Aaron Swordfisher
Post #3310 – 20130307March 7, 2013
Your mother was a heart and your father smelled of ploughs.
Daniel replies:
This makes perfect sense.
Talk to DP Forum
D Williamson
Post #3309 – 20130307March 7, 2013
My students and I are reading The Blue Moose. We are trying to find out where he is now. We are imagining all the places he might be and making postcards for him to send to Mr. Breton. Could he send a message to us and let us know what places he has visited lately ? We hope that he is having great adventures!
Many thanks!
Daniel replies:
I forwarded your post to the moose, and got this reply from him:
Dear Pink Water,
Of course, I do not send postcards so much these days. Since I got the Hoofpad--I mostly email. I have been visiting places where moose live--here in North America, and also in countries not on this continent. These include...wait, maybe it would be fun for the kids to find out where I have been.
D. Williamson, and students! Can you tell me where I may have gone to visit my fellow moose?
Please forward this for me, Mr. Pinkwater.
Your friend,
Moose
P.S. Weren't you going to talk to me about paying for the use of my life story in your moose books? What happened with that?
Brad Sondahl
Post #3307 – 20130304March 4, 2013
So I was watching the new TED video of Neil Gaiman’s wife, Amanda Palmer
And I thought, that’s what I wanted to recommend to you when you posted there was no sequel for “Bushman Lives.”
Why not try using Kickstarter and get fans to finance your typical pay for a novel, and if they raise enough, write it?
Daniel replies:
Nah. I don't think so. This right here is about as close as I want to get to the fanosphere. Fine for Amanda--she's obviously a people person. I treasure being an anonymous schmuck 99.9% of the time.
Mel
Post #3305 – 20130301March 1, 2013
The polysyllabic hastening of consumer bandwidth will dehumanize tomorrow’s separate but equal society. Peace out.
Daniel replies:
Thanks for letting us know.
Barbara Lutes
Post #3306 – 20130301March 1, 2013
I have been looking for the text of a commentary that Daniel did years ago about how dogs always think that every day is the best day ever and how unfailingly optiistic they are. How dogs will always assume that if you are walking towards the door it must mean that we are going for a walk, why else would you be going to the door… Any chance this commentary is available anywhere. I would love to hear it again.
Daniel replies:
Sounds like a good commentary. I don't think it is by me. However, thanks for the reminder--I should take my dog for a walk now.
Dusty Velour
Post #3303 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Pink!
Your words were my Catcher in the Rye, my emergency bandage, my key to further inquiry, my never failing foothold. Pink! You are the Rothko that will never be entombed within the cold, dark walls of a city museum. Your words feed untold thousands, engender visions for hungry minions seeking succor underneath a gray cloud. Pink! Your drum is answered by a thirsty throng, which grows strong with every beat¢
Daniel replies:
Webmaster Ed!  There are beatniks posting in here again!  Something went wrong with the software?
Rau Santaella
Post #3300 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Just a little notice: in the ebook version of Fishwhistle, there’s a small typo in the Skivvies make the man story. First sentence, there’s an 1 instead of an I. Just that. 🙂
Daniel replies:
These things happen. You do not get a refund.
Rau Santaella
Post #3298 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Hello, Mr. Pinkwater. I just wanted to tell you that I’m currently reading your short essay compilation and I’m enjoying every page of it. In fact, when reading “Soul of a dog”, I actually CRIED in the middle of the coffeeshop I was at.
The thing is, I think that story is too amazing not to share. I would like to ask you permission to translate it into Spanish and post it in my personal blog – with all the correct attributions and of course, links to stores where you can buy the full book. Would you be so kind as to grant me permission to do so?
Thank you in advance for the permission, and thank you for sharing so beautiful stories with the world.
Daniel replies:
Thanks for your kind words. Yes, you may translate it, and post the translation, provided you agree not to sell it for money. Let us know when it is done, and we will post a link here.
Matthew Cliff
Post #3299 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Very nice to see your nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You are a great man. I thank you.
Daniel replies:
Don't you have to go to Oslo to collect that thing? I mean, it's not that I have anything against it--my dog is Norwegian, but I hate to travel. So I hope I don't win.
Gus McFaddon
Post #3302 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Why doesn’t the company that makes head and shoulders shampoo make a body wash called knees and toes??
Slam Dunk the Funk,
G-Man
Daniel replies:
Because you would have to shower standing on your head for it to work the same as the other product. There might be legal complications.
Dorothea Floriana Hume
Post #3301 – 20130227February 27, 2013
Hi. I have read your books since second grade. Now I am thirteen. Not bored yet. I have some questions for a report on you that I am writing for my English class. 1. What happens to your manuscripts when the editor is done with them? 2. Are you still eating junk food? 3. Your characters are kind of funny and random. Were you an outsider as a kid? 4. Can you still make friends when you write all the time?
That’s it I guess. Hope you can answer some of this.
Thanks.
Daniel replies:
1. I have them fumigated.
2. No. What's more I really didn't ever very much. I know I wrote about it. This is called literary license.
3. I was, but I was not aware that I was. I thought _they_ were outsiders.
4. No. Well maybe via the internet. In fact, you are my best friend.
Thank you for writing to me.
MJ Miike
Post #3294 – 20130223February 23, 2013
OMG! I just downloaded Fish Whistle for free on Kindle. So cool of you to do this. Can’t wait to read!I haven’t been this excited about a book since “The Groucho Letters”. Well done, sir!
Daniel replies:
Please go back to amazon and post a review, (unless you decide it's a lousy book). Enjoy!
Aldric Franck
Post #3295 – 20130223February 23, 2013
My wife and I are in a quandary. I noticed she has been filing our children’s copies of your books between the American Girl and the Hopscotch Hill series. I’m thinking your work should be placed next to Robert Lawson’s Ben & Me and Alice in Wonderland. Please Advise.
Daniel replies:
I'm sorry, I do not offer marital advice. You want to seek a qualified professional.
Glauber
Post #3293 – 20130222February 22, 2013
Fishwhistle as ebook = awesome, awesome awesomeness!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Is it e-fishwhistle or fish-e-whistle?
Daniel replies:
Don't thank me, please go to amazon and post a review.
Alan
Post #3292 – 20130222February 22, 2013
Thought this story might interest you.
Back in January, Aron spent 28 days alone in the Norwegian Fjells (near my ancestral home).
www.sognavis.no/?service=redirect&articleId=6421718
www.sognavis.no/lokale_nyhende/article6425610.ece
www.sognavis.no/?service=redirect&articleId=6435655
www.sognavis.no/lokale_nyhende/article6467676.ece
Daniel replies:
All I can make out, not reading Norwegian, is he is some cool doggie.