ENOUGH With the OBA Thing Now, Please!

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 17:07:48 CDT 2009


Last night on PBS in NYC Neil Young's American Masters episode was on.
 Very Cool Dude.

On Saturday, August 15, 2009, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ooh.  I once went to a Neil Young concert in Seattle that some genius
> with a profound capacity for verbal communication over great distances
> continually disrupted by alerting the crowd repeatedly that, "It's the
> real Neil!"  Often in the middle of a song.  I may not be able to use
> either abbreviation now and have stick to the impersonal, Pynchon.
>
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Livingston"
>> <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> To: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> Cc: <page at quesnelbc.com>; <alicewellintown at gmail.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: ENOUGH With the OBA Thing Now, Please!
>>
>>
>>> Well, all right.  But how about TRP?  Can we still call him TRP?
>>
>> I once asked why that designation could be used when he seemed to prefer to
>> leave out his middle initial, and was told it stood for The Real Pynchon.
>>
>> P.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> any book by OBA as beaching reading
>>>>
>>>> Just every time it's used, this OBA thing is like nails down a blackboard
>>>> for me. Can we quit it now?
>>>>
>>>>
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