Gatenby update
Apparently the deadline has passed for Canadian buyers to drop $2 million on Greg Gatenby's book collection, and he's now free to sell it to the Americans lining up at his door.

At a press conference at his Toronto home on Nov. 24 to announce the proposed sale, Gatenby had hinted that he was prepared to sell at least part of his collection to an American buyer should he not find a willing party in Canada. Gatenby did not return calls yesterday to say if whether or not he had found a domestic buyer or if he would proceed with the foreign sale.

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I'm particularly proud of the intertextual nod to the Brylcreem jingle.

I think it stands alone as well as any of your verse....

Great. Your deletion has removed all context for that lovely piece of verse. Just great. Maybe I should expand it, a kind of 21st C. inversion of Rape of the Lock. Might have to tighten me couplets a bit, tho. You should see my doggerel file, it's thicker'n a donkey's dong.

P.S. Consider me duly wrist-slapped. You'll hear no more from me on Fatty-fat McLumpenstein.

Jeezum crow, Zach. You're a freaking jenioos. You've found your calling: doggerel.

[It's been a while since we got a sincere eek from Twinky. Good on ya, Zach]

eek!

I dunno, but Haha has given me a great idea for a book!


I'm getting a set of hair transplants
The doctor found inside my pants.
What once grew dead-straight will now be kink-curly
And please the lovely ladies thor'ghly!
Oh don't you know I'll be so debonair,
With girls running fingers through my rooftop pubic hair.

Does this Gatenby thing and /m39 and /m40 make anyone else think of this:
http://www.bygosh.com/MotherGoose/tweedle.htm

Where's a monstrous crow when you need one?

Oh George, you know I love the site and all, but do you have to be so merciless in making fun of the man's weight?

The two million dollar scramble

Rebecca Caldwell reports* on Gatenby's straight-faced claims that the books are his.

Twice an assistant attempted to cut off questions regarding provenance. The issue: When publishers send out free review copies of a book for promotional purposes, are they sending them to the individual or to the institution the individual works for? Gatenby maintained that the publishing industry sends them to the person and that the books then become that person's property.

He has an assistant? To assist with what? Petulance?

Gatenby decided to sell the collection because "the sheer number of books became a problem." The first floor of his Parkdale home is virtually decorated with books. Bookcases run floor to ceiling; framed artwork leans against the cases, waiting for some clear wall space.
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"As you can see, I am now booked-out even here, and one of the reasons I am selling the collection is so that I can move again in my own domicile, and so that I can hang some art on the wall," Gatenby said.

Um, I can think of a better way of freeing up more, ahem, space than selling your books, Greg... And what will he decorate his house with next? Pop-tart wrappers?



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