a debt owed is a debt owed

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Fri Feb 7 08:51:37 CST 1997


Andrew Hart asks
 >if you are the same thom pynchon who was a jock at KEWB radio,
 >Oakland California, in the mid 60's, what about that 150 bucks you
 >still owe me?....   you may have "forgotten" about it, but i haven't.....
 >with interest, it must be over five grand by now.......i knew you would
 >turn up sooner or later.......by the way, are you still MCing those 
 >Herman's Hermits shows?

jminnich replies: 
 > What a strange posting!  Is it possible?  I mean, just where did TRP get the
 > idea for Mucho Maas, top 40 DJ with a weakness for jailbait? Can anyone
 > confirm that there ever was a station KEWB in Oakland?  There isn't one now.
 > A-and what sort of transformation might turn KEWB into KCUF?  Herman's
 > Hermits???  Gahhhhh!  

Now isn't there a story somewhere that TRP was asked to join the 
Honours programme at Cornell but turned it down because he wanted to 
become a DJ? I seem to remember this mentioned by someone in one of 
the TRP texts I read some 11-12 years back...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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