TIME and the new island

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Oct 5 00:36:35 UTC 2013


At 10/4/2013 07:31 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
>Frank Zappa: Most rock journalism is people who can't write
>interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

A variation of "If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to
the mayor, if he could only read," said I believe by Churchill
(Churchy) LaFemme, unless it was Albert Alligator.

See Wikiquote "Talk:Walt Kelly", where it is unattributed and
undated, but surely before Frank Zappa.

Joel

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