"After writing my introduction entitled Quaker Gone Bad I was contacted by another pipe enthusiast of 35 years from the country of Jordan offering free tobacco to help further my initiation. What followed was amazing! Then there was Smokin' Grandma!
It is an unusual world we live in, but sometimes we need to be reminded of just how fine a place it can be. I was contacted by a gentleman who had read my first post and he felt inclined to offer not only tobacco, but a pipe as well. At first I thought perhaps someone was pulling my leg, but the more we corresponded the more I came to realize that the man was quite sincere. So, I sent off my address and declined the pipe offer as I had been acquiring a good many in the last few months. But, still, I was not prepared for the tobacco tins that arrived by Fedex about 2 days later. Enclosed was the finest assortment of tobaccos I had ever seen in one place outside of the smoke shop." -italics are mine
"Now here’s a trend you don’t often see: apparently, it’s Cindy Sherman ex-lover month at the movies. “The Feature,” an experimental memoir by Ms. Sherman’s ex-husband Michel Auder, recently played at Anthology Film Archives. And now “Guest of Cindy Sherman,” by Paul Hasegawa-Overacker (a k a Paul H-O), offers an even more intimate look at the personal life of Ms. Sherman, the photographer."