Showing posts with label Ruth Stern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruth Stern. Show all posts

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Yeah Ruth, I'm Talking To YOU

Flog #2, From Scottsdale, AZ

I can’t believe the underwhelming response to my first FLOG.  Thanks Mom.

I’m incredibly busy crafting answers to the deluge of email I expect from you, my fascinated readers, so I will have to make this installment brief.  This will no doubt be a relief to my daughter, Ruth, who once replied to a brilliantly penned e-missive with a curt, “your e-mails are too long.”

 I responded, “for 40 years I wrote 30-second radio spots, 10-second TV IDs, and 7-word outdoor billboards.  If 3rd graders can read Harry Potter 750 pages at a time, a brilliant woman with access to the President of the United States can read a damn e-mail from her father.  Hereafter, if you want to know how I am, or who died, or who’s getting divorced, ask your sister (she reads my email).”

Meanwhile, back in the salt mines, Eileen is busily tending to the myriad details of forming a new business entity which will not only generate vast riches, but protect us from lawsuits, the IRS, long-lost relatives, and Glen Beck.

Until next time my Flog Followers (Floggowers?) ...