Some of the more interesting email letters recently sent to LitVision editor Pat:
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:31 -0400
From: "Jorge Luis Gonzalez" <XX@jorge.cc>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
Subject: Re: Why I'm Jumpy Around Dodge Darts
Pat,
I really have no recollection of having submitted the piece for
publication in any forum. Do you happen to have the headers of the submission?
Thanks,
JL
Editor's Note: This guy might have been smoking something.
He sent the submission in late January 2008 and promptly
forgot about it. Shows how much LitVision means to him! I
politely emailed him back the evidence that he was a
senile git. I did it politely only because there is a
boxer named Jorge Luis Gonzalez, and if it's this same guy
i really don't wanna see my soft American ass beat to a
twitching pulp.
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:19:42 -0700
From: "Sasha A. Rae" <xxxxx.xxx@gmail.com>
To: editor@litvision.org
Subject: My story on LitVision
Hi Mr. Editor Pat,
A few years ago I submitted a story, Dog Days of Dating, to your
publication. Happily, you published it on your site. Right now I'm
working on incorporating the material into another of my works and I
was hoping you could remove the story from your site. Is that a
possibility? The link I have is: http://www.litvision.org/xxx.html
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Best regards,
Sasha A. Rae
Editor's Note: I always comply with requests like this,
even though they wound me deeply! Sasha was very nice so i
took her story down right away. If you missed it, go see
Sex and the City for similar effect.
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From: xxxx@tittybiscuits.com
To: patrick@litvision.org, editor@litvision.org, al_pacas_rule@litvision.org
Subject: Sorry, I think there was a powercut in the middle of the night and the
alarm didn't go off... it won't happen again.
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:06:16 -0500
Dear lover,
How the devil are you, man? It's been way too long. I've checked my favourite
neon website every month since our respective downtimes, and got real pumped
when I saw you were making a comeback the likes of which Jesus would admire.
But what's this? Missing deadlines already? Tut tut, that's my gig you're muscling
into.
I'm trying to claw a comeback at tittybiscuits.com, although I'm sadly not continuing
any biscuit-themed zines any time soon (it may happen some day when I get on
top of my own stuff though. Yeah, yeah, I know, how much time do I need?) but I
truly think a phoenix might be rising out of my desk side ashtray. I could have
really spent the last two years giving up smoking too, I suppose.
I hope you and your family are well - hit me back and let me know what's goin'
down in down town Cali town. In the mean time, if there's anything I can do to help
you get #17 out any quicker instead of keeping me salivating here like one of
Pavlov's dogs hitting refresh every two hours... well... <blushes> I'd be honoured
to wrap my little finger around yours and get this show on the road.
But let's pretend I'm doing you a favour, eh?
Yours in awesomeness,
Zeke
Zeke Iddon
writer/artist/single?
www.tittybiscuits.com
Editor's Note: Zeke is truly awesome, and i'm glad to see
Titty Biscuits back up again, more or less. I was really
glad to hear from the Zed. In fact it touched me deeply.
But being a typical man i do what we do when "emotions"
are aroused...I shut down and didn't even respond to his
email. Plus he called me lover and talked about our little
fingers. Ah the British are so strange. Long live Zeke
Iddon!
------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:05:31 +0100
From: "René Ghosh" <xxxxx@free.fr>
To: me@litvision.org
Subject: Your site
Hi,
Just read Alex Morton's story "Sex, Drugs and Unix" published on your site. By
the way, I don't think I've ever seen an uglier website as yours. It redefines the
very word "ugly" and by contrast reinforms the esthetics of the rest of the web.
The story was excellent and enthralled me from start to finish.
Kind regards,
René Ghosh
http://rghosh.free.fr
Editor's Note: This email made my year. French snobs, i
love you so much. I speak your dialect, i love mimes. I
want to love your women and stay in your country!
