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From our Mailbag 06/25/01 - 07/29/01

Don't Come Bitchin' to Me...

From Yona R., San Francisco, CA, USA:

SUBJECT: The Journey

rod...reading your story reminds me of the person you were when i first met you.... homeless, waiting for the money to come in, and the main character in some strange book you were writing.

in a sense i don't get it. in another i do. i hear this amazing emotionality in your 'voice' ( even if i am making up what you sound like as you write). the ups and downs are where you thrive. boredom and routine seem to be your enemy. so is the projection of your fears onto others. i never heard felicity ask you to leave... but then perhaps you omitted that part. what i did hear is this huge anziety well up inside you .... and the search for a place where it could be dispelled.

the other thing is that it sounds like belgrade people (for justifiable reasons) have a similar anziety. it's no wonder that you would feel at home there. something big is happening providing a good place to dispell that excess passion. perhaps too a place to be passionate among the people.

and just an afterthought to throw in there.... perhaps that has something to do with your 'hatred' of the brits... their motis operanti is rational, maybe even meanspirited as you suggested. it's probably true that most people in power forget what it is like to be stepped on.... forget what it feels like to be desperate or powerless or so passionate that they risk it all because really there is not much to lose. in writing all this i picture you once again... and see that getting comfortable and/or powerful is not your gig. there isn't much passion in it. i hope you find what you are looking for.

yo


From Stoney G., Orange, CA, USA: SUBJECT: West Into the Night

I was Belgrade

wtf are you doing in belgrade ?

playing russian roulette ?

:)


From Those Weak Ass Punks at Pimpit.com, USA:

TO: Charlie the Tuna:

You are a fake ass fuck, major beat down huh. Bring it on, pimpIT.com will burn you alive.

I am confident you dont have a fuckin idea who you are dealing with.

You are a fuckin looser, try to get laid instead if hiding your fake ass behind a computer.


From Mike Mallen, San Francisco, CA, USA:

SUBJECT: joke!

Rod,

I can't believe the bullshit I just read at G-21. I can't believe how low you have sunken. You have a public forum to bad mouth people only presenting your version of what is taking place. You call yourself a journalist? I wonder what your reading public would think if they were able to read the 'two sides to every story' version. I didn't get caught inÝa lie,Ýyou still don'tÝget it.

I'll let you use your writing to get sympathy from your readers. Maybe it will get you enoughÝ'donations' to get a few cocktails at happy hour. Interesting though, you pride yourself on being honest and someone who upholds good in this world; yet you break all the rules and you find yourself hiding behind your proverbial 'pen'. You write lies and you print only yourÝversion of the worldÝaround you.

On a final note, I readÝyour benediction that you giveÝyour readers at the endÝof your article,Ýonly to realize that you again areÝabusing theÝbasic rules of journalism by not givingÝcredit to the true author of those famous lines. A fellow African American of all things, the late great Satchel Paige,Ýis credited with the creation of those three lines you use so frequently.ÝI'm not to worried about theÝ'bullshit' you write about me, butÝshow some respect to the first African AmericanÝvoted into theÝMajor League Baseball Hall of Fame.ÝÝ


ROD RESPONDS: Well, over the years I've heard that those three lines of my favorite quote have come from a country-western singer, a poet, another novelist, and NOW a baseball player. Funny thing about urban legends is how they spread.

As to my estimable skills as a journalist, Mike. I don't call "My Glass House" journalism. Probably because it contains too much truth: For example, that you lied about trying to pay me for my last work. I stand by that story because I did the last work you asked for and you never paid me. Live with it.


From David L., Chigasaki, JAPAN:

SUBJECT: advertising

The editor of one ad journal estimates the US will spend $249.8 billion this year. The total world expenditure on ads will be $450- 500 billion.

Keep up the good work!

David L.
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"There is a distinct connection between consumerism (the acceptance of consumption as the way to self-development, self-realization, and self-fulfillment) and the degradation of work. If meaningful work is systematically denied to a people, then obviously they must seek their meanings elsewhere. It should be no surprise that the search was directed into the realm of consumption. . . . But we all realize that no matter how much we try to convince ourselves to the contrary, the satisfaction derived from consumption is not the same as the sense of accomplishment, joy, and fulfillment that producing something engenders." -- Raymond Benton, Jr.

David R. L.
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From Judy P., No City Provided, USA:

Hi Rod,

Wow, your ezine is very interesting! It's nice to run into you. I just forwarded your zine's URL to a friend of mine who was recently a press officer at the UN. Maybe he will want to write for you too.

I wonder if your BINYAVANGA WAINAINA has any raw vegan recipes that he would like to share with my readers.

Judy
editor/founder/designer http://www.RawFoodsNews.com Rated Number 1 in the Webseed Directory's Most Interesting Sites list, out of more than 570 sites. Webseed determines most interesting sites by how many articles a person looks at in any one visit to a site.


ROD REPONDS: Gosh, Judy, I'm glad you liked the mag'. I'm blushing. I'll pass your suggestion along to the Binj. Food slut that he is, I'm sure he'll go for it.


From Gaby R., (No City Provided), USA:

SUBJECT: CMT

Hi Ed,

I am 27 yrs old and have CMT. My dad who is 60 has it as well. I became a vegetarian a few years ago to help combat the disease. I've been doing research on B12 deficiency and came across your article. I am considering taking methylcobalamin. I have been taking sun chlorella and CGF for a month now and was wondering what you think about it. What other things does your wife do to help CMT? I too have been discouraged by western medicine and refuse to wear my AFO's, I find they just make my ankles weaker. I would love to hear about your wife's progress.

Your article is great! It is refreshing to read a natural approach to CMT.

Gaby R.

From Paul M., (No City Provided,) SOUTH AFRICA:

SUBJECT: Your Life

Been following your life, as presented in "My Glass House" for a couple of years now, Daddieo. You're certainly one hell of a fictional character, I'll give ya' that, mate. If you were actually a real, flesh-and-blood person, I'd feel sorry for ya' and send along a few rand. ANYBODY goin' through this much shit would deserve it. But I don't believe a word of it. Great tale, though.

Paul

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From Doug McDaniel, Telluride, CO, USA:

Dear Major Media Honcho,

We were hoping that you would be interested in doing an article----and even attending----the second annual Telluride Tech Festival: A Celebration of Technology, Past Present and Future, Aug. 10-13, 2001, taking place again this year at the majestic mountain resort community of Telluride, Colorado.

The four-day event in the free-thinkerÌs paradise of Telluride provides an opportunity for attendees ----this year to be limited to 250 ---- who are some of the leading lights of these technological times.

After last yearÌs festival drew Tech Fest honorees John Perry Barlow, Raymond Kurzweil and Richard Stallman, who came to the first of such events to celebrate the breakthroughs in technology that have taken place in this unlikely part of the world, the festival this year will attract experts in everything from artificial intelligence to the search for intelligent life in the universe.

And, of course, we will once again be electrifying a Tesla Coil on the streets of Telluride, a spectacular event that recognizes the historical connection of Telluride as the site of the worldÌs first commercial alternating-current power plant, based on concepts brought to the world by Nikola Tesla and L.L. Nunn in the 1890s.

"Telluride, as the site for the Tech Fest, is being celebrated as a historic incubator of breakthrough technologies," says Tech Fest co-founder Scott Brown. "Feel free to speak your mind and have a good time. It's a tradition."

Coming in the spirit of discovery that drew the likes of Madame Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla to the region to change the face of technology more than 100 years ago, this yearÌs honorees and award winners include:

----Danny Hillis, co-chairman and chief technology officer of Applied Minds Inc., first Disney fellow, inventor of the Connection Machine, co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp., member on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute and the SETI InstituteÌs Technical Advisory Committee.

----Jill Tarter, holder of the Bernard M. Oliver chair for SETI, director of Project Phoenix of the SETI Institute and recipient of two Public Service Medals from NASA and of the Women of Achievement Award, Science and Technology.

----Lewis Branscomb, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at Harvard University, director of the National Bureau of Standards 1969-72, Vice President and Chief Scientist of IBM Corporation, director of Mobile, MITRE, Lord Corporation and C.S. Draper Laboratories.

----Nick DeWolf, co-founder of Teradyne, founder of Rofintug, and programmer of the computer for the fountain in downtown Aspen, Co.

For registration and ticket information, go to www.telluridetechfestival.com. Festival co-founder Scott Brown can be contacted directly by calling (970) 728-7000, or, by e-mail at scottbrown@rmi.net.

If you would be interested in obtaining interviews with these and other special guests, or would like additional information, please feel free to contact us.

Thanks,

Douglas McDaniel
Telluride Tech Festival
(970) 728-0945
P.O. Box 2605
Telluride, CO 81435
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