Alice Freeman
Post #2653 – 20101106
November 6, 2010
Hi Daniel,
Some years ago a person called Manus Pinkwater wrote a wonderful book, “Three Big Hogs”, which has been reread thousands of times and cherished in our family for years.
If you know this person, would you please thank him for giving us the pleasure of reading that book, and tell him that he has a family of enthusiastic fans in Vermont?
Happily,
Alice Freeman
Daniel replies:
What are the odds there would be two authors named Pinkwater?
Heidi Borgel Urbanski
Post #2651 – 20101105
November 5, 2010
Where can I get a copy of Escape to Dwerg Mounain? The local Dwerg library? The Dwerg Shop and Save? My child is reading your series backwards (Whatever. I’m just glad she is reading) and I need this book. Please.
Heidi Borgel Urbanski
ps- I bought Borgel for my Dad for Christmas last year…..For the obvious reasons…..
Daniel replies:
Well, you see...um...I'm still writing it. That is, I'm writing the book that was supposed to be it, only it turned into something completely else. This happens. I'm supposed to hand it in come February--so figure roughly a year before it's published, (though it may turn up serialized online at this site before that). Your child may have moved on to Dostoevsky before then.
Attorney Bernie
Post #2650 – 20101025
October 25, 2010
I would like to get a vanity plate for my Studebaker sedan and thought the word, Dorbzeldge, would be perfect, but it has too many letters. I thought I could take out the vowels, as in, drbzldg, but the limit is six letters. But if I drop another letter, it won’t make any sense. What should I do?
Daniel replies:
Get a plate that reads, ""BORGEL."" That's what Borgel would have on his Dorbzeldge. (See? After years of receiving posts from readers, I have learned not to ask why).
Your Future Best Buddy
Post #2648 – 20101020
October 20, 2010
hey Daniel, if i go to Bard College, will you be my best buddy?
Daniel replies:
No, because if you go to Bard College you will be infested with lice, a wide range of virii, and reek horribly because of the unhealthy and unsanitary food served there. Also, after being there for a little while you will become aggressively anti-social and will not have any buddies at all. Good school otherwise.
Robert Colella
Post #2647 – 20101010
October 10, 2010
Daniel,
When I was a young boy I read your Hoboken chicken book and to this very day it has remained one of my favorites. I have one question for you though, was that book under a different title, or am I imagining things?
Thanks in advance,
Robert.
Daniel replies:
We all imagine things. The trick is to know when you're doing it, anyway most of the time. The Hoboken Chicken Emergency is the name of the book, but the same chicken and Hoboken appear in Looking for Bobowicz and The Artsy Smartsy Club, which are different books. If you look at the title page of any of my books you will find small print which says I am not responsible for readers becoming confused.
Linda Siegel
Post #2646 – 20101007
October 7, 2010
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
I just want to thank you for your new book Beautiful Yetta. I came across this book while browsing in my local bookstore. Both my parents have passed away. When I saw that your book contained my mom’s name in the title I couldn’t resist picking it up. It is not every day that I come across a book with her name in the title! It not only had my mom’s name in the title but my father was a butcher in Brooklyn and my mom made the best chicken soup ever! I bought the book and really enjoyed it. I just ordered 3 more copies as my close family members want to each have one for themselves. I would love to get my copy autographed from you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for Beautiful Yetta. Although my mom wasn’t a chicken she was the best mom in the world and I miss her every day!!
Daniel replies:
I'm glad you picked up the book....and liked it! Webmaster Ed can tell you how to get the book autographed.
Daniel T
Post #2645 – 20101006
October 6, 2010
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
Thank you for the suggestion to read “The Neddiad.” We are going to start reading it today!
I am still hoping that you might change your mind about writing a sequel to “Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars,” because I really would love to know what kind of adventures Leonard and Alan could get up to on Mars.
Your biggest fan and also your #1 fan,
Daniel T
Daniel replies:
Your suggestion is noted. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy The Neddiad!
Teri
Post #2643 – 20101001
October 1, 2010
I just read your artile on the Golden Wok. I sent a local to sample lunch before i drove up
to Red Hook myself. The Golden Wok owners do not
treat everyone as they treat you. She ordered duck and it so greasy as to be inedible. Sorry,
I was really looking forward to a meal there.
Teri
Daniel replies:
What did they say when she told them about the duck? To me, that is more of a test than the occasional goof-up in the kitchen.
Liam Fletcher
Post #2644 – 20100928
September 28, 2010
hey man, just thought you might be interested in the punk rock song my band wrote inspired by your book “Alan Mendelsohn, Boy From Mars.” you can check it out at www.myspace.com/shlabotnikmusic. it’s the one called “Green Death Chili”
thanks for the books,
Liam B. Fletcher
Daniel replies:
I listened to it. It is good. I am not going to sue you for copyright infringement or anything.
Dave Purscell
Post #2642 – 20100927
September 27, 2010
This week our community struggles to recover from a flood that literally split our city in two (www.owatonna.com/news.php?viewStory=120943). My family was luckier than many. Some lost their homes. We only had to deal with 6″ of raw sewage in our basement. Fortunately, we were already preparing to move to our new home just two days later, so we already had a place to go. Unfortunately, those preparations included piles of boxes…in the basement.
What does that have to do with DP (aside from it also being my initials)? As we opened the smelly, soggy boxes to save what we could, I found one of my most prized posessions…Rainy Morning. It was, of course, “dripping wet”. It smelled a bit, but I put it out in the sun to dry. Hopefully we will still be able to share it with the next generation of readers in our family. In the meantime, I will just settle down with my wife, my sons, our two dogs, a couple of birds, a free ranging house chicken, and perhaps a random wildebeest or a long dead composer…and enjoy a Corn Muffin.
Daniel replies:
You are not the first person to tell me a book of mine stinks. I visited Minnesota once, (there were floods), and the thought occurred to me that one needs a sense of humor to live in that state. May you never run out of corn muffins.
Natalie
Post #2641 – 20100923
September 23, 2010
Hi Mr. Pinkwater. My name is Natalie. I am 8 in the 3rd grade. My mom said I could use her computer to write you. I just read the Big Orange Splot at school. I was talking to my teacher about what you rote about my house is my dream, my house is the place I like to be. i was thinking…did you know that the first letter for each word in the title The Big Orange Splot could also stand for To Be Our Selves??? I think that is what your book is all about. My teacher told me to write you and ask if you thought about that when you wrote the book. Please write me back. thank you, Natalie
Daniel replies:
No! I did not think of it! But you did! This is the neat thing about reading (and writing). The book is not finished until someone reads it, and it matters more what you think it is about than what I thought (if anything) when I wrote it. You are a cool reader--just the kind I like! Read more books and have more smart thoughts.
Daniel
Post #2640 – 20100922
September 22, 2010
Dear Mr. Pinkwater,
My teacher and I just finished reading your book, “Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars.” We really enjoyed it. It had some really, really funny moments in it, like when Dr. Prince thinks he’s going crazy, and starts saying, “Crazy as a coot!” I liked it that Alan and Leonard were such good friends and had adventures together. I was pretty sad when Alan Mendelsohn went to Mars and Leonard was alone again. It made me feel better when Leonard realized that he had learned to be more comfortable with himself and more confident, and made some other friends at school, and didn’t pretend he wasn’t smart anymore. And I was extremely happy when he got the letter from Alan Mendelsohn inviting him to visit “The Bronx.”
Can you please write a sequel to the book? I really want to find out what happens when Leonard goes to visit Alan Mendelsohn on Mars.
Sincerely,
Daniel T
Daniel replies:
I don't usually write sequels in the ordinary sense, but sometimes characters from books of mine turn up in other books--if you liked Alan Mendelsohn, there may be other books of mine you will like. Try The Neddiad, for example.
Larry Johnson
Post #2639 – 20100916
September 16, 2010
Some 20 yrs past I heard a piece in segemnts that you had on NPR about your days at a foundry. It was accompanied by Prokofiev’s “Troika” from the LT Kije Suite. Is that available in any format? It included one word of wisdom that helped considerably during my boat building days. You stated that you would sit down to write and whether or not you wrote a word, nothing else would happen during that period: no mail checking, eating, etc. I recorded it on my 1/4-assed tape player but have lost track of the matl.
Love the book reviews you do on the radio.
Thanks for your consideraton and your writing.
LJ
Daniel replies:
It may be in Hoboken Fish and Chicago Whistle, if that is the title.
Michael Caballero
Post #2638 – 20100914
September 14, 2010
Well,
Not only am I ashamed to even begin to type this request, but I am also embarrassed, but what the hell…I’m desparate for a small piece of my teen age years back in the 80’s and in a desparate and frenzied attempt to find this particular piece of 80’s memories, I came across the following posting in a forum on one of the many pages I’ve scanned through, that referenced Mr. Pinkwater…here is that posting, “imagine my surprise, then, to find out how the story ended. he had found mention of the watch in a forum dedicated to the writer daniel pinkwater, and wrote to him, asking if (1) pinkwater had the watch and (2) could he please have it. here’s the amazing thing: DP actually GAVE him the watch!” So what is this piece of memorabilia that I had no idea meant so much to me, until I couldn’t find one for sale on the internet, that meant so much to me that I have my poor 59 year old mother searching through box after box in her closet to see if she happened to have kept it since 1989? It is a Casio Twin-Graph AE-20W watch. Should Mr. Pinkwater happen to have another one, and feel like simply “giving” yet another one away…I would be more than happy to take it with a smile and a wish to the karma gods that if Mr. Pinkwater is still alive…that something extremely good happens to him!! Thank you for reading, and posting this…if you choose to do so.
Thanks,
Mike C.
Daniel replies:
Amazing this post should come in just now! I _did_ have another one of those Casio watches! Brand-new in the box it was. Battery was dead of course. I was cleaning out the storage room just this past weekend, and came across it. I may have bought it as a present for someone and never gave it, or maybe I just picked it up at the drug store 'cause it was such a neat watch. Anyway, I dropped it with a lot of other stuff into one of those big collection boxes for the Salvation Army. Amazing coincidence, what?
benjamin sTone
Post #2637 – 20100913
September 13, 2010
Hello again, Mr. Pinkwater…it’s that tattoo guy.
I think I should have mentioned that I clock in at 33 years old. I first read Lizard Music about 20ish years ago. (I know, it makes me feel old, too.)
That book blew my mind. It had an enormous influence on my own desires to produce art, be it writing or truly, horrifically bad drawings that usually involve stick figures.
Short version: I wouldn’t get anything tattooed on me that I wouldn’t be comfortable enough to have forever. I figure that speaks highly of your book, poorly of me, or a strange mixture of the two. No, it’s definitely the former.
I completely, totally, and utterly respect your views on the tattoo, so lemme just ask this: if I still get one that’s Lizard Music related, would you like to see a photo when it’s done?
Love,
benjamin
Who always, always wanted to be Victor, and is finally starting to feel like he is
Daniel replies:
I would not--but morbidly curious visitors to the website probably would.
