Re: blurbs

I shall make a self-indulgent aside because there is no one here to stop me. My grandma used to live in San Miguel, and when I was fifteen or so I made the acquaintance of several of these elderly and two-dimensional creatures. One of them explained to me over breakfast that the Aztecs knew perfectly well that Hernan Cortez was not actually some deity, but rather just a European operating on various proto-imperialist and early-stage capitalist paradigms, and that Montezuma was simply being nice when he allowed the Spaniard to seize control of the country and go up to big chunks of gold and lick them or whatever it was that you do with gold; the Aztecs as a whole, she asserted, simply felt sorry for these confused and evil Spaniards. On another occasion, two of these obsolete old crones argued over whether or not one can find orange cats in Rome; one them claimed that Rome has no orange cats at all, and the other claimed to have owned one herself while living in that very city. One group of them eventually had another other group arrested over a dispute involving control of the local library. If only there were a metaphor in there somewhere.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll see what I can do regarding getting blurbs. Drew might have better luck at getting Matt Taibbi's attention than I; he hasn't responded to my e-mail. I'm working on getting excerpts in Gawker, Mother Jones, Atlantic Wire, and the deputy editor of New York Observer has asked me to come meet with him on Wednesday to discuss something along those lines for them (or perhaps a series of pieces, I guess; can't imagine why he'd want to meet over one piece). Got a few other prospects as well. Will see who else might be interested in providing blurbs as well.

The Enrique's girl's crib line can be taken out if you'd like; it was meant as a riff on the cops finding what's in the glove compartment, "Enrique's girl's crib" being the sort of place where one might be likely to use such a thing.

If it hasn't gone to the typesetter yet, I'd like to remove a couple short segments from the book; will e-mail you with those proposed removals in a bit.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Rachel Trusheim <rachel@sterlingandross.com> wrote:

Hi Barrett,

Two things:

1. Do you have any blurbs you can garner from your buddies in the print media, et. al? Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone and the like?
2. I'm a little curious if the last line/reference in an early paragraph is understandable. What was the original thought with that reference?

The problem with extrapolation is that it is entirely necessary. When we drive a carI guess it has two steering wheelswe drive certain speed in a certain direction. A tree is straight ahead. We extrapolate that, if we are to continue on our present course, we will hit that tree and then the cops will come and they'll probably find what we've got stashed in the glove compartment. But having extrapolated this tree-hitting scenario from our present course, we will probably just turn the car a bit so that we are no longer headed for this problematic tree. Perhaps we will get back on the highway, where there are considerably fewer trees to hit, but at any rate we have in this case successfully used the art of extrapolation to avoid hitting the tree and thereby we are more likely to successfully make it to our destination, which is Enrique's girl's crib.

Thanks!
Rachel

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