Gwen's clown story reading was going to be on the radio tonight. Did you listen? What did you think?

-- Anonymous, July 10, 2001

Answers

I was out tonight and couldn't listen. :( I hope somebody here caught it and can recap it for the rest of us.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Don't feel bad, Paul. It wasn't on.

:(

The only thing they did was interview boring people who didn't even have much to do with writing, and then they said "Next week we'll have blah, blah, blah, and Gwen Zepeda, who will tell us why she hates clowns."

I am so sad that I told everybody to listen and then they didn't even play it. I spent most of that hour on the phone saying, "Yeah, I know... I don't know... hold on -- let me get the other line... Yeah, I know. I don't know. I know, it's almost like they're not gonna play it or something... No, I don't know what the fuck that woman is talking about... organic body movements? Something."

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Oh, I was going to stay very late at work just to hear it. Now I'm glad I didn't. But you'll be on for real next week?

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Thanks for the update, Gwen. It's not your fault they didn't play it. The silver lining is those of us who missed the program last night should have another chance to catch it next week. :)

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

Yeah, that's how I'm trying to look at it, too. They said at the end of last night's that "Next week, Gwen Zepeda will tell us why she hates clowns." So there we go. Thanks for y'all's continued support.

-- Anonymous, July 11, 2001

So, did anybody listen? I'm not asking to be a nag -- I'm asking because I wanted to complain about the way that the host made it sound like I was a twelve-year-old creative writing student from ANPO. There was a lot of ANPO-pimping going on before and after my reading. My boss denies that she had anything to do with it.

I'll quit talking about this for the moment because I want to be able to get to work without killing anyone today.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001

I, sadly, didn't get to listen. :(

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001

Retard that I am, I found my way over to the site, listened for awhile, and then gave up because another roommie was hounding me for the phone. Only later did it occur to me that you probably meant 9 p.m. *CENTRAL* time, since you live in Texas and not Boston.

Yeah, I'm a genius.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2001