http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64252 Mr. Bull Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:11:11 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64252 Answers: (1) Not necessarily; (2) A person with a fortuitous last name and a woman willing to accept him, semen and eggs, and the inability of anyone who might be inspired by Sam Bull's very true and very real presence in Seattle to get published. As for the true hard facts of this Mr. Bull, he now comes with a fifth-wheel trailer, a snowmobile, a generator, an outhouse, and a shovel (for when the outhouse needs to be moved). Number 1 question as to the proposition of 25 acres in the foothills: What do you do there? It seemed to me to be a ridiculous question until this I closed the sale. Then I was sort of overwhelmed by the fear that I might not be able to think of anything to do there. That I would start to go there just because I bought the land. That it would be like a trophy. Have you seen my land? I own it. These are my trees. Knock on them, real trees. That kind of thing. So what do you do with land? You build on it. You build a tree house for your kids, then you build a big lodge-like house for yourself. Then you advertise that you have a free fifth-wheel trailer and hope that someone will come haul it away, and people come out and they kick the tires, and then you explain that it hasn't been moved since you owned it and that you aren't guaranteeing anything, just a clean deal. Then you wonder if maybe you would have gotten a better response if you charged for the pleasure of hauling it away. You wished that you had more experience in the fifth-wheel trailer universe so that you would know the answer to this. Look I just don't want to get stuck with this fifth wheel trailer. Answers: (1) Not necessarily; (2) A person with a fortuitous last name and a woman willing to accept him, semen and eggs, and the inability of anyone who might be inspired by Sam Bull’s very true and very real presence in Seattle to get published. As for the true hard facts of this Mr. Bull, he now comes with a fifth-wheel trailer, a snowmobile, a generator, an outhouse, and a shovel (for when the outhouse needs to be moved). Number 1 question as to the proposition of 25 acres in the foothills: What do you do there? It seemed to me to be a ridiculous question until this I closed the sale. Then I was sort of overwhelmed by the fear that I might not be able to think of anything to do there. That I would start to go there just because I bought the land. That it would be like a trophy. Have you seen my land? I own it. These are my trees. Knock on them, real trees. That kind of thing. So what do you do with land? You build on it. You build a tree house for your kids, then you build a big lodge-like house for yourself. Then you advertise that you have a free fifth-wheel trailer and hope that someone will come haul it away, and people come out and they kick the tires, and then you explain that it hasn’t been moved since you owned it and that you aren’t guaranteeing anything, just a clean deal. Then you wonder if maybe you would have gotten a better response if you charged for the pleasure of hauling it away. You wished that you had more experience in the fifth-wheel trailer universe so that you would know the answer to this. Look I just don’t want to get stuck with this fifth wheel trailer.

]]> http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64251 loki Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:22:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64251 Where is Chris Lydon in this story-steakless in Seattle. Now Mid Summer's Night Dream. That is the question. Where is Chris Lydon in this story-steakless in Seattle. Now Mid Summer’s Night Dream. That is the question.

]]> http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64250 Potter Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:35:02 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64250 Nice writing. Nice writing.

]]> http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64249 David Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:59:59 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64249 A fine, fine question. A fine, fine question.

]]> http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64248 Brendan Wed, 10 Aug 2005 03:49:26 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/an-e-mail-from-my-friend-aj/#comment-64248 Are we just supposed to know who Sam Bull is? Or, more to the point, how is it that Sam Bull is a real person and not a character in a novel, a novel with names so absurdly indicative as to be the kind of names that only appear in novels? Are we just supposed to know who Sam Bull is? Or, more to the point, how is it that Sam Bull is a real person and not a character in a novel, a novel with names so absurdly indicative as to be the kind of names that only appear in novels?

]]>