I have contacted the City of Houston Proclamations office, and am currently awaiting would still like confirmation that yes, November 5th is Jandek Day in Houston... well, not just in Houston, but it started there. And that's something.
Everything I've found online seems to more or less accept the assertion as a matter of course, and outside of the above proclamation (which could be all Photoshopped up -- but who would go to the trouble, and why?) I'd like to get a little independent confirmation. Maybe that's just the Encyclopedia Brown in me. Hmmm. Well, Seth Tisue mentions it as reliable fact (and also hosts the copies of the proclamation), and he's pretty much the reputable source for Jandek information.
Oh yeah, also I turned up a good (unverified) Jandek quote from an unexpected source in my research:
"Jandek's not pretentious, but only pretentious people listen to him."
--Kurt Cobain
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Well, the Cobain quote is spot on.
Posted by: tom | 05/24/2005 at 16:33
In other Jandek news: my friend Schwarzberg has met Jandek. Ran into him in a bookstore in H-Town, apparently. Details coming soon.
Posted by: tom | 05/25/2005 at 09:24