LA WEEKLY

[mexico at worlds.net]

>   Okay.
>        So where is a copy of the LA WEEKLY article about the Tinasky
>Letters? Been to their Web Site, no archives. Couldn't find it in the LA
>Library. The local Tower Books heard a rumor that I was looking for it and
>pitched it yesterday, right before the dumpster got emptied.

WASTE not, want not. THEY got it. THEY got 'em all. THEY tried to get mine
but I stopped them with some apricot pudding. THEY hate that stuff.

>TRP's editor has moved to Henry Holt.
So has TRP; Allegedly, the new book will be done by HH. (If THEY don't stop
publication, that is...

>Rumors fly about the next book.
I've seen it; it's about THEM.

>On Holt's spring list is a new novel by Michael Ventura.
>  The agent is Melanie Jackson
>On Holt's spring list is a new novel by Steve Erickson.
>  The agent is Melanie Jackson
>One of the editors at LA Weekly is Michael Ventura.
>Another name on the masthead of LA Weekly is Steve Erickson.

Harlan Ellison used to write for the Weekly, didn't he? He's talked to
Pynchon, I think. Tried to print a story in the DANGEROUS VISIONS
anthology, but P said it wasn't worthy.

>Oh good heavens. Any help would be appreciated (take that as you may).
If you're in the Puget Sound area, try the Seattle Menatl Health Clinic.
They've helped me with this stuff. (But don't let them give you the
shock... that's what THEY wanted them to do to me. But I fooled THEM! I ate
spinach after & it fixed my brain. No more voices.)



cal mcinvale
mexico at worlds.net
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My old addiction changed the wiring in my brain
So that when it turns the switches
then I am not the same.
                  --David Wilcox,
                  "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song"