"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"jeff" wrote in message
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enjoyable...as usual.

Were I a "writer," or did I aspire to being one, I would despair over the
impossibility of making the reportage as enjoyable as the trip. It was a
wonderful weekend, filled with enough events and (perhaps more
importantly) non-events to fill a book (which it will not) and a photo
album (which it did).

Oddly enough, not the trip itself, but at least the timing, was inspired
in part by a truly dreadful writer. Norbert Blei was just another name
I'd heard off and on over the years, just another "regional" writer (an
apt enough description in this instance whatever one may feel about it in
general) who happened to specialize in Door County. I'd been thinking
about this trip for a while....for several years, actually.....ever since
John (goddamn the pusher-man) introduced me to kayaking in Penns Creek.
So, falling prey (however briefly) to an uncharacteristic streak of
self-discipline, I was working my way methodically through one of the "to
be read" stacks about a week and a half ago when what should pop up on the
top but Blei's "Door to Door," an unconscionably self absorbed and
self-satisfied orgy of smug and pretentious gruel about "Art," "artists,"
(including, not a bit surprisingly) "WRITERS," misogyny, nascent "New-Age"
pop-crap, Door County "characters," Santa Fe, sublimated (if only barely)
lust for one's best friend's wife, Jungian blather, broadcast wholesale
contempt........well the list goes on and on.. Pure, unadulterated ****.
Amazing. Got great critical reviews from people who certainly knew
better.......even in 1985.

Anyway, Becky's got the house up for sale......got a showing.......I need
to be gone Sunday. O.k., no problem.

Where to go?

Hm........

thanks.

You're welcome.

Wolfgang


....you gotta work Monday?

john