John Brisker Lives

This whole thread feels a little fiction-y. Meta.

 

Gotta admit, that was very well-played.

 

Super. I try to be nice and now I'm forever in the Boom archive. This will haunt my grandchildren.

 

Meta ? Az you have been hanging around to many artists.

 

Still have a Brisker Topps cards in gold Sonics uni. He kinda looks like Amin in the pose. John Brisker and Wendell Ladner-two of the baddest asses in the ABA.

 

Sirs, Madames,

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YHS, etc

 

That's good stuff.

 

I think this is really lame shit. It is frustrating to not know what parts are true and and what parts are fictionalized. Loved the ABA, loved watching Brisker play. The Condors PR guy interviewed in the article is a real person -- in fact I worked with him on a newspaper years after his ABA days. Fuck ESPN. I never read their suck-ass mag unless I am in the proctologist's waiting room.

 

Tell us how you really feel Frank. After realizing much to my embarrassment that it was the fiction issue I went back and read some to the other work. Actually some pretty good stuff that gets lost in all the ESPN BS. Good idea bad execution.

 

Mr Ridgeway,

You did see the cover with the 96-point type declaring it a fiction issue, right? I can only presume that you don't make the distinction between fact and truth. There is one. Fiction seeks the latter and sometimes might incorporate the former.

If you read closely enough, the note attached to the story defines everything that is fact: the State docs, the real-life subjects I talked to (Cranwell, Mark Brisker, etc), and, in fact, attempted contacts with the woman who claimed to be a daughter of Brisker. That was research. The rest is fiction. But I guess you missed that part in flipping through the magazine so quickly and I apologize for it not appearing in Esquire (great idea, killing Derek Jeter) or a publication you approve of. Yeah, I edged out Wright Thompson and Tobias Wolff to get in the issue and my story met with the approval of the guest editor, Dave Eggers who certainly doesn't have as many Pulitzer and major book noms as yerself. My life is worth nothing without your approval. Forgive me for not expanding on these worthwhile themes because I have to duck into a corner with my recently-received contract from Penguin for a series of suspense novels and grind out the other two non-fiction books I'm under deadline on.

YHS, etc

 

I said I never read the mag unless I am at the proctologist (I never go to the proctologist), thus I was not "thumbing through" the mag, just reading the link here. I read the mag so seldom that I didn't even know you and he are the same person. It is the self-indulgent, childish crap that keeps me away. It's a free country -- or I guess in this case, countries -- so you can do as you wish. Conversely, I don't have to like it, or even pretend to.

YCBM, etc.