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[Bob Norton]

Yeah, I read it. Wish I hadn't. It was offensive, snotty, condescending and
filled with serious factual errors that ten minutes of halfassed research
would have revealed. In other words, the archtypical Salon article.

As a long time dulcimer player I have a debt to Dick Fariña. I miss him
for a lot of reasons, musical and literary, but right now I miss him most
of all because if he were still among us this two-bit scribbler, David
Bowman, would be picking his teeth out of his turds for a week.

>From: "Derek C. Maus" <dmaus at email.unc.edu>
>Subject: Anybody else read Salon yet today?
>
>From an article about a forthcoming release of Richard and Mimi Farina's
>music (http://www.salon.com/ent/music/review/1999/10/13/farina/index.html)

>
>"As for Farina's connection with Pynchon, the latter dedicated "Gravity's
>Rainbow" to his dead friend. Reportedly a double biography of Farina and
>Dylan is in the works that documents a romance between Pynchon and
>Farina's widow. As for Mimi herself, she's made several folk records over
>the past 30 years, but none is worth finding.  Together, however, they had
>something that still reverberates, 33 years after his death."