Now wait a gosh darn minute. Here you are asking people to send you money when you still haven't paid me back. Worse, you're holding one of my precious books hostage.
You have major league cajones, lady.
- H.G.
Are we still meeting up at Bangkok? I've got the massage oil...
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann <joy.mccann@...> wrote:
>
*snip* *snip*
>
> "Well," I tell her, "It's like a standup routine, in a certain sense. There
> is some self-exposure." And I think that's a big part of what I do, whether
> I'm writing about politics, my mom, or driving on the Interstate 5. And I
> enjoy it; I just wish people would send me more money.
>
> It has certainly occurred to me to publish a chapbook, like Jan's,
> but--whatever would I put in it? Essays? Poems? Snippets of dialogue? Like
> Snoopy in Charles Schulz's Peanuts, the first thing I'd want to write would
> be the price.
>
> --J
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Alex Melnick <aemelnick_at_...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > So, I started reading Paul's book over the weekend, and I'm mostly enjoying
> > it so far (and yes, the non-math people around here should definitely check
> > it out). But the thing is that there are times when I have to remind myself
> > to take it seriously.
> >
> > What I mean to say is, if this book had been written by John Smith instead
> > of that ex-Olive Paul Lockhart, I'd be paying more attention to the content
> > and less to the author. But instead of thinking about the argument, I find
> > myself thinking about the time that Paul did [insert your favorite Paul
> > anecdote here].
> >
> > And it's not just this book--I've had similar reaction to David's, Mike's,
> > and Janine's books, Joy's blog, and Sandra Loh's radio commentaries. I
> > suspect that it says something about my refusal to accept that I'm a
> > grown-up. After all, if the rest of you are serious, respected adults,
> > surely I ought to be one, too?
> >
> > So, is it just me? And is it just the Olives, or do you think that [insert
> > your favorite "serious" author]'s old school friends have the same type of
> > reaction?
> >
> > aemelnick_at_... <aemelnick%40yahoo.com> --
> > http://www.geocities.com/alexm_94109
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Joy M. McCann
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> (But pixels obey me, too.)
> Mistress of proofreading, fact-checking,
> Line-editing, and copyediting
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