On cursed cassettes
These are strange days. Before me sits a pile of fifteen cassettes, each one 30-35 years old. (Or more.) Yellowed labels, stuck on as early as the late 1980s, are being removed with mineral spirits and Q-tips. They document the names of sermons with titles like "Baptism - now what?" Spiritual Response to Demonic & Occult," and "Joy." I bought the tapes at auction, anticipating a project like this one would come along - braying old preachers taped over, muzzled for once. Inser