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September 19, 2006

Mencken Quote

Came across this quote today--and yes, it's real:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

— H. L. Mencken

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September 10, 2006

Animated Film

Got a call on Friday from my agent, Arielle Eckstutt. It seems that an animation company in Scotland, Red Kite Animation, is interested in making a short animated film based on my story "A Plate of Peas." It would be a low budget affair, probably little or no money for me, but how cool! What a howler it would be to have an animated version of that story. And the company does a lot of cool stuff, as you can see on their website. More on this as it happens.

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September 06, 2006

Updates Updates

Harper Collins and Reader's Digest have struck a deal that may result in a Reader's Digest edition of The Greatest Stories Never Told. As I understand it, the new book would include all the stories from my first two books with full color illustrations. It would come out in 2008 and be sold via direct mail. First, however, they are doing some test marketing this fall to make sure they want to go ahead with it.

Norman Mark called me today. He's a radio host that I have known since my days in Chicago. He lives in Palm Springs, California now, and I've been on his Saturday morning radio show there several times. Now he has a nationally syndicated show that he's doing with his wife Grace two hours a day, and he's asked me to be on September 21 at 3PM ET. Naturally I said yes. The show is syndicated is on a network called EBN I don't know what stations it is on, or how many, but there's a link to listen live on their website.

Working hard on the President's book...I spend the first 2-3 hours of every day on it, and am making good progress. Came across a great political cartoon from 1840 today that ties Martin van Buren in with the phrase O.K., which is the subject of one of my stories. Yay!

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