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Friday, January 29, 2010
Reporting book reviewers to the FBI…
(From the I can’t even make this stuff up department) An article in the British newspaper The Guardian called When Authors Attack is one of the most bizarre things I have read lately.
Check it out-click HERE:
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JD Salinger, Howard Zinn, and Dave…
JD Salinger the reclusive novelist who wrote The Catcher in the Rye died earlier this week. He had barely been seen by anybody over the past 50 years. Residents of the small New England town where Salinger resided would spot him now and then but they left him alone.
Howard Zinn the radical historian also died this week. Zinn and Salinger lived long lives.
Then there was my friend Dave. He died on Monday. Dave was one of my high school chums. Dave was also a genius. He invented things like an inverted cardioid wankel engine.
I became acquainted with all three men when I was in high school. I read Salinger and Zinn back then and I hung out with Dave.
Dave was an amazing man. He used to be able to fall asleep at the drop of a hat. I can remember times when he didn’t seem to be holding up his end of a conversation and I would realize that he was sound asleep. He could fall asleep sitting on the floor with his arms leaning back to support him.
Dave was also very funny. He liked to describe the various amusements of our high school set as “the euphemistic endeavors of our generation..” Then there was the imaginary character Dave would describe; a fellow he called Norman Fenugeek who supposedly made all sorts of silly statements. That was Dave.
I’ll miss ya buddy.
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