A couple of weeks ago Mr. Rothman wrote me, telling me about his "blog" and asking if I'd post about it here. He then proceeded to let me know that he'd dissed me pretty badly in one of the early entries - not by name - and he didn't want me to hear about it from anyone else first. I looked at what he'd written - some twaddle about how he would never have the ego to write books about himself (yeah, right, that's why he's BLOGGING), or talk about what he ate for lunch or dinner, you know, a little slam against what I do here. His contention was that he used to love reading the notes because it was all about musical theater. I told him that this here site has been amazingly consistent in the writing and it was never specifically about anything other than what I felt like writing about. He thinks I have unbridled ego (I had to point out to him that I wrote three books about my childhood and that they are pretty loved by those who've read them - but one chooses to write about what one chooses to write about - he thought THAT response was filled with unbridled ego), but I have to say that my unbridled ego is not a patch on the butt cheeks of his, but I don't really care about any of that - I have as much ego as anyone, but I do keep it in check and never flaunt it EVER.
In any case, I like Mark, but I thought what he wrote was just foolish and therefore I saw no reason to post a URL here, as I tend not to want to promote those who feel the need to dis me, and why would I? Tonight, Druxy told me he'd gotten the e-mail and my only question is how did he harvest these e-mails? I suppose he searched them here (how else would he get them, unless I'm missing something somewhere or unless they were PMs here) - I'm not thrilled that he did it, frankly. And that's the story.
