tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post8596068167110864463..comments2024-03-29T05:44:08.923-07:00Comments on Diary of a Fat Slob: Nine lettersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-40785779879499718692022-12-09T12:46:54.852-08:002022-12-09T12:46:54.852-08:00I haven't heard that they moved to Canada or F...I haven't heard that they moved to Canada or France. <br /><br />jjohnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-53614575176959715102022-12-08T15:45:28.039-08:002022-12-08T15:45:28.039-08:00Wham-O — still an American company, ain't it?Wham-O — still an American company, ain't it? Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-91105631926532885142022-12-08T14:06:27.050-08:002022-12-08T14:06:27.050-08:00I'm old enough, but wasn't bicoastal when ...I'm old enough, but wasn't bicoastal when I was eight, the year Frisbie closed. I think somebody bought the name from a Frisbie descendent, but it's not the same. <br /><br />It's a cautionary tale of family business and corporate greed. I used Wham-O products as a young man, much to my neighbors' displeasure, but I didn't know who they were. I know now.<br /><br />jtbjohnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-76691365599956683582022-12-08T08:53:38.057-08:002022-12-08T08:53:38.057-08:00They stopped making pies, as I recall.
Are you o...They stopped making pies, as I recall. <br /><br />Are you old enough to remember the pies, not just the tins?Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-19726261704214820052022-12-07T21:55:32.570-08:002022-12-07T21:55:32.570-08:00Anything that starts small and is a good idea will...Anything that starts small and is a good idea will get supersized, and ultimately corporatized. Some people think that's progress; it rarely is. See also: The Frisbie Pie Company.<br /><br />Johnjohnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-26885152437710334702022-12-07T20:08:00.721-08:002022-12-07T20:08:00.721-08:00Zines were my life back then, and the whole phenom...Zines were my life back then, and the whole phenomenon was about a voice for little people. It got on my nerves when not-so-little people like Kennedy and a few others posed as little people, "Hey, I did a zine!"<br /><br />If the Lisa Carver you mention is Lisa Suckdog, it's a controversy unknown to me.<br /><br />A few people from the old days told me many years ago that Teal Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-35752203898961357492022-12-07T17:51:27.159-08:002022-12-07T17:51:27.159-08:00Also your comments about "Pagan Kennedy"...Also your comments about "Pagan Kennedy" were right on. She's just another privileged interloper like a lot of big names at the time (Lisa Carver, et al).<br /><br />Were you aware of the whole Teal Triggs debacle a few years ago?Claude Reignsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-26896568519357858562022-12-07T14:20:58.021-08:002022-12-07T14:20:58.021-08:00J-Man is a complicated dude, but a very good write...J-Man is a complicated dude, but a very good writer. We were in touch briefly, a year or so ago...Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-69032411677933178352022-12-07T14:00:07.690-08:002022-12-07T14:00:07.690-08:00. . . and the democratization of media sounded lik.... . . and the democratization of media sounded like such a good idea. <br /><br />jtbjohnthebasketnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-90660096854411771622022-12-07T13:26:23.863-08:002022-12-07T13:26:23.863-08:00I think the J-Man was the finest writer in "z...I think the J-Man was the finest writer in "zines."<br /><br />In a just world he'd be publishing a new novel every year instead of working in a corrections facility and posting about college sports on Twitter. But no, we get semi-literate housewives writing vampire fanfic and endless Iowa Writers Workshop graduates shilling their turgid upper class reveries to the New Yorker and Claude Reignsnoreply@blogger.com