 by Bev Stapleton

[mjzee]

Boy, this guy nailed it! I'm surprised he uses ft & in rather than cm. Also, almost 5 ft of Derek Bailey??? And someone still married him?? Wow, he must be quite a guy!

[papsrus]

A friend of mine, Andy, has devoted his life to literature, his enormous cranium swollen with learning. His shelves always impressed me.

[JSngry]

Boy, this guy nailed it! I'm surprised he uses ft & in rather than cm. Also, almost 5 ft of Derek Bailey??? And someone still married him?? Wow, he must be quite a guy!

Maybe he's got 13 inches of Stewart Lee?

[mjzee]

Boy, this guy nailed it! I'm surprised he uses ft & in rather than cm. Also, almost 5 ft of Derek Bailey??? And someone still married him?? Wow, he must be quite a guy!

Maybe he's got 13 inches of Stewart Lee?

[Head Man]

Maybe he's got 13 inches of Stewart Lee?

What's that in cm?

[JSngry]

33.02