Joe Hawkins

December 7, 2006

Hello Daniel,

Did you find out the name of the delicious veg you enjoyed at the Chinese Restrauant? I may have cooked it today (w/Chinese cut pork ribs and brown sauce) after gathering our harvest! WHen available it is VERY available! It is Chaote or veg pear or merliton…all the same veg. You will see at all oriential markets and most grocers.

Regards,

Joe

PS: All meals are sacred…some more than others!

Renato Rojas

December 3, 2006

Last June you kindly shared your V 1.5 rules that includ the one (how could I have forgotten it?) most important: Don’t eat anything stupid.

Combined household weight loss since then: 18 pounds.

It is fundamental to have flavor and the soup can be made delectable.

I may add that we have not deleted wine from our lives.

Thanks

Renato

christmasp

December 3, 2006

Hi people

I do not know what to give for Christmas of the to friends, advise something ….

Robert Baruch

November 27, 2006

Hi Daniel,

My first introduction to science fiction was with Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars. I read it when I was twelve, and it started off my career in reading SF. 25 years and several thousand books later, I had been reorganizing my collection when I came across my original copy of the book. I read it again this afternoon, and it still made me laugh out loud.

The book will never, ever leave my bookshelf. If The Singularity ever happens and I get to upload myself, that book is coming with me! It was a pivotal event in my life, so thanks for writing it!

Yours,

–Robert Baruch

Donald Waits

November 27, 2006

Hiya, DMP&J,

Bettcha been wondering what ever happened to Ol’ Donald from

your Huntington Days. No? Weel, I’ll have you know I have been

telling Pinkwater stories all over the Big Sleezy. One of my good

friends is Colleen Sally, a retired teacher of children’s literature

and who reads to the little bastards on occasion. When I told her

that I once knew you, she was both thrilled and mortified. I had

a letter from you (actually, it was MY letter with your corrections

on it) which I shared with her. She has taught from most of your

books and is a guru of the genre. All things considered, I am very

happy I discovered this site on my trusty Apple. Someday I’ll get

a computer. I seldom listen to that commie, liberal, unamerican

radio trash NPR. Even though I am retired (for the past 12 years)

I have beter things to do with my time. Such as singing in local

clubs, taking lots of photographs, ad painting. Glad to know

you are both well and even more productive. Give me an E-Mail

if you have the time or the simple humanity of bringing joy to

an old man who figured so pointedly in your undeserved career.

Donald Waits

My stage name is now “Mad Dog”

PS: I went to the rest of your web pages and thre is far too much information for me to stomach. Thanks, anywho…..Shall I send you a CD?

Cecil Bothwell

November 23, 2006

I’m a micro publisher and just put out my first children’s book. The author, Jerry, is wild keen to have you read it. Can I ship you a copy?

Madeleine Claire and the Dinosaur is on Amazon, though they haven’t done the “Look Inside The Book” thing yet. I really thought this sucker would be out long before Christmas, but printer, binder, shipper, oy.

Love your stuff. If I weren’t grown up I would probably consider being you when I was. Seems like great and serious fun.

Phyllis DeCourcy

November 23, 2006

For some years, probably at least twenty, I have intended to tell you that one of your NPR broadcasts had a lasting impact on me. Do you remember a story you told saying that you had to search for a dog with “eyes like Juno”? Being a doggie person, I knew just what you meant, and have remembered the story. Now, shortly I will have to search for a dog with eyes like Clarabelle. And like Juno, I’m sure.

Bo Simons

November 22, 2006

Zombie Chicken Alert! Petaluma, California. Long a hotbed of radical Jewish chicken farmers, is now the home of zombie chickens. The market for spent hen meat has collapsed and so farmers are euthanizing gobs of unwanted hen chickens and plowing them into fields and covering them with sawdust. Chicken compost. The problem these chickens do not stay dead, but emerge from the sawdust like feathered George Romero extras. But don’t believe me, click on this Santa Rosa Press Democrat story:

www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061122/NEWS/611220399&SearchID=73263753603020

Adam

November 22, 2006

Donky Puncharello,

I just wanted to thank you for writing books. I’m a twenty-two year old whose had a very wide range of experiences and many good times…still there is one persistent clump of memory…its really mostly a feeling…a really good one…that is always a part of me…which was created by the combination of reading Lizard Music and Borgel and listening to the radio as a child. There are several mental images of the way I imagined the content of the books and attached feelings that arise everytime I hear Ordinary World, by Duran Duran. If you hadn’t written those books I would totally not be me…so thanks again for the cookies.

Andrei Vermont

November 20, 2006

Do you happen to know a link to the wonderfull “Rabbit Ears Radio Theater” series? Does NPR or anybody else sell audio files from it? Thanks.

Peter Charles

November 20, 2006

Heard you on NPR talking about the mysterious veggie at Chinese Rest. in Red Hook. Have been to Red Hook, and never heard of “Golden Wok”…sounds interesting. Plan to be up there again over Thanksgiving weekend. Where exactly is it? Like to give it a try. Also, are they open Xmas Day?…I’m Jewish, and that’s my tradition!

Assheam (Ash_eam) Onjabi

November 20, 2006

Hello Mr. Pinkwater,

I am 12 years old and I was fascinated when I read Looking for Bobowicz. It was so funny at times and it sometimes took time to figure certain things out really quick. I just wanted to know what-if any-book came after Looking for Bobowicz in a series.

With all due respect thank you very much for reading my note.

Your buddy,

Assheam

Tim Easter

November 19, 2006

I’m looking for a copy of the dentist skit that Harvey Korman and Tim Conway did on the Carol Burnett Show.

daniel thompson

November 17, 2006

is it true that you sold newspapers as a child?

Hal Studholme

November 16, 2006

Would you consider writing a book about

my elf friends that live in Iceland ?

thanks,

Hal

ps elves are more important in Iceland than just about any place else.