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From: "Avi Golden" <xxxxxxxx@hotmail.com>
To: me@litvision.org
Subject: what the fuck
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:21:15 -0600
dude,
i've followed your act for awhile now, and wonder about it all. i think you have lost
any credibility with writers who know who you are (that aren't personal friends). it's
been years since you have published anything on your site (other than posts
stating when you'd be back). help me understand what's going on... It all seems
pretty wacked, from the web site (clip art and all) to your never ending claims of
"reviving" the site. granted, i'm pretty drunk and high right now, but dude, don't you
fear being the laughing stock of the scene? if you love poetry and literature,
wouldn't you clean your shit up again? you don't seem to take poetry seriously, at
least that's how it seems from an outsiders point of view.
good luck,
avi golden
p.s. - the poetry warrior was the best shit you've done as far as i can tell!!!
Editor's Note: This one was weird. I had the vague feeling
that it was someone in disguise trying to give me a
lovingly mean nudge. Zeke Iddon, my dad, and one or two
lit-buddies were suspects. But who knows. Avi Golden,
whoever you are, **** me. And for the record i'm not the
poetry warrior.
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From: xxxxxxx@aol.com
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:49:26 EST
Subject: Welcome back
To: me@litvision.org
Welcome back!
All hail the drooling muse!
Mike (the bear story guy / Dec 2004) (And Justice for all / Mar 2005)
Editor's Note: Woohoo! Fan mail! I kinda felt guilty that
the December 2007 rebirth was one of my false starts.
Maybe my critics are right about me. Anywayz.....
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:53:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "R.A. Rubin" <xx_xxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Roy Rubin
To: me@litvision.org, me@litvision.org
Pat,
Was working on a film short. Master disks were stolen. Back to the
drawing board. I'll have a short story, about 4000 words full sex,
violence and death soon. It's a fun read. It'll be ready in January. Are you
interested?
Roy Rubin
Editor's Note: What can i say, Roy Rubin is the freakin'
man. The guy cracks me up. I'm disappointed Prose Toad
isn't around any more. I almost met Rubin at the Philly
Zine Fest in 2005, but when he came to the LitVision table
i was walking around or taking a piss or something.
Typical!
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:46:42 -0400
From: "Tao Lin" <xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
Subject: Re: I am ready to paypal the money
hi patrick
i am. i will draw in the books. drawings are my signature. for both books paypal me
$30. thank you patrick. if you want this paypal xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com.
tao lin
On 10/3/07, Patrick <editor2@litvision.org> wrote:
Binky Tabby,
Are you selling both you are a little bit happier than i am and Eeeeeeeeeeeee
directly? Do you have one copy of each right now that you could sign and send to
me? How much money am i going to send you?
Pat
Editor's Note: Ok so this is Tao Lin responding to an
email from me, but i wanted to include it anyway. Tao has
skillz. He scrawled satanic symbols in my poetry book.
----------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:44:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Roy Barnes" <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Submission Questions (LitVision)
To: editor@litvision.org
Hello:
Are you a paying market? If so, why do you talk about
paypal when the amt is "0"?
When will subs open up again?
thx, Roy
Editor's Note: Actually a lot of people are puzzled by the
obviously ironic statement that contributors will be
paypaled $0.00. This is a throwback from the early days
when LitVision actually did paypal $3.33 per contributor.
We're poor now though and i don't wanna. I just left in
the zeroes to confuse & annoy the lit mercenaries.
-------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Yul Tolbert" <xxx_xxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Glossy paper (again)
To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Do you have a lot of old glossy posters you don't need, or do you know of other
people who have a lot of old glossy posters they don't need? I'd like to use the
blank sides of them to draw my web comics on. I know it's cheap, but I think it
could work for me.
-- Yul
Editor's Note: Ahh, Yul. What a guy. If you don't know Yul
you really should. Who else would have the balls to send
out a mass email looking for old glossy posters to
scribble on the backs of? Freaking awesome. Yul i don't
have any but i hope you found some, brother. Now it's time
for our medication...
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Friday, November 21, 2008 7:36 PM
From: "Roy Rubin" <xxxxxx@ptd.net>
To: "Editor Pat" <editor2@litvision.org>
Re: is the new issue out yet?
Pat, You already have my story? remember, you were going to keep it till
October. Roy Rubin
----- Original Message -----
From: Editor Pat
To: Roy Rubin
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: is the new issue out yet?
Hi Roy,The next one will be LitVision #18, 12/15/08, so if you have a story feel
free to send it along.-Pat
Editor's Note: I only put this one in as a follow-up to
the first email in this column. Ok, so i'm a senile git
too.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:16 PM
Re: Zekeiel, how do your biscuits grow?
From: "Zeke A. Iddon" <zeke@tittybiscuits.com>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
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Pat,
It's been too long, my friend!
My cinematographic Indian fellows are correct - I am around. Sorry it's taken me
so long to get back to you. Well, I'm sorry it takes me so long to do anything, but
that's never going to change.
"If you wrote me within the last year, not that you would have..."
I might have done? Who the heck knows. What year is it? I know what you mean
about the spam e-mails, though, and I came to the same conclusion - if you've got
a theoretical infinite email boxes, the catch-all setting is a bitch. But if you think it
takes forever to delete them, imagine how long it take to reply to them all. The
kicker is, they still haven't sent me my penis pills.
What's my status? Let's see:
I'm 24, prefer dogs but my (hijacked) neighbour's cat is rubbing up against my leg
right now as I feed it my smoked mackerel and I'm starting to wonder, American
sports still confuse the heck out of me, enjoy nature walks also but there's nothing
to look at here 'cept concrete and an occasional hill if you travel far enough out of
town.
What else? Really got into digital graphic work, comics and painting, but as usual,
finding the time is a kick in the kidneys. In the Real Life World of Work (tm) I've
been training up to be an optician (a dispensing optician, not an optometrist - I
think the US makes more of a distinction with the difference) which I'm actually
really enjoying. Shit pay, but it's the first time I think I've ever enjoyed my day job?
That's all that matters.
Editor's Note: Sounds like Editor Zeke is doing great! I
thought i was the only one who stole cats from the
neighbors! Only the most hardcore LitVision fan will
remember Cynthia the Skinny Cat. Do you?
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From: jon rowland <xxxxxxxxxxX@yahoo.com>
Subject:
To: patrick@litvison.org
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 1:40 PM
As you update your site, I wonder if you’d mind mentioning somewhere on it that
the archived version of Thing Street Asylum has been revised, and that anyone
interested in obtaining a hard copy of the revision (now Pioneers of Alienism and
50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum) can e-mail me at jonrowland7@yahoo.com. I’m
not ready to post the “final” version anywhere, but I’d like people to know that it
exists, and where they can get a copy, if they want one. I realize I probably won’t
have any takers, but I’d appreciate it.
It might also be interesting if you reprinted that review I e-mailed you, since it
addresses some of the material assimilated into Thing Street. Everything seems
to end up there, eventually. Like Rome, I guess. I have a hard copy of Broken
Pencil, so I can tell you the review was written by someone named Amy
Greenwood. It's probably O.K. to reprint it, as long as she gets credited.
Yeah, you probably should put some work into the site, at least if you're serious
about making a go of it. At least that's how I interpret your latest (guilt-ridden?)
communique....
Cheers,
Jon R
Editor's Note: Jon's a nice guy, do what he says.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:49 PM
From: "advantage-news@amazon.com"
To: patrick@litvision.org
Item Status Change in your Amazon.com Advantage Account
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----
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account by clicking on the "Items" tab and selecting "Update Item Status" on the
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form of any which are no longer available.
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account, please contact Advantage Vendor Services.
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ie=UTF8&nodeId=15015781
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Editor's Note: This email was sent in reference to
Bukowski Never Did This, a LitVision Press book. Every few
months or so Amazon will sell one for me, but then when
they reorder they only reorder ONE copy! It's not worth
the shipping and effort for me to send one single book to
Amazon's warehouse, especially because the jerks keep
rejecting copies as "unsellable" if they have a
microscopic ding or dustflake on them. I reinstated
Bukowski Never Did This, but then the pricks ordered a
single copy again. So of course i'm going to ignore them.
I can sell my damn books on Ebay!
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:52:31 -0400
From: "Jorge Luis Gonzalez" <XX@jorge.cc>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
Subject: Re: Why I'm Jumpy Around Dodge Darts
Pat,
I really have no recollection of having submitted the piece for
publication in any forum. Do you happen to have the headers of the submission?
Thanks,
JL
Editor's Note: This guy might have been smoking something.
He sent the submission in late January 2008 and promptly
forgot about it. Shows how much LitVision means to him! I
politely emailed him back the evidence that he was a
senile git. I did it politely only because there is a
boxer named Jorge Luis Gonzalez, and if it's this same guy
i really don't wanna see my soft American ass beat to a
twitching pulp.
-----------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:19:42 -0700
From: "Sasha A. Rae" <xxxxx.xxx@gmail.com>
To: editor@litvision.org
Subject: My story on LitVision
Hi Mr. Editor Pat,
A few years ago I submitted a story, Dog Days of Dating, to your
publication. Happily, you published it on your site. Right now I'm
working on incorporating the material into another of my works and I
was hoping you could remove the story from your site. Is that a
possibility? The link I have is: http://www.litvision.org/xxx.html
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Best regards,
Sasha A. Rae
Editor's Note: I always comply with requests like this,
even though they wound me deeply! Sasha was very nice so i
took her story down right away. If you missed it, go see
Sex and the City for similar effect.
-------------------------------------
From: xxxx@tittybiscuits.com
To: patrick@litvision.org, editor@litvision.org, al_pacas_rule@litvision.org
Subject: Sorry, I think there was a powercut in the middle of the night and the
alarm didn't go off... it won't happen again.
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:06:16 -0500
Dear lover,
How the devil are you, man? It's been way too long. I've checked my favourite
neon website every month since our respective downtimes, and got real pumped
when I saw you were making a comeback the likes of which Jesus would admire.
But what's this? Missing deadlines already? Tut tut, that's my gig you're muscling
into.
I'm trying to claw a comeback at tittybiscuits.com, although I'm sadly not continuing
any biscuit-themed zines any time soon (it may happen some day when I get on
top of my own stuff though. Yeah, yeah, I know, how much time do I need?) but I
truly think a phoenix might be rising out of my desk side ashtray. I could have
really spent the last two years giving up smoking too, I suppose.
I hope you and your family are well - hit me back and let me know what's goin'
down in down town Cali town. In the mean time, if there's anything I can do to help
you get #17 out any quicker instead of keeping me salivating here like one of
Pavlov's dogs hitting refresh every two hours... well... <blushes> I'd be honoured
to wrap my little finger around yours and get this show on the road.
But let's pretend I'm doing you a favour, eh?
Yours in awesomeness,
Zeke
Zeke Iddon
writer/artist/single?
www.tittybiscuits.com
Editor's Note: Zeke is truly awesome, and i'm glad to see
Titty Biscuits back up again, more or less. I was really
glad to hear from the Zed. In fact it touched me deeply.
But being a typical man i do what we do when "emotions"
are aroused...I shut down and didn't even respond to his
email. Plus he called me lover and talked about our little
fingers. Ah the British are so strange. Long live Zeke
Iddon!
------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:05:31 +0100
From: "René Ghosh" <xxxxx@free.fr>
To: me@litvision.org
Subject: Your site
Hi,
Just read Alex Morton's story "Sex, Drugs and Unix" published on your site. By
the way, I don't think I've ever seen an uglier website as yours. It redefines the
very word "ugly" and by contrast reinforms the esthetics of the rest of the web.
The story was excellent and enthralled me from start to finish.
Kind regards,
René Ghosh
http://rghosh.free.fr
Editor's Note: This email made my year. French snobs, i
love you so much. I speak your dialect, i love mimes. I
want to love your women and stay in your country!
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From: "Avi Golden" <xxxxxxxx@hotmail.com>
To: me@litvision.org
Subject: what the fuck
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:21:15 -0600
dude,
i've followed your act for awhile now, and wonder about it all. i think you have lost
any credibility with writers who know who you are (that aren't personal friends). it's
been years since you have published anything on your site (other than posts
stating when you'd be back). help me understand what's going on... It all seems
pretty wacked, from the web site (clip art and all) to your never ending claims of
"reviving" the site. granted, i'm pretty drunk and high right now, but dude, don't you
fear being the laughing stock of the scene? if you love poetry and literature,
wouldn't you clean your shit up again? you don't seem to take poetry seriously, at
least that's how it seems from an outsiders point of view.
good luck,
avi golden
p.s. - the poetry warrior was the best shit you've done as far as i can tell!!!
Editor's Note: This one was weird. I had the vague feeling
that it was someone in disguise trying to give me a
lovingly mean nudge. Zeke Iddon, my dad, and one or two
lit-buddies were suspects. But who knows. Avi Golden,
whoever you are, **** me. And for the record i'm not the
poetry warrior.
-------------------------------------
From: xxxxxxx@aol.com
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:49:26 EST
Subject: Welcome back
To: me@litvision.org
Welcome back!
All hail the drooling muse!
Mike (the bear story guy / Dec 2004) (And Justice for all / Mar 2005)
Editor's Note: Woohoo! Fan mail! I kinda felt guilty that
the December 2007 rebirth was one of my false starts.
Maybe my critics are right about me. Anywayz.....
---------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:53:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "R.A. Rubin" <xx_xxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Roy Rubin
To: me@litvision.org, me@litvision.org
Pat,
Was working on a film short. Master disks were stolen. Back to the
drawing board. I'll have a short story, about 4000 words full sex,
violence and death soon. It's a fun read. It'll be ready in January. Are you
interested?
Roy Rubin
Editor's Note: What can i say, Roy Rubin is the freakin'
man. The guy cracks me up. I'm disappointed Prose Toad
isn't around any more. I almost met Rubin at the Philly
Zine Fest in 2005, but when he came to the LitVision table
i was walking around or taking a piss or something.
Typical!
----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:46:42 -0400
From: "Tao Lin" <xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
Subject: Re: I am ready to paypal the money
hi patrick
i am. i will draw in the books. drawings are my signature. for both books paypal me
$30. thank you patrick. if you want this paypal xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com.
tao lin
On 10/3/07, Patrick <editor2@litvision.org> wrote:
Binky Tabby,
Are you selling both you are a little bit happier than i am and Eeeeeeeeeeeee
directly? Do you have one copy of each right now that you could sign and send to
me? How much money am i going to send you?
Pat
Editor's Note: Ok so this is Tao Lin responding to an
email from me, but i wanted to include it anyway. Tao has
skillz. He scrawled satanic symbols in my poetry book.
----------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:44:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Roy Barnes" <xxxxxxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Submission Questions (LitVision)
To: editor@litvision.org
Hello:
Are you a paying market? If so, why do you talk about
paypal when the amt is "0"?
When will subs open up again?
thx, Roy
Editor's Note: Actually a lot of people are puzzled by the
obviously ironic statement that contributors will be
paypaled $0.00. This is a throwback from the early days
when LitVision actually did paypal $3.33 per contributor.
We're poor now though and i don't wanna. I just left in
the zeroes to confuse & annoy the lit mercenaries.
-------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Yul Tolbert" <xxx_xxxxxxx@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Glossy paper (again)
To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com
Do you have a lot of old glossy posters you don't need, or do you know of other
people who have a lot of old glossy posters they don't need? I'd like to use the
blank sides of them to draw my web comics on. I know it's cheap, but I think it
could work for me.
-- Yul
Editor's Note: Ahh, Yul. What a guy. If you don't know Yul
you really should. Who else would have the balls to send
out a mass email looking for old glossy posters to
scribble on the backs of? Freaking awesome. Yul i don't
have any but i hope you found some, brother. Now it's time
for our medication...
------------------------------------------
Friday, November 21, 2008 7:36 PM
From: "Roy Rubin" <xxxxxx@ptd.net>
To: "Editor Pat" <editor2@litvision.org>
Re: is the new issue out yet?
Pat, You already have my story? remember, you were going to keep it till
October. Roy Rubin
----- Original Message -----
From: Editor Pat
To: Roy Rubin
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: is the new issue out yet?
Hi Roy,The next one will be LitVision #18, 12/15/08, so if you have a story feel
free to send it along.-Pat
Editor's Note: I only put this one in as a follow-up to
the first email in this column. Ok, so i'm a senile git
too.
------------------------------------------
Thursday, November 27, 2008 4:16 PM
Re: Zekeiel, how do your biscuits grow?
From: "Zeke A. Iddon" <zeke@tittybiscuits.com>
To: "Patrick" <editor2@litvision.org>
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----
Pat,
It's been too long, my friend!
My cinematographic Indian fellows are correct - I am around. Sorry it's taken me
so long to get back to you. Well, I'm sorry it takes me so long to do anything, but
that's never going to change.
"If you wrote me within the last year, not that you would have..."
I might have done? Who the heck knows. What year is it? I know what you mean
about the spam e-mails, though, and I came to the same conclusion - if you've got
a theoretical infinite email boxes, the catch-all setting is a bitch. But if you think it
takes forever to delete them, imagine how long it take to reply to them all. The
kicker is, they still haven't sent me my penis pills.
What's my status? Let's see:
I'm 24, prefer dogs but my (hijacked) neighbour's cat is rubbing up against my leg
right now as I feed it my smoked mackerel and I'm starting to wonder, American
sports still confuse the heck out of me, enjoy nature walks also but there's nothing
to look at here 'cept concrete and an occasional hill if you travel far enough out of
town.
What else? Really got into digital graphic work, comics and painting, but as usual,
finding the time is a kick in the kidneys. In the Real Life World of Work (tm) I've
been training up to be an optician (a dispensing optician, not an optometrist - I
think the US makes more of a distinction with the difference) which I'm actually
really enjoying. Shit pay, but it's the first time I think I've ever enjoyed my day job?
That's all that matters.
Editor's Note: Sounds like Editor Zeke is doing great! I
thought i was the only one who stole cats from the
neighbors! Only the most hardcore LitVision fan will
remember Cynthia the Skinny Cat. Do you?
--------------------------------------------------
From: jon rowland <xxxxxxxxxxX@yahoo.com>
Subject:
To: patrick@litvison.org
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 1:40 PM
As you update your site, I wonder if you’d mind mentioning somewhere on it that
the archived version of Thing Street Asylum has been revised, and that anyone
interested in obtaining a hard copy of the revision (now Pioneers of Alienism and
50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum) can e-mail me at jonrowland7@yahoo.com. I’m
not ready to post the “final” version anywhere, but I’d like people to know that it
exists, and where they can get a copy, if they want one. I realize I probably won’t
have any takers, but I’d appreciate it.
It might also be interesting if you reprinted that review I e-mailed you, since it
addresses some of the material assimilated into Thing Street. Everything seems
to end up there, eventually. Like Rome, I guess. I have a hard copy of Broken
Pencil, so I can tell you the review was written by someone named Amy
Greenwood. It's probably O.K. to reprint it, as long as she gets credited.
Yeah, you probably should put some work into the site, at least if you're serious
about making a go of it. At least that's how I interpret your latest (guilt-ridden?)
communique....
Cheers,
Jon R
Editor's Note: Jon's a nice guy, do what he says.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:49 PM
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Editor's Note: This email was sent in reference to
Bukowski Never Did This, a LitVision Press book. Every few
months or so Amazon will sell one for me, but then when
they reorder they only reorder ONE copy! It's not worth
the shipping and effort for me to send one single book to
Amazon's warehouse, especially because the jerks keep
rejecting copies as "unsellable" if they have a
microscopic ding or dustflake on them. I reinstated
Bukowski Never Did This, but then the pricks ordered a
single copy again. So of course i'm going to ignore them.
I can sell my damn books on Ebay!
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