http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/scratch/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/10/scratch/comment-page-1/#comment-36784 Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:54:22 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9338#comment-36784 Wow, Jonathan’s got a pair of Swarovski binoculars!? OK, We’re about the same age, he lives in Santa Cruz, and I’ve been on the Monterey Peninsula since the 80’s, where coincidentally we sold those things at the Nature Company on Ocean Ave. in Carmel. (this was in the glory days of Specialty Retail when the whole world wasn’t just one big clothing store) Those things are like the DeLorean of optics these days… Anyway, I’ve been on the Franzen Diet Plan of not allowing an internet portal within a hundred yards of my writing space for years, (came up with the idea independently before it became hip, by the way) and still avoid social media like the plague. (It’s a huge time waster which doesn’t have any real-world benefit towrd plugging your writing unless you’re trying to reach a whole lot of desperate writers snatching at your liferaft) Wonder if I sold those binos to him? Hmmm….

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