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Tuesday 2 January 2024
Detterling when are we going to see your review of Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworth's?
Methinks it will be, like your memoirs, published posthumously.
I am working my way through a to-do list with 15 items on it [including editing the Spring Edition of a music society magazine] and reviewing your booklet is number 16. So far, using the "surprise me" facility on the sample menu I have viewed about a dozen pages of it, and, surprise, surprise, so far it looks like scissors-and-pasted, incoherent, pretentious and meaningless shit.
But I will buy a copy soon, read it, review it on Amazon and on here and then return it - I have not the slightest intention of putting a penny in the pocket of a duplicitous bastard like you.
Moreover, Gene, what do you have to say about this?
Ten minutes' research on the internet reveals that the cover photograph of "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths" is in fact a picture copied from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica of one Margaret Murie, (born August 18, 1902, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died October 19, 2003, Moose, Wyoming).
Her Britannica entry reads, in part:
"Ms Murie was an American naturalist, conservationist, and writer who was a central contributor in efforts to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which earned her the popular title “grandmother of the conservation movement.”
When Murie was a young girl, her family moved from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, where her stepfather had been appointed an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1924 she became the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now the University of Alaska, Fairbanks), earning a degree in business administration. She married Olaus Murie that same year. Olaus was then working for the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey (from 1940 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) in Fairbanks, and Mardy, as she was known to her friends and family, joined him on a 550-mile (885-km), eight-month-long expedition to study caribou in Alaska’s Brooks Range, a journey they often referred to as their honeymoon."
I am in the process of researching contact details for her three children, Martin, Joanne and Don Murie. I am sure that they will be interested to know that a photograph of their mother, stolen from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is now being used - without, I am sure, any permission from the family - as the cover photograph of your booklet, Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths.
And Gene, how do you account for the fact that, 36 hours after Detterling pointed out that the cover photograph of "Granny Barkes" on your booklet "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths", the entire print run of the booklet had been recalled, pulped, issued with a new cover photograph and reprinted for the revised advertisement on Amazon?
Something very suspicious is going on. At any rate, we will soon know. Detterling has ordered a copy of "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths" which is promised for delivery by 2200 on January 11th.
A busy family weekend beckons for Detterling, so the review will be posted on this blog next Monday.
I am working my way through a to-do list with 15 items on it [including editing the Spring Edition of a music society magazine] and reviewing your booklet is number 16. So far, using the "surprise me" facility on the sample menu I have viewed about a dozen pages of it, and, surprise, surprise, so far it looks like scissors-and-pasted, incoherent, pretentious and meaningless shit.
ReplyDeleteBut I will buy a copy soon, read it, review it on Amazon and on here and then return it - I have not the slightest intention of putting a penny in the pocket of a duplicitous bastard like you.
Moreover, Gene, what do you have to say about this?
ReplyDeleteTen minutes' research on the internet reveals that the cover photograph of "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths" is in fact a picture copied from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica of one Margaret Murie, (born August 18, 1902, Seattle, Washington, U.S.—died October 19, 2003, Moose, Wyoming).
Her Britannica entry reads, in part:
"Ms Murie was an American naturalist, conservationist, and writer who was a central contributor in efforts to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which earned her the popular title “grandmother of the conservation movement.”
When Murie was a young girl, her family moved from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, where her stepfather had been appointed an assistant U.S. attorney. In 1924 she became the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (now the University of Alaska, Fairbanks), earning a degree in business administration. She married Olaus Murie that same year. Olaus was then working for the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey (from 1940 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) in Fairbanks, and Mardy, as she was known to her friends and family, joined him on a 550-mile (885-km), eight-month-long expedition to study caribou in Alaska’s Brooks Range, a journey they often referred to as their honeymoon."
I am in the process of researching contact details for her three children, Martin, Joanne and Don Murie. I am sure that they will be interested to know that a photograph of their mother, stolen from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is now being used - without, I am sure, any permission from the family - as the cover photograph of your booklet, Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths.
I wonder what they will make of this piracy?
"Detterling when are we going to see your review of Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworth's?
ReplyDeleteMethinks it will be, like your memoirs, published posthumously.
Tee! Hee! Hee!"
Oh! Gene you are a one! You really know how to put the boot in!
Mr & Mrs Anonymous
Torquay
Only wankers ever use the word "methinks".
DeleteCase in point.
And Gene, how do you account for the fact that, 36 hours after Detterling pointed out that the cover photograph of "Granny Barkes" on your booklet "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths", the entire print run of the booklet had been recalled, pulped, issued with a new cover photograph and reprinted for the revised advertisement on Amazon?
ReplyDeleteSomething very suspicious is going on. At any rate, we will soon know. Detterling has ordered a copy of "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths" which is promised for delivery by 2200 on January 11th.
A busy family weekend beckons for Detterling, so the review will be posted on this blog next Monday.
Gary Bandall.