On 11/9/2014 5:56 AM, Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Jeez, turq, now you're blaming the TMO for chicken soup?! FYI, Jack
Canfield and Rick Hanson never lived in FF, though Marci Shimoff did.
Read it and weep: Marci Shimoff is the best selling, non fiction,
woman author/of all time/. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
PS Making any progress on that thorn in your paw?
>
/Maybe he is upset, Share, because he had to pay for the coffee on his
five-minute date with Barbara. Go figure./
>
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*From:* "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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*Sent:* Sunday, November 9, 2014 3:47 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Kool-Aid: Chicken Soup for
Dumb Souls
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Interesting article about a phenomenon that as I remember had its
start in Fairfield. Descriptions of this Literary Pinnacle Of Newage
Crap in the article like "awful, mawkish, obvious, painful,
unbearable, unenjoyable, and scarring" and "a noxious sludge of
sentimental woo-woo" just don't do its horriblenessitude justice.
Someone I had known back in the TM movement once tried set me up on a
"coffee date" with one of the Chicken Soup authors. It was horrific,
almost the worst date in my life (for the record, the worst was with
Barbara De Angelis)...I lasted less than five minutes before making
some excuse and running away, and had to wash my ears out in the
coffeeshop restroom before I felt human again.
What Makes the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series So Addictive and
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