Holiday Inn Vonnegut!

Yes, living in Midland, I know what you wrote was true. For instance, take your character Dwayne Hoover (from Breakfast of Champions and Deadeye Dick) and his gay son. Hoover disowns his son, and his son plays piano at the Holiday Inn. Anyway, I was talking to my old guitar/piano teacher about Midland being a dragging scene and so forth. Then I mentioned you, Kurt Vonnegut, in passing and how you stayed at the Holiday Inn in Midland and wrote all these stories about how horrible it is here and how you were and are right and blah, blah, blah. Apparently, my old teacher used to play piano at this Holiday Inn (this! Holiday Inn, which is less than a mile from my house) presumably around the same or a little after the time when you visited Midland. And apparently, the owner of the Holiday Inn's real name was Whittaker, and his son, who had a pronounced lisp, was a piano player too. My teacher's last name is Widiger. Well, if you can imagine, he was hit on a great deal by the passing gay men. They used to always buy him drinks, and, while he didn't appreciate the male attention, he did appreciate free drinks. But he never knew why all this happened until I mentioned this character from your novels.

Weird? Yes. Should my old guitar teacher read more? Probably.  ¶ 10:11 AM