Holy is the Firm?

[Ted Samsel]

Steely sez:
> 
> John Sutherland sez:
> 
> >Yeah, there was a big to-do about Dillard insulting our local honor in
> >The Seattle Times a couple of months back.  (Slow news town, what can I
> >say?)  Turns out she was, uh, kidding.  We're gonna tie her down and
> >make her wear a plaid flannel nursing gown anyway, if she ever shows up
> >again.
> 
> Well, according to the Oregonian this morning, she apologized, sent a photo
> of herself to the local fishwrap with two bandaides crossing her mouth and
> belatedly retracted her bizarre statements, but did not say she
> was--ahem--"kidding."
> 
> Word is Annie divorced the poet Richard Dillard, after her moment in the
> sun, following publication of Pilgrim at Tinkle (just kidding) Creek,
> because he wasn't up in her intellectual statosphere and kept asking her to
> help out in the garden. Annie said, Damnit, Richard, I'm thinking. Can't
> the nurse mammie weed the Swiss char?

Swiss Char? Have they been introduced into the rivers of Old Virginny? 
I'd better go call the old boys at the Dept of Game and Inland Fisheries
at the Anadromous Zone. What size fish ladder do they take?

But back to Dillard. A writer friend of mine in the mid-west told me
that Annie Tinkle's(nope!).. er Annie's view of Tinker Creek was
out of the Dillard's picture window in their "exclusive" rancher
in the subdivision up the holler.

Hollins has bred some weird ducks. Some of them are my friends.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net
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