Re: OT:For Howard

On Aug 12, 3:16?pm, Howard Ferstler <fers...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
vinylan...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 11, 3:32?pm, Howard Ferstler <fers...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

vinylan...@xxxxxxx wrote:

I'm not surprised. Then again, I enjoy watching you squirm.

Why should I squirm? I'm retired, with a happy fixed income,
and even the little work I do for The Sensible Sound is done
more as a favor for the publisher and one of his editors
than for my own gain. I have no stake in what happens in the
world of audio.
Translation: I can no longer make a living writing. I never could,
in fact.

Well, of course not. I never did make a living with my
writing work. However, I also did not need to make a living
by doing so. On the other hand, I can assume that most other
small-magazine contributors out there, talented or not, are
in the same boat.

I, however, do make a living while writing.


On the other hand, you are dependent upon the slavish
attention of naive audio buffs who are fooled by your
assessments of gear and audio principles. Your financial
success depends upon enthusiasts who sit on the edges of
their collective seats, waiting for the latest and greatest
revelations that will allow them to "scratch the upgrade
itch" and swap their current gear for still better
amplifiers, wires, players, and vibration isolators.
Actually, my audio magazine work is about one-fourth of my total
writing output, so I'm not dependent upon it at all. In fact, if the
magazine I worked with folded tomorrow (and with 65,000 subscribers,
it won't), I would simply ramp up the output at one of my other gigs.

This is weird. Either you are a total con artist who is
pulling everyone's leg here (meaning that you are an
accomplished individual who uses his audio-journalism
talents to fool people for profit), or else you are an
ignoramus who brags about things you have never done at all.

Or I'm a guy that most people around here know, and they know where to
read my stuff, and do. Funny thing is, my writing has often been a
point of arguments around here. And you have often been in the middle
of them.


I'm a freelance writer, Howard. I write copy, I edit books, I write
and adapt screenplays. My college degree is actually in Literature. My
best friend and my wife are both well-established in the film
industry, so I have plenty of contacts there as well. So I will
probably never have to worry about a fixed income.

Well, it is odd, indeed, that a college man would be so
wrong headed about a subject like audio. I again refer to
your belief about freezing wires. Run that belief past some
of your more educated fellow intellectuals and see what they
say.

What are my beliefs about freezing wire? My bet is you have no idea.
In fact, it's beginning to look more and more like you have no idea
about anything at all!

Boon

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