blake murphy wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:10:44 -0500, "Dee.Dee" >
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"blake murphy" > wrote in message
> .. .
> >>>> On Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:33:57a, Christine Dabney told us...
> >>>>
> >>>> > Heya folks,
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I am up late at night again, reading food blogs. And I just found
> >>>> > this essay...
> >>>> >
> >>>> > This is an undiscovered til now essay by the late great Edna
> >>>> > Lewis...sent to Gourmet Magazine and just published. This really
> >>>> > resonates with me, and I post the link here for all you other
> >>>> > southerners and would-be southerners...
> >>>> >
> >>>> > http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000...southern_lewis
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Christine
> >>>> >
> >>
> >> not exactly on topic, but i would enthusiastically recommend to any
> >> student of the south the writings of florence king:
> >>
> >>
<http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Fa...ce/dp/03120506
31/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr= 8-4>
> >>
> >> or for an omnibus, 'the florence king reader':
> >>
> >>
<http://www.amazon.com/Florence-King-...pd_bbs_7?ie=UT
F8&s=books&qid=1201120640&sr=8-7>
> >>
> >> very, very funny lady, though she qualifies as a right-winger. an
> >> excellent prose stylist as well. a quote: 'no matter which sex i
> >> slept with, i never smoked in the street.'
> >>
> >> your pal,
> >> blake
> >
> >
> >I haven't heard anyone mention her name in years. I read her first few
> >books, and I believe she used to have an article at the end of a
magazine.
> >I know that I did like her years ago and DH and I had some good laughs
out
> >of her writings. I can't remember much about her politics; just mores.
> >
> >Dee Dee
> >
>
> she wrote the 'misanthrope's corner' column for many years in the
> *national review*, william f. buckley's magazine.
>
> unlike most political polemicists of any stripe, she was pretty funny.
>


I especially relished her anti - children writings...

And wasn't she a ******* (in a *quiet* way, not an "I'm OUT and PROUD!"
kinda way...)?

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Best
Greg