• iEditor by Henry Gee

    This is the Nature Network foothold for Nature Senior Editor Henry Gee. Expect discussion about editorial issues and experiences, papers I've handled, books I'm writing, and pictures of my pets. I also blog at http://cromercrox.blogspot.com/

    • Barbentrepreneurial

      Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 14:22 UTC

      Richard is currently making himself look ridiculous growing facial fungus for a good cause, in aid of depressed people with prostate cancer.

      Given that I already look ridiculous have a beard and ’tache that would not disgrace an unfrocked rabbi Captain Birdseye a Middle-Eastern terrorist, I was wondering how I could help Richard, apart from just giving a donation. So, over lunch today at the Cliftonville Hotel, the most likely venue for Cromer Is So Bracing ’09, I came up with this sleazy opportunist entrepreneurial idea.

      From now on, until Richard decides he’s finished, I shall donate one Aussie dollar to Richard’s barbaceous enterprise for each one of my books I sell on lulu.

      Well, it is for charity. And I’m desperate.

      Last updated: Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 14:22 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 15:31 UTC
          Ian Brooks said:

          …wow. Blackmail for charity. I love you Henry…seriously!

        • Date:
          Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 15:43 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          No, Ian, blackmail would be if I threatened to send copies of my books to people who didn’t donate to Richard’s follicular farrago.

        • Date:
          Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 15:51 UTC
          Kristi Vogel said:

          to send copies of my books to people who didn’t donate to Richard’s follicular farrago

          Richard’s collecting money for a hairy warlike termagant??

          Oh, wait, that’s virago. Sorries!

        • Date:
          Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 15:54 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Well, if you look at his comment thread, he did express a view that might be seen as legitimizing the sodomizing of marsupials.

        • Date:
          Friday, 31 Oct 2008 - 21:04 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Only if you were a really sad bastard, Henry.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 01 Nov 2008 - 07:48 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Even I’m not as sad as all that. Anyway, some sad kind person bought a copy of By The Sea yesterday, so I owe you another cowrie shell Australian dollar. Given that donations of more than 2 flainian pobble beads Australian dollars are tax-deductible, which I guess will help the campaign, I’ll wait until I get two or three more orders before donating to your good cause .

        • Date:
          Saturday, 01 Nov 2008 - 07:51 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Henry, it’s probably better to use the tiny URL for the donation—the blasted NN blogging software screws up the &.


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