[Reader-list] Pt 2Suketu Mehta and Paul Miller, re: 'What They Hate About Mumbai"

[Paul Miller]

I just realized that Patrice is implying that I would post something  
from a friend who has written a review in the NY Times without  
crediting it.

Patrice - that is utterly ridiculous. I often send stuff from my cell  
phone because I'm moving around and not sitting at laptop etc I'm in  
Vincenza, Italy for a concert for the 500th anniversary of Palladio,   
and I was sitting at a cafe using my cell phone for email.

It is really irritating when people get snippy about totally useless  
stuff like that.

Anyway,

The other issue I mentioned - yes, my landlord was taken away by the  
police for having a huge weapons cache, and I found it extremely  
disturbing and weird. I also realized that my loft in Tribeca had been  
under surveillance, which is also a strange feeling to have. In light  
of what happened in Mumbai, this is all trivial.

In any case, thanx for the re-post. Suketu throws some great dinner  
parties in NY!

Anyway...

best,
Paul


On Nov 29, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Patrice Riemens wrote:

>
> Paul Miller recently posted the above mentionned piece by Suketu  
> Mehta on
> the Sarai Reader list, and I just re-posted it to nettime