Richard, thanks for making me laugh.
From: "'Richard J. Williams' [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Kool-Aid: Chicken Soup for Dumb Souls
On 11/9/2014 5:56 AM, Share Long [email protected] [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.
>
From: "TurquoiseBee [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: FairfieldLife <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 3:47 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Kool-Aid: Chicken Soup for Dumb Souls
.
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.
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