in the name of completeness and

mrG — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:58:30 -0500

in the name of completeness and just for the record, no, my dear TeledyN-fans, I'm sorry to say they did not publish my submission.

File this under "You can always tell a 'zine publisher, you just can't tell 'em much" because, like invariantly all the others to whom I gave the similar answer when each asked me for their own pet variant on the scratch-mine-first non-reciprocal freebie back job, they just apologized for having bothered me ... and never spoke to me again.

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mrG — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:49:59 -0400

I expect this happens to everyone who's got some presence online as an attention-seeking desperado media whore, but I get these all the time, a gentle, friendly and steady stream, that slips curiously right past the tipjar, an inbox ticker-tape parade of emails and phonecalls and letters of the general form "please write an article for us" -- for free, of course.

Gary: Just wondered if you might be willing to write a short article by Wednesday for The Advice Edition (see below). It could be about how to use graphics in blogs, something related to your work, or whatever. / Dave

The usually presented fly-honey ointment theory, which Dave didn't try, goes that, in return, the donating author will get ...

No. On second thought, I won't give that away. I'll let you get to that part all on your ownself, because today, and truth be known like too many of the others, I bit my tongue and granted Dave's request, it being blog-buddy Dave and all, and then, in keeping with the whole spirit of the work itself, rather than wait to tell you when it's out, I've pre-release and unpermissionedly posted my original text, right here, in it's entirety.

I hope they publish it.

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