This is a total aside. For some reason I thought I mentioned that I was reading a book by a guy who was a friend in college, but I don't see it here so it must have been elsewhere. Anyway, he and I were in a few creative writing classes together before he dropped out of UM and went back to California. My fondest memory was when he was asked by
Lester Goran to read his autobiographical piece to the class, and every third word started with F and ran four letters.
Anyway, so I saw his name in the Tidewater Community College bookstore on a novel,
Boonville, read it, and was checking today to see if there's anything else out there by him, and it turns out the guy married into a fortune. A true fortune. Like married-to-the-dead-co-founder-of-Oracle-oh-my-gosh fortune.
Here's a picture of
the house he and his spouse built in Pacific Heights a few years back:
Ain't that a kick in the head.
Ain't that a kick in the head.
wow - it's about a foul mouthed guy who inherited his way from FL to Northern Cal - very creative!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first picked up the book, I was impressed to see that he'd swung a blurb from Norman Mailer. Something tells me now it may have been his non-writing connections that scored that one.
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