Chris Knox has suffered a stroke. In fact, he did so two months ago, but I didn’t read about it until recently. Chris, it seems, lost all of his body functions but his sense of humour and the recovery process will therefore be a long one; friends and family are regularly posting updates on a blog dedicated to Chris’s health, while befriended artists like Martin Phillipps, Yo La Tengo and The Mountain Goats are covering some of his songs for a tribute album, appropriately called Stroke.

I should send him a postcard. After all, Chris is one half of Tall Dwarfs, whose song gave this blog its name more than seven years ago (almost ten if you include the time when it existed solely in my head). And while, contrary to what that might suggest, I am not a fan of everything they recorded, some of their more poppy songs are really good. And so are some of Chris’s solo recordings, such as Not Given Lightly, written two decades ago for the woman who is still his wife and one of the most honest love songs I know.

I should revive this blog, too.