Re: From Barrett Brown
Subject: Re: From Barrett Brown
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 12/15/09, 21:38
To: Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com>

Groovy; I actually haven't written anything for them or HuffPo for the last month or so because I've been otherwise engaged with the book and a bunch of other new stuff that's popped up - this editor/publisher of an online magazine I used to write for just moved into my place as he needed a room after having gotten thrown out of this fashion model party pad by the fellow who was paying for it, so now we're running the damned thing out of my apartment and I'm suddenly assistant editor. I'm about to throw an excerpt up at both T/S and HuffPo now that my book is available for pre-order, though.

Speaking of which, would you be willing to give me a blurb for the back cover if I sent you two chapters of the book-in-progress?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Charles Johnson <charles@littlegreenfootballs.com> wrote:
You're a very evil person. I like that. I am too.

McCain is his own worst enemy. He probably won't be able to resist the temptation to dig deeper into the hole.

By the way, I'm about to sign the contract for TrueSlant.

CJ




On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:



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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Subject: From Barrett Brown
To: r.s.mccain@att.net


Sir-

In the open letter you wrote to me a while back, you mentioned that people rarely go to the trouble of contacting you before attacking you. As I just mentioned in a comment I left at your blog, I am including a chapter on you in my upcoming book, which is set for an April release. If you would like to address any of the things that I or Johnson have written about you so far, you are free to do so, and any such explanations will be printed verbatim in that chapter, no matter what they may be (assuming it totals less than 2,000 words). You are even free to attack me if you wish. Let me know if this interests you.

In addition to the various items that have already been discussed by myself and others, the chapter will revolve largely around an incident that I have yet to mention publicly and which involves the article you composed in 2002 regarding Jonathan Farley, as well as the activities in which you were otherwise engaged at the time in which you wrote that particular piece.

Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY