{"id":116391,"date":"2017-10-03T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=116391"},"modified":"2017-10-03T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T20:56:22","slug":"petty-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/03\/petty-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Petty in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-116416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back when my son Harry was little, I\u2019d take him out early in the morning, usually with Miss Otis in tow, and walk over to Les Deux Gamins. One of those mornings, I got there around eight. They were still setting up inside, but the morning was mild, must have been early October, and I sat at one of the four or five outside tables. Noel, the Moroccan waitress, brought me coffee in a bowl and brought Miss Otis a similar bowl half filled with water. She looked at it with a mix of droit du seigneur and disdain. As if she were thinking both, <em>Mine!<\/em> and <em>What the fuck do I care?<\/em> Pugs have that look down solid.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Petty walked by and stopped to take in the caf\u00e9. He was with a pretty blonde woman, not a girl, a woman who looked like she\u2019d done some heavy lifting. She was in a\u00a0T-shirt and loose cardigan, but he was wrapped up in a navy peacoat, hands in his pockets. Anything below\u00a0seventy degrees was probably winter to him.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They sat down at a nearby table. He took out a pack of cigarettes, then looked at the woman he was with, shrugged, and put it back in his pocket. Instead he pulled out an old Walkman and set it down on the table along with some cheap headphones and a couple of cassettes.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Otis began to snore. Petty looked down and shook his head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat,\u201d he said, \u201cis not a dog.\u201d He pronounced it <em>dawg<\/em>. His voice was mentholated. He shook his head again, and his blond hair swung back and forth like he was a Breck Girl. Miss Otis kept snoring. Petty smirked a little, then disappeared under the headphones and lit the cigarette from before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Cullman is a writer and musician living in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Back when my son Harry was little, I\u2019d take him out early in the morning, usually with Miss Otis in tow, and walk over to Les Deux Gamins. One of those mornings, I got there around eight. 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