McCarthy for President: Steering Committee -- Call for Meeting 3
From Deven Black 8/11/99
Greetings and salutations,
Apparently my last e-mail opened up the floodgates of inquiry, as I spent my
most productive minutes of the morning on the phone with someone purporting to
be Mosbacher. I say purporting to be because when I applied the acid test that
would have certified him (and he certainly is as eligible as any of us for
certification) he was not able to tell me for what Mario Procaccino ran and when
he might have done it.
Unfortunately I was no more capable of identifying the Procaccino campaigns,
though I did invoke the names of Sanford Garelick and Francis F.X. Smith,
apparently to no avail.
It is now clear to me that the next undertaking of the Steering Committee
should be to mount the archives of the former New York Independent Advocate (nee
The McCarthy Advocate) on-line, and I propose a meeting of said Steering
Committee, at a yet undetermined time and place in the not very distant future,
to discuss how this undertaking might be accomplished.
While it is customary for meetings of the Steering Committee to take place
over a meal, or at least a nice cup tea, modern technology has progressed in
such a way to allow us to have this proposed meeting by instantly exchanging
messages via AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, or some other system of immediate
typing. The upside is that we merely have to agree on a time to meet and do not
have to also agree on the cuisine to have at hand. The downside is that there is
no face time. Then again, that might also be considered an upside...
Therefore, (I had to work one of those in here somewhere) I propose that we
meet at a suitable restaurant, with suitability to be defined as one where we do
not actually have to wear suits and which has sufficient light so that we may
all use laptops to communicate with each other over the internet and sugar
packets or some other small non-lethal condiment that we may hurl at each other
to punctuate our inevitable typed disagreements.
Do I have a second?
Mr Mosbacher responds 8/10/99
(If you want to know how Mosbacher was able to respond to a message dated a
day later, ask Bill Gates.)
Let's not take this technology thing too far. A computer is just a
computer, but a good meal among friends is a feast for the soul (or something
like that.)