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April 30, 2008

I'm gonna be fiddling with my stupid Oprah book forever. The latest thing I'm calling it is Oprah's Dead Son, but it's still not anywhere near done and I've gotta get it done in order to go back and get it done right. I think I started it in 2002. That might have been a while ago. Here's an e-mail I just got:

Subject: remove me from your spam list You're on your own list and I don't do spam. G. Mr. Jones. I received the e-mail below unsolicited from you this morning. I do not know you nor I have I done business with you. I have requested not to receive any more emails from you. Unsolicited commercial emails are spam. I will forward the next one I receive from either of these addresses along with my last two emails to the New York Attorney General's consumer protection division. According to your public profile at the Columbia Journalism School website, you're working on your first book "Fake News, Real Politics." I have a free website listing agents and publishers which may be of assistance to you. I sent an e-mail to the address you provided on the Columbia site, which in and of itself is a tacit solicitation of e-mail communication. Further, my e-mail was in no way "commercial." I'm not selling anything. I gave you a link to a free book, links to chapters of a free audio book, offered to send you a free copy of the fifteen-hour audio book in its entirety and gave you the url of my free website which may aid you in your search for representation and the publication of your first book. The audio book is a narrative nonfiction account of the history of America from 1943 to 2003 which includes pertinent audio clips from noteworthy individuals who helped shape "real news" during those years, from The Shadow, Father Coughlin, Charles Lindbergh, JFK, MLK, Robert Welch, Harry Truman, etc. to Allen Ginsberg, Leadbelly, Walter Chronkite, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, etc. (see the free index I provided you for the others). What that all means is that the book I gave you for free and the audio book I offered to send you for free is "news." Your bio says you're a news guy who, as such, should be interested in news. Whose fault is it that you're not what you say you are? Feel free to include this reply in your complaint to the NY Attorney General and/or whomsoever else you may want to complain to. Thanks. G.

Here's the original e-mail I sent the guy.

Quote:

Here's Ginny Good in its entirety:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn1.html

Here are some sample chapters from The Audio Book of Ginny Good.

Chapter 7: North Beach, New Year's Eve, 1962
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch07m.mp3

Chapter 13: San Francisco, Tijuana, Mississippi, New York, Summer, 1964
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch13m.mp3

Chapter 19: La Honda, May, 1965
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch19m.mp3

Chapter 23: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 1
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch23m.mp3

Chapter 24: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 2
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch24m.mp3

Chapter 32: Hillsborough, CA, Summer, 1982
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch32m.mp3

Chapter 35: Ashland, OR, February, 2003
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch35m.mp3

Here's the index:
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn.html

If you want a copy of the whole huge fifteen-hour extravaganza on .mp3 CDs for free, give me an address and I'll send you a copy. There's a bunch of other stuff on my little website, too. Click some links and see. Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
everyone@everyonewhosanyone.com
http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com

Unquote.

"...they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am
whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be
thee, nuncle..."

The Washington Monthly
1319 F St. NW, Ste. 710
Washington DC. 20004

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com

National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 513-2000

http://www.npr.org

WAMU 88.5 FM
4000 Brandywine Street, NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 885-1200

http://www.wamu.org

XM Radio
1500 Eckington Place, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 380-4000

http://www.xmradio.com

Radio America
1030 15th Street NW, Ste. 1040
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 408-0944

http://www.radioamerica.org

Los Angeles Times (Tribune Co.)
202 West First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 237-5000

http://www.latimes.com

Mr. Jones, please remove this address from your e-mail list. The readers' rep office is here for questions or concerns about the journalistic standards and practices in the Times' news coverage, so this should be sent elsewhere:

News releases for the L.A. Times should be sent to the appropriate desk. The sections have the contact information printed in them. Information for the California section should go to metrodesk@latimes.com. Business news should go to business@latimes.com; arts, culture or life features should be sent to calendar@latimes.com. Foreign news items should go to foreign@latimes.com, and national news to national@latimes.com. Book review information should go to book.review@latimes.com. The general fax number for the newsroom is 213-237-4712.

For more information about where to send news releases, please go to this link:

http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-contactus,0,3944908.htmlstory#guide

Thank you very much,

Jamie Gold
Readers' Representative

Mr. Gold, as the title of the section you're listed in ("Propagandaville") suggests, I question and have concerns about the journalistic standards and practices of the Times' news coverage. When the work of the greatest living writer in the world gets utterly ignored, seems to me you ought to have a few questions and concerns of your own. Go listen to my free, fifteen hour audio book or my free, four-hundred page novel and you'll see what I'm talking about.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/awsyn.html

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn.html

I can't take the address off the list 'cause it is what it is and this free, online directory of pertinent purveyors of propaganda is merely a futile expression of free speech and a free press, but, as I said, I'll gladly not send you any more e-mails. Thanks. G.

San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Newspapers)
901 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-2988
(415) 777-1111

http://www.sfchronicle.com

Well, many thanks for that enticing excerpt, and congratulations on the greatest expression of modesty I've seen yet in 2007.... Best

I'm a master of understatement. Here's some San Francisco gossip for you. Thanks. G.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch01m.mp3

San Diego Tribune (Copley)
PO Box 120191
350 Camino de la Reina
San Diego, CA 92108
(619) 299-3131

http://www.uniontrib.com

Sacramento Bee (McClatchy Newspapers)
2100 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95852
(916) 321-1001

http://www.sacbee.com

SF Bay Guardian
135 Mississippi St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 255-3100

http://www.sfbg.com

San Francisco Examiner
450 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

http://www.examiner.com

San Jose Mercury News
750 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95190
(408) 920-5000

http://www.sjmercury.com

San Mateo County Times
1080 So. Amphlett Blvd
San Mateo CA 94402
(650) 348-4360

http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com

Orange County Register (Freedom Communications)
625 N. Grand Avenue
Santa Ana, CA 92701

http://www.ocregister.com

Marin Independent Journal
PO Box 6150
Novato, CA 94948

http://www.marinij.com

Hey, Brent, here's a story specific to Marin County...it even mentions the IJ. Thanks. G.

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch25m.mp3

Oh, ps, I can't remove you from the list itself 'cause it's a free, public website but, as I said in the original e-mail, I'll be happy to put a mark by your name to remind me not to send you any further e-mails. Thanks. G.

Los Angeles Daily News
21221 Oxnard St.
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
(818) 713-3000

http://www.dailynews.com

(@) = Not a corporate fascist. (Feel free to apply for non-corporate fascist status...simply tell me in fifty words or fewer why you think you're not a corporate fascist.)

(*) = E-mail bounced. Correct information much appreciated. In fact, anyone who knows anything I don't know, let me know.

(!) = E-mail blocked (just mine, not yours), probably 'cause the intended recipient and/or the company by which he or she is owned and operated is an extra brainwashed, super chicken, corporate fascist goon.

(666) = Asked not to be contacted (by me, not by you), very likely because he or she is a happy little slave boy or a happy little slave girl and doesn't want it any other way, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Gerard Jones
everyone@everyonewhosanyone.com