Come home, Leona--all is forgiven, and Friday is still
Clam Night!--Candice
>Thanks for this -- it brought to my eyes tears of nostalgia for my homeland.
>
>Leona
>
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>> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:01:33 -0400 (EDT)
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: a question
>>
>>>> "[ ] is the crudest user of transparent hype in the poetry business."
>>
>>> I'll snatch that accolade damn it. Genuinely I would love to.
>>
>>
>> How about a snatch of this:
>>
>> "Keston Sutherland is a 'funky little...modern, everyday UK poet...
>> not-too-clever, yet quite deep...'"?
>>
>>
>> I was in a Howard Johnson's ["family restaurant"] recently and found
>> the chain celebrating its 75th anniversary (remember the "One Flavor"
>> Howard Johnson's in _Blazing Saddles_?) with special placements that
>> feature brief testimonials from aficianados all over the US.
>>
>> Some of these Ho-Jo blurbs would also make for folksy book-cover hype:
>>
>> "The kids, now 29-31, still talk about it!"
>>
>> "Pearl said add 6 more and all just as great!"
>>
>> "Whether we went with friends or alone, we always finished
>> with a dish of ice cream, or perhaps a cone."
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Candice
>>
>> P.S. There's a new 75th-anniversary sandwich, too: Pilgrim's Pride
>> (turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce wrapped up together in "a
>> flour tortilla."
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