Gulp

[Paul Mackin]

On Apr 1, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:

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> It is with some trepidation that I post to this list. The last time  
> I was on this list was about 12 years ago, pre M&D. My sig then was  
> grip at netcom.com. Netcom has long bit the dust and "grip" has  
> settled into a nice retirement home at speakeasy.net. I doubt  
> anyone from those somewhat less  than halcyon days is still on the  
> list which was run out of a university in southern California  
> (Pomona?) if i remember and had, interestingly, given the name  
> Pomona, many pomo adherents. (Not to be insulting to post  
> modernists, if any, on the list, but that was the term batted about.)

That would have been about 1995 and as I recall the p-list was then  
"owned" by Jody Keith Gilbert out of Simon Frasier University in  
British Columbia, Canada.

Remember Kooperman. He was in  his final days.

Susan Danowitz was still around.

Not many from those days are still with us.

P.


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> Joining the list now is like one of those nightmares where one is  
> back in college and realizes one has been skipping a class for  
> weeks and it's time for the final exam and one can't remember  
> exactly where the class met or what time the exam was and can't  
> even seem to find the building in which one seems to recall  
> attending the first class meeting...bleh.
>
> Okay. I guess I should start by reading the damned book which I  
> bought when it first came out but which is setting by my bed,  
> unread. I'm almost afraid to start it. Maybe it's because I'm  
> afraid it will be like M&D, a bitter disappointment. But enough of  
> that.
>
> Hello from San Jose. I'll have some catching up to do and may not  
> post for a while, but the snippets I have read have generated  
> enough interest to get me to put reading Mr. P's latest on my list  
> along with doing my taxes and other sundry items.
>
> Lawrence, nee grip at netcom.com