Celina Aldape

August 19, 2001

Mr Pinkwater

I love your books. I have read about 14 of them (OK, I’m counting each of the novels in your big thick books). My favorite one was either lizard music or the snarkout boys and the avacodo of death. I started reading your books because my daddy heard you on the radio and made me do it. thank you for writing them (your wife is a good writer too).

please let me know of more fun books to read

Celina Aldape

(about to start 4th grade)

John Waitman

August 16, 2001

Hello Mr. Pinkwater,

One day I was surfing this abandoneware site (abandoneware is games that are not made any more so they are free to download) and I came across a game called the superhero league of Hoboken. I read a lot of your books and my fav was the Hoboken chiken emergency. I found the game zany and additive like your books. So I thought you might have fun playing it. You can get it at www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Superhero+League+of+Hoboken I hope you enjoy it cause I know I did!

from,

John Waitman

Penny Kohn

August 7, 2001

Dear Perfessor P,

We just adopted a four-year-old Shetland Sheepdog from a rescue group, and none of us knows anything about dogs. Help!!! how do I get him to bond with my daughter (the person who really wanted him in the first place)? She is feeding and walking him, but he seems to want to hang out with me (the mom). Also, although he is supposed to be completely housebroken, he gives us no warning of impending needs, and has performed his “duties” in the house a number of times. I’m baffled! I had him listen to “Lizard Music” on the radio today, hoping that there would be some sort of magical osmosis in your voice, but sadly, there was no change in his behavior. Can you think of anything that might help? A faithful fan, Penny Kohn

Greg

August 3, 2001

I am looking for the name of David Frishberg album that contains the song about what it’s like to be a cubs fan. I have been searching for quite sometime without out much progress. Please help if you can

John H. Kelly

July 30, 2001

To Whomever;

I did not mean to ease drop on your conversation with Tony, but I have a Casio [588] AE-20W which just broke for the last time, while trying to fix the watch for about the 6th time I cracked the LCD. The 3rd time I changed the battery, three or 4 years after buying the watch it started acting up (missing segments). Anyway I have been keeping it going all these years (every time I change the battery the watch acts up), now it is finally not repairable (broke the band many years ago). I do not understand the negative inferences to wanting this watch, but I too would like to get another one. I know you sent Tony one, I am not asking you to send me one, but I was wondering if with your previous discussions with Tony, have you found a source for this watch or one similar. Was this watch not a very good seller for Casio, are Tony and I the only ones interested in this watch? I am now using an old Seiko (backup watch), while I look for another. I found your site when I did a search on Yahoo for “Casio AE-20W”.

Stephen Williams

July 24, 2001

Hi Daniel, I just started keeping up with your CHINWAG THEATRE Radio broadcasts from WNYE in NYC. I really enjoy driving home listening to you and Scott read your stories. These books are for adolescents like myself (40+) and for those older as well. Maybe Victor or the Chicken man can append and give some more background on you!!

I will let the radio station know that this is a necessary program.

John Kolb

July 21, 2001

What do I think about chinwag Theater? I think it’s lousy that WNYC, In Dan’s veritable backyard, does not carry it! I have to tune in to KQED in San Francisco at 8:30 Sunday night, for their live stream–if I can get on the web at that time.

Louis Proyect

July 19, 2001

I am quite sure that I first heard this made-up name from Daniel Pinkwater, who was my next door neighbor in Hoboken and classmate at Bard College. I can’t exactly remember, however, whether he coined it himself or whether he heard it in some 1930s Hollywood comedy. I thought that perhaps it was the name of a Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields character, but apparently not. So who is “Hukkalaka Meshabob”?

Brian Newlin

July 13, 2001

Hi,

My name’s Brian Newlin, I’ve been a huge fan of yours since I was a kid. “Alan Mendehlson” and “Lizard Music” were a couple of the first books I remember reading, and they really influenced me to go into animation, I really wanted to tell stories.

Anyways, years later, I’ve just started up my own little animation studio with a bunch of college friends, and I was really wondering if you had ever considered turning any of your books into either an animated short film or a kids series? I know you’ve probably been asked this before many times, but I figured it was worth a shot. Either way, I’d like to send you a video of our work so far, if you’d be interested.

Sincerely,

Brian Newlin

NewKat Studios

Howard Long

July 11, 2001

Dear D.Pinkwater,

My wife insists that she heard you read from Gopnik’s “The Rookie” on NPR. I can find no reference to such a reading, on this site or on NPR’s. Was she hallucinating just because she loves to hear you read? We’ve both greatly enjoyed your times with Scott Simon. Keep up the good work.

Adriana Johnson

July 7, 2001

Dear Daniel,

I am an eleven-year-old girl who lives in Brookline (a dull town next to the city of Boston) and adores your books ever since I was introduced to them at around age 4. My other strange and freaky friends kind of have a hotline so that when a new book of yours comes out everyone can know about it and read it so we can refer to it at least 13 times a day and everyone will get what we mean by it (except the “popular” people who look at us strangely). Anyway, we were wondering if you come to schools and/or bookstores to give talks about books. It would be really prodigious if you could come to Massachusetts some time and visit the Children’s Bookstore or Lincoln school or The Brookline Booksmith sometime. All of us would really enjoy that and it would be something new here. Thanks for reading this and please reply.

Meredith and Kyla Guthrie

July 6, 2001

Dear Mr. Pinkwater –

i have written you before, but i decided that perhaps i would try out this lovely forum, as i AM a forum junkie. growing up on your books has made my sister and i longtime fans of yours. mostly we used to sit around and eat nachos and use pinkwater references that no one but ourselves and our beloved father would recognize. due to our devotion, we have decided to start a punk-folk-geek-hipster-creepy-oi oi rock band called Pinkwater. some (but not all) of our songs have themes from your books, such as, why new jersey is like a map of time and avocados.

we are currently infiltrating the city of pittsburgh with fliers about the band but not giving any venue for a show. our companion band that we’re trying to find members for is called The Snarkout Boys. we also have homemade pinkwater t-shirts. one that is pale pink and says “pinkwater” on the front and has a johnathon quicksilver poem on the back. we’d also like to call our first EP “No thanks, i just had an eggplant.”

what we’d really like to know is if you mind at all.

sincerely yours

Meredith and Kyla Guthrie Hilton

Greg Tjosvold

July 4, 2001

My Children’s lit prof believes Daniel Manus Pinkwater may be an “AKA” of Patrick F. McManus? Any truth to this? I have been a fan of the latter for years and I have to admit the resemblance _is_ uncanny.

Compare: This vs. this.

Max Mellman

June 28, 2001

Dear DP,

I am a fan of your stories(of course).

I was wondering, in “The Worms of Kukumlia”, is Sir Charles Pelicanstien the same guy as Professor McFwain? I got this idea because in the beginning of the story, he mentioned hunting for a sea monster in Lake Ontario. Professoor McFwain was also hunting for the sea monster in Lake Ontario.

Please write back,

Max Mellman.

P.S. my aunt just moved to Rhinebeck in New York State. That’s right next to your town isn’t it? Could I Possibly visit you? I am 10 going into fifth grade.

Herbert, Edeltraud & Ange

June 28, 2001

Dear Mr. Pinkwater:

Discovered your books late in life, but the whole family enjoys them. Every time one reads them, one discovers always something new. Also love the Chinwagtheater on Public Radio.

Wishing you viel Erfolg/success in all your endeavors.

The Lattimore’s

Herbert, Edeltraud & Angela

PS: not so slim people of the world unite!