Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from it more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. (John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs, 1989, Ch. 6)
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Shipping Misinformation from Amazon.com
Dear Readers...
If you happen to want to purchase a copy of Up Home: Stedman 1903-1909, and you visit Amazon.com to make the purchase, you may see their ridiculous notation that the book "usually ships in 1 to 3 months" if you order it from Amazon. If you see that stupid notation, please don't laugh until cappuccino spurts from your nose. Just contact me, via this blog, and I'll see that you get a copy in a fraction of Amazon's ridiculous time frame. Those morons must think the book is being written in longhand, one copy at a time, by monks cloistered somewhere in the Hindu Kush, and shipped via slow boat from China.
As you may have gathered, Amazon.com presently holds a high ranking position on my personal fecal roster. NOT THAT THEY BLOODY WELL CARE. They'll just blunder on like a nearsighted elephant, damning their authors to literary perdition by stupid listings of the type I'm bitching about here. Do you suppose the bitching will help? Please cast your votes.
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