jay lake wrote it s official i m a failure just finished listening to one of my high school classmates being interviewed on npr about her new film that she wrote and directed based on her recent successful book do i have a film out no do i have a successful book no me i spent nine months this year on the dole becky was off in hollywood NUMBER those of us who are envious of your success as a writer and artist might find this a bit hard to understand NUMBER once when forced to mix with a wife s associate s french husband who spent most of his time blowing his horn about how he had wined and dined and hung out with the famous and wonderful i became progressively more and more jethro like until i was using phrases like heehaw y all you done talked to him my counterpart never noticed my evolutionary decline even as hair sprouted from my knuckles my forehead contracted my eyebrows merged and i started grunting fortunately my wife intervened and i was prevented from doing my moonwatcher imitation with the chicken bones left from dinner regression is a wonderful curative rickk no truth to the rumour i scratched my armpit to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 