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To: coug who wrote (4204)	6/15/2002 12:30:55 AM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51764

For the link madness in most here.. salon.com ""Larson, who was born in 1950, grew up in a blue-collar household in Tacoma, Wash. As a kid he liked to draw. He admired his junior high school classmates who could draw cool tanks and airplanes, but preferred to draw dinosaurs, whales and giraffes himself. He never took art lessons and it doesn't seem to have occurred to him to become a cartoonist. "On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy," Larson says. Too bad. Had there been a Career Day booth staffed by cartoonists, they might have clued him in about the white-out. (Or they might have hit him with a rubber chicken. You never know.) In high school, Larson abandoned drawing and concentrated on music, principally playing jazz guitar, though there are sinister hints of an affair with the banjo. In college -- Washington State University -- he majored in communication, thinking he'd get a job writing ad copy for television and "save the world from inane advertising," as he told interviewer Al Young. He also crammed every biology and natural history course possible into his schedule. After graduating in 1972, Larson inexplicably delayed his plunge into advertising reform, forming a jazz duo and then working in a music store. "I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians," he told Robert Cross of the Chicago Tribune. Out of the blue, the fed-up Larson sat down one day in 1976 and drew six cartoons, which he submitted to a local magazine, Pacific Search. They bought them for $90, and Larson was thrilled by the easy money. Next, a weekly paper, the Sumner News Review, paid him a lavish $3 a pop for a weekly cartoon. It wasn't until 1979 that he persuaded the Seattle Times to give him a weekly panel, "Nature's Way."" And another plus for innovation and imagination.. He grew up in a "blue-collar household in Tacoma, Wash." Working people, real people, that can think clearly, work hard and cleanly and keep their heads clear.. So new thoughts can come in.. No members of the Hidebound society need apply.. They can't contribute anyway, unfortunately..

To: coug who wrote (4204)	6/17/2002 12:43:19 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51764

Have you ever done anything worth relating?... Wrote anything worth reading? Said anything worth listening to ?.. If not, back in the days when I was in the consulting biz, a lot of people wasted a lot of money. Plus lied a lot, since I got rave reviews on the workshops I put on. And quite a fe letters of support for various articles I've written for various publications. But whether my name will be remembered at the same degree Shakespeare's is ... Nope. I have no such delusions.