Honk.

Someone told me about your latest issue online.

[Trumpeter Swan Society's Martha Jordan finds Emily too unwieldy to use as a bicycle horn.]

Perhaps you did not see the mounting bracket I had installed on my mountain bike.

Martha Jordan
marthaj@swansociety.org
www.swansociety.org

Emily saw it, which might explain that look of panic.

-Ed

Do they Drink Red Wine or Hi-C ?

Dear Get Lost:

I always enjoy your verbal antics. I stayed quite near the Maubert Metro on my last trip to Paris and I am at this very moment completing French subtitles for a short film I hope to enter in Cannes and so I am clearly more than an expert on
(at least) the following [from "In Seine In Paris" June 2000]:

" ..the rose windows, which have looked down on congregations for 700 years, and feel suddenly part of gigantic and intimate history. Where in America would you find such a structure, not to mention an actual castrato?"

So, to answer your questions, I used to live two blocks from Riverside Church and four from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and both are bigger than Notre Dame with stained glass to spare. As for the castrati, about four blocks west of my current position, one may take their choice of one for hire, only we call them post-op transexuals.

If I can help you with anything else, feel free to drop me a line.

-Eric Solstein, NYC

Like Pittsburgh with Bigger Laughs...

Yours is more fun to read than this:
www.roadsidemagazine.com/

But somehow they managed to get on NPR. Demand a recount!

- Philip Johns, Swarthmore

Dear Phillip -

Roadside Magazine is a nice web site, with an actual mission and print magazine associated with it. We do have to look askance at anyone who might use the words "Pittsburgh" and "Pastiche" together in a sentence but such a dedication to diners redeems them.

We agree that as a publication we are mostly overlooked except by a small group of intelligent & highly discriminating readers, but all it takes is one Big Break like the one Roadside Magazine got on National Public Radio. We are breathlessly lighting Feng Shui candles, chanting, meditating, and channelling Ramtha in hopes of a Webby nomination in a few weeks.

Of course, what does it all mean? Would such exposure equate to dollars and cents without a product to sell? Is it enough to just be witty and charming? We'd spend a lot of time considering such things, but there are so many lounges to review, so many boats to smuggle...

Here's hoping.

- Your Editor