tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post424866453571821005..comments2023-08-27T19:42:56.168-07:00Comments on the <p><b>NEW PALS CLUB</b> </p><p>Web-Log</p>: O'RourkeKip Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post-43002754312900298262015-09-30T11:32:54.989-07:002015-09-30T11:32:54.989-07:00In fact, I've included that Smith cutting in t...In fact, I've included that Smith cutting in the blog before. <a href="http://kipwblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-memory-my-prepared-cutting-for.html" rel="nofollow">Here it is.</a>Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post-63479759464787797162015-09-30T11:30:26.258-07:002015-09-30T11:30:26.258-07:00I wouldn't have minded seeing that. To me, thi...I wouldn't have minded seeing that. To me, this is in the tradition of Mark Twain and riverboat bragging, though in its present context, it's the ugly American. <br /><br />I generally audition with a cutting from an H. Allen Smith novel, <i>Mr. Zip</i>, which is about a movie cowboy, not Manic Mailman. It also shows up as an excerpt, "Slanthead Elder Reminisces," in <i>The Best of H. Allen Smith</i>. "There ain't no West!…"Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post-10673078318567514282015-09-30T09:22:47.239-07:002015-09-30T09:22:47.239-07:00I "performed" that passage in an "O...I "performed" that passage in an "Oral Interpretation of Literature" class, circa 1989. I don't know if I knew how to pronounce Cap d'Antibes correctly. <br /><br />The grad student teaching this was from the theater department and the definition of literature included almost anything, included a monologue from "The Terminator". I had most of O'Rourkes books that could be had at the time, and Holidays in Hell was the latest, so it was a bit lazy on my part. I tried to pull off a foaming at the mouth ugly American. <br /><br />R.I.P. Funny P.J. Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196867978276270167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post-46790969528680850312015-03-31T12:18:18.055-07:002015-03-31T12:18:18.055-07:00Ken, I replied over at your one-pager blog, in the...Ken, I replied over at your one-pager blog, in the one about the escaped lunatic. Kip Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12751319031224838771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646139.post-28992790992909357212015-03-31T11:07:28.953-07:002015-03-31T11:07:28.953-07:00Hi Kip. I tried to comment on an earlier post of ...Hi Kip. I tried to comment on an earlier post of yours but somehow did not succeed. Maybe I am a robot. Totally off-topic here but I don't have your email. Would you be interested in drawing a one-page six-panel gag strip from a script of mine? I have been writing them occasionally and roping other artists into drawing them for me. Take a look at http://1-pagers.blogspot.com/ and let me know <br />KDV- <br />nenslo at yahoo dot comnenslohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499029976921794308noreply@blogger.com