Re: RE: now Billy's greed, was If you have already seen this...

I'm certainly impressed!

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna
Sent: 7/3/2004 8:07:11 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: RE: [CHAT] now Billy's greed, was If you have already seen  this...

> Hey Jim-- that's pretty cool...
> 
> Wouldn't mind seeing a few of them.... but your right, the others would
> not interest many.
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> > On Thursday, July 1, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Donna wrote:
> > 
> > > So what kinda of books did you write Jim...\
> > >
> > 
> > > Donna
> > >
> > Mostly the kind that would bore the socks off anyone who was not into
> > the subject. For the National Academy of Sciences I wrote books about
> > evaluating health care, an analysis of health care received by
> children
> > in a variety of different settings, an analysis of infant mortality,
> an
> > analysis of how federal research dollars are allocated among large and
> > small, pubic and private, universities and corporations; for the
> > Investor Responsibility Research Center I wrote analyses [two books]
> on
> > how institutional investors voted on investor-sponsored corporate
> > governance questions at corporation annual meetings; for the USDA
> > Forest Service and the USDI Bureau of Reclamation,
> > pesticide safety manuals... the list goes on and includes a briefly
> > popular textbook on HMOs.
> > 
> > That's just the book part. I also wrote three radio shows per week for
> > four years. Many chapters of text books, and lots of other stuff. The
> > most fun things I wrote were a series of op-ed page essays about the
> > blue of wild chicory flowers, the time my favorite cow broke a horn
> and
> > nearly bled to death, and what it's like to be a midwife when a prized
> > ewe is having a breech birth.
> > 
> > Wanta know more? I started writing poems when very young and by the
> > time I finally got to university, was publishing a lot of them. Masses
> > & Mainstream [the old commie monthly] called me the best [got that?
> > BEST! What an enormous overstatement that was!] poet of the Beat
> > Generation. Wasn't true; didn't work. There were a few persons ahead
> of
> > me. The first book my poems were published in was titled "Four New
> > Poets." Besides myself, they were Richard Brautigan [author of "Trout
> > Fishing in America" and other artistically and commercially successful
> > works], Martin Hoberman {who disappeared in Mexico before the book was
> > published], and Carl Larsen, who went on to write syndicated newspaper
> > columns and essentially silly books, like "Even the Dog Won't Eat My
> > Meatloaf."
> > 
> > > And is there anything you haven't done?
> > 
> > Yeah. I haven't been abducted by a UFO and, you know, probed...
> > 
> > >
> > >> About 2 years after I finished the second book, the National
> Academy
> > > of
> > >> Sciences hired me to write a couple of books for them.
> > >
> > >
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.0 N, 82.4
> > Zone 10a
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