Life Storiesis

By Eric Meub



I managed to post this even though Morris has resigned. Don't ask me how I managed it; mum's the word.

 

A short essay he wrote this fall for his 60th Yale reunion book next year prompted me to tell him that he could teach a class on "How to Write Your Life Story in 500 Words or Less." He seemed to lighten at the suggestion:

Ask Wednesday: Susan C. Price of Morris Dean on various very interesting things

By Susan C. Price

When you were hard up for an interview to publish, you might have interviewed yourself…but perhaps it’s time for one of us (namely me, cus i de bes riter) to inteview YOU.
    Hmm, what might you propose to interview me on or about...? And could you whip up a drawing or painting of me (from a photo) as my “mug shot”?


I get to decide and you can edit out or not answer as you like :-) and oh, what a Cheshire cat grin THAT is! Yes, I could do a line drawing, except that “whip up” means on command, fast, and looks like you…I can ensure they look like humans...but can’t guarantee a likeness. And I find “commission” work...real stressful...but you can give me a photo and I will get around tuit...Looking like I will be “free” before mid April...methinks.
    I understand about “commission”....Look at my Facebook profile photos to see whether there’s one there that “inspires”you?

I did download about 4-6 of your portraits from Facebook and they are on my table in my painting “studio.” But…there are many things on that table and much dust…We will see...if I get actually into that studio by April.
    Okay. I trust that you would ask excellent questions for my interview. Fire away any time.

No longer anonymous

The occasion for Maureen Dowd's column Tuesday in The New York Times on the web ("Stung by the Perfect Sting") was the news that the anonymous blogger who had called Liskula Cohen, "a 37-year-old model and Australian Vogue cover girl, a 'skank,' a 'ho,' and an 'old hag' who 'may have been hot 10 years ago'" might bring [or had brought] suit against Google for letting Cohen know who her tormenter was: "a cafe society acquaintance named Rosemary Port, a pretty 29-year-old Fashion Institute of Technology student."
    When Dowd went on to ask, "Who are these people prepared to tell you what they think, but not who they are?"
    I realized that I didn't want to be one of those people.

–Morris Dean