Showing a little love for Putnam Weekley

originally posted by MLipton:

You are a voice of sanity in a world spinning out of control.
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Mark,

Thanks for resisting the obvious "spinning out of cone-trol" pun. I am weak. In so many ways.

Cheers,

Dave
 
Sorry about the incoherent post last. My other computer divorced me and it insists on twisting my messages into unflattering Norwegian babble.

Now my password has been benevolently restored to my main computer - thanks politburo - and I'm quite drunk on Wild Turkey manhattans, 2008 Les Heretiques and 2006 "Este" de Bodegas Alto Almanzora. The latter I used to make a nice chicken organ burrito only a few minutes ago. 2008 Heretiques is bursting with raw vine fruit as expected.

So thanks for the love. It means a lot to me coming from this proximate group.

I have decided for the time being to stay in Detroit. I love this city, I don't have any reliable alternatives, and I think I may be able to make a living here. Once upon a time I travelled, but now I want to know one place completely. It's full of stories. More to come, I hope.
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:

I have decided for the time being to stay in Detroit. I love this city
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Oh, sure. Now that you are a Big Star you forget all about the little boroughs like Brooklyn. I knew it all along.

:)

Anyway, glad things are going cool for you.
 
I have decided for the time being to stay in Detroit. I love this city, I don't have any reliable alternatives, and I think I may be able to make a living here. Once upon a time I travelled, but now I want to know one place completely. It's full of stories. More to come, I hope.
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Huzzah! I'm glad you decided to stay instead of taking the easy way out by traveling to lands of the Sun or the Confederacy: they have enough people moving there that you would be lost in a crowd of hipster-be-jebusses. Now you can be your own man and call your own shots.

Mr. Mark - another rust belt survivor
 
originally posted by MLipton:
[...]call themselves "Assyrians" and have their own churches and Aramaic language newspapers. My first encounter with them, when I lived in Modesto, left me bemused as I'd previously considered the Assyrians to be a civilization of historical interest only (and with funky beard stylings).
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Don't let's make too much of them. Apparently some "Assyrians" have become rich in the West (yes, spelled with a big W - funny thing about them changing from an east Semitic to a west Semitic language, too...). Bad jokes aside, despite some rather startling genealogical claims, some "modern" "Assyrians" really have financed some very important projects in the actual field of Assyriology, like the State Archives of Assyria (Neo-Assyrian texts). Besides, modern Aramaic languages are quite intriguing.
 
originally posted by Otto Nieminen:

Don't let's make too much of them. Apparently some "Assyrians" have become rich in the West (yes, spelled with a big W - funny thing about them changing from an east Semitic to a west Semitic language, too...). Bad jokes aside, despite some rather startling genealogical claims, some "modern" "Assyrians" really have financed some very important projects in the actual field of Assyriology, like the State Archives of Assyria (Neo-Assyrian texts). Besides, modern Aramaic languages are quite intriguing.
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I'm glad to hear that, Otto. As you might surmise from my description, the "Assyrians" of California were quite wealthy on the whole, having made their fortunes growing and selling almonds. They were also, as one might imagine, quite proud of their heritage and anxious that their culture and language not be lost amidst the vast "melting pot" of the American West.

Mark Lipton
 
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