"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:
snip So, you still can't be me. Get used to it.

I still don't want to be older, shorter and uglier.
I still wouldn't want to go through all the dental
work you need even if you could afford it, and I
sure as hell don't want to be afflicted with a
pretentious and prolix prose style. So yeah, I'm
happily accustomed to not being you.

Wow......I bet this is another one of your gonfalon better
zingers.......right?

Wolfgang
whose recovery might preclude participation in roff for a while.

Wolfgang wrote:

Hm......

Keillor, the man, may or may not bear a significant resemblance to Keillor,
the commodity. Back about fifteen years ago I went to a writers' workshop
called "The Rites of Writing" at UW, Stevens Point. In attendance was one
Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer for "New Yorker". This was at the same time,
or shortly after, Keillor's brief residence there. According to Wilkinson
(whom I and a couple of friends escorted on a whirlwind tour of Stevens
Point's hotspots one evening) Keillor was an arrogant and insufferable prick
who quickly earned the enmity of everyone else on the staff. To the best of
my knowledge, no one has ever suggested that he eats babies or sells
bootlegged copies of Nirvana's greatest hits, but.......... :)

It's not really surprising to me that he could be considered an
arrogant and insufferable prick. I forget who wrote it, but I read
someone describe him as "making a career out of smug condescension". I
thought it summed up his on-air persona very nicely.


Chuck Vance (not that there's anything wrong with that)

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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//snip//
Keillor, the man, may or may not bear a significant resemblance to
Keillor, the commodity. Back about fifteen years ago I went to a writers'
workshop called "The Rites of Writing" at UW, Stevens Point. In
attendance was one Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer for "New Yorker". This
was at the same time, or shortly after, Keillor's brief residence there.
According to Wilkinson (whom I and a couple of friends escorted on a
whirlwind tour of Stevens Point's hotspots one evening) Keillor was an
arrogant and insufferable prick who quickly earned the enmity of everyone
else on the staff. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever suggested
that he eats babies or sells bootlegged copies of Nirvana's greatest hits,
but.......... :)


Some, who in person are arrogant and insufferable pricks,
write/sing/act/paint/etc. so well that many are entertained. Others, who
appear from their writings/speakings/etc. to be arrogant and insufferable
pricks, are actually pretty good people in person.
Bob

"Bob Patton" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
...

...Keillor was an arrogant and insufferable prick who quickly earned the
enmity of everyone else on the staff....

Some, who in person are arrogant and insufferable pricks,
write/sing/act/paint/etc. so well that many are entertained.

I sometimes miss "A Prairie Home Companion" due to circumstances beyond my
control.......but not if I can help it.

Others, who appear from their writings/speakings/etc. to be arrogant and
insufferable pricks, are actually pretty good people in person.

Yah, we outnumbered him two to one......that don't mean ****!

Wolfgang
and, given the diet, he was in a weakened condition anyway. :)

"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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//snip//
Others, who appear from their writings/speakings/etc. to be arrogant and
insufferable pricks, are actually pretty good people in person.

Yah, we outnumbered him two to one......that don't mean ****!

Wolfgang
and, given the diet, he was in a weakened condition anyway. :)

The diet??? I figured it was because he was a fast-walking lawyer.

Bob
(wondering what motivates a lawyer to walk quickly)

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:28:51 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:

(snipped)

Keillor was an arrogant and insufferable prick
who quickly earned the enmity of everyone else on the staff. To the best of
my knowledge, no one has ever suggested that he eats babies or sells
bootlegged copies of Nirvana's greatest hits, but.......... :)

Wolfgang

It's the local Twin Cities opinion of everyone I've met who's known or
dealt with him, too. Some of them were sophisticated enough to
understand that the private man in the business is not the public
image, but they still didn't like the private man.


Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli
email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Wolfgang wrote:

snip So, you still can't be me. Get used to it.


I still don't want to be older, shorter and uglier.
I still wouldn't want to go through all the dental
work you need even if you could afford it, and I
sure as hell don't want to be afflicted with a
pretentious and prolix prose style. So yeah, I'm
happily accustomed to not being you.


Aren't you sometimes tempted to pass along second-hand gossip as God's
Truth, under the pretext of advertising your attendance at a "Writer's
Workshop"?

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Wolfgang wrote:

I sometimes miss "A Prairie Home Companion" due to circumstances beyond my
control.......but not if I can help it.

Ironically, I listen to it on an almost weekly basis. I've found it
to be a pleasant background for puttering around in the "shop". (Except
for the "joke show"; I can't stomach that one.)

But that doesn't stop me from thinking he's overly smug and
condescending. :-)


Chuck Vance

"rw" wrote in message
m...

Aren't you sometimes tempted to pass along second-hand gossip as God's
Truth, under the pretext of advertising your attendance at a "Writer's
Workshop"?

Don't bother. ALL of my observations here are God's Truth. Any
disagreement is just plain wrong......and merely serves to make the author
look stupid. Agreement, needless to say, is superfluous......inviting
comparison with a tool.

Wouldn't you agree?

Wolfgang
who considers stevie one of his best (because most consistent) creations.

On 8/17/05 9:12 AM, in article , "Conan The
Librarian" wrote:

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

The Tribune has started running a Garrison Keillor
piece once a week. This one's pretty funny.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/o...0,6563719.stor
y

Thanks for the link. Pretty good stuff, except for the
stereotypical picture of the librarian with a bun, sensible shoes, etc.

Boy are YOU going to be surprised when you make it to a clave...

:-)


From the article:

If we English majors would make our voices heard and flood Congress
with angry sonnets

Claspy, get on it right away.

Thank goodness I'm on vacation, this is going to take some time...

B