Was he?

[slappy4428]

Or did he just say he was... just asking...

MITCH ALBOM: Pardon my French, but at least I'm trying

December 3, 2006
BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

As I write this, I am on a plane to France.
On my lap are two books: "French Beyond The Basics" and "The Everything French Verb Book." I purchased them last week at a U.S. bookstore, along with four French study CDs, none of which I have been able to listen to but all of which are in my bag, as if they might fly out and start playing themselves.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

I say bull****.

I presume he's writing this on a laptop, yet on his lap sits two French books. Which is it Mitch?

 

[joe king]

I say bull****.

I presume he's writing this on a laptop, yet on his lap sits two French books. Which is it Mitch?

Laptop could be on the tray table, books in his lap. Not defending, just sayin'.

 

[Rosie]

Maybe he was actually using old-fashioned notebook and pen. He had the books in his lap and had the notebook on top of the books.

But.......I don't know many writers who write copy the old-fashioned way. :-\

 

[DyePack]

Who. Cares.

 

[GB-Hack]

After the Michigan State debacle, people want to make sure he's not slacking again.

 

[DyePack]

Slacking, as in every newspaper that ran the Michigan State column unedited.

No one, at any newspaper, changed it for the better. No one.

 

[GB-Hack]

Sure, but people just want Albom to slip up again so they can make fun of him. You know the people with the targets on their back around here.

 

[TigerVols]

I say bull****.

I presume he's writing this on a laptop, yet on his lap sits two French books. Which is it Mitch?

He's Mitch ****ing Albom, man. He's not typing on no laptop! He's using airphone to dictate to his secretary in between sipping the champagne offered to all First Class passengers!

 

[writer of ball]

Interestingly, Albom just penned a column on the Michigan "screwjob" that on the Free Press website now. Presumably from France, right? Makes sense, I guess.

 

[slappy4428]

Slacking, as in every newspaper that ran the Michigan State column unedited.

No one, at any newspaper, changed it for the better. No one.

Duluth?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I say bull****.

I presume he's writing this on a laptop, yet on his lap sits two French books. Which is it Mitch?

It beats him admitting that he's sitting on the two French books so he can reach the laptop

 

[SoSueMe]

Look, like him or not, he may very well have written both.

I wrote a column last week that won't run until Thursday of this week.

 

[DyePack]

Slacking, as in every newspaper that ran the Michigan State column unedited.

No one, at any newspaper, changed it for the better. No one.

Duluth?

Those changes weren't for the better.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Everything he wrote is true. Mateen Cleaves and Jason Richardson were sitting with him on the plane and they will verify it all.

 

[Ashy Larry]

Do you people actually think Monsieur Mitch needs to type his own work? Thats what interns are for!

 

[slappy4428]

Do you people actually think Monsieur Mitch needs to go to the store to buy the French tapes? Thats what interns are for!

 

[slappy4428]

Sure, but people just want Albom to slip up again so they can make fun of him. You know the people with the targets on their back around here.

I take offense at that.
I don't care if he slips up or not; I'll still rip him until he no longer writes a column and devotes his whole life to making soccer mom's spiritual lives whole and helps perform the surgery to turn Oompa Winfrey into the white woman she really is...

 

[imjustagirl2]

Slacking, as in every newspaper that ran the Michigan State column unedited.

No one, at any newspaper, changed it for the better. No one.

I can't remember. Did it move on that Sunday? Or did it move like during the game on Monday for use that next day?

 

[slappy4428]

Moved Saturday for Sunday use.