I know that a few of the 2005 items, including the fabulous Patriot Thrush,
came from other posters. Maybe Paul Sullivan or Pamela Johnston? I compiled
them and added some of my own.
Alan Contreras
Eugene, Oregon
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On Nov 25, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Jay Withgott <withgott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My warmest and most appreciative gratitude, Oh Poet-Laureate-Curmudgeon, for
your judicious blessing and insightful line edits. I now feel well prepared
at last to make revisions before submission to the New Yorker.
And this has all been worth it, to have forced the exhumation of Alan's 2005
nomenclatural gem. I recall it from back in the day, and it gave me grins
anew just now. I may even start using "True-and-False Warbler" and
"Bluestate Skulker" in the field.
A few years back I had the idea of compiling a "greatest hits of OBOL," a
collection of the best writing from this listserv to have graced our screens
over the years. Such an effort would undoubtedly contain an inordinately
high proportion of Contreras postings, but what the heck. I reckon we could
print that sucker up, sell it, and make millions to put OBA in the black for
years and perhaps buy the Elliott State Forest. Anyone out there feel like
going through a couple of decades' worth of postings to put it together?
JW
On Nov 25, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Alan Contreras wrote:
Well, Jay, with apologies to our moderators I have held it in long enough
and it’s time.
I have never read anything like this on OBOL, though there is a faint
structural resemblance to earlier seminal works of Irons, Norgren, Geier,
Sullivan and others of the more, er, gifted obolniks. What’s the old
saying, “The ability to express himself has kept many a man poor.” Yeah.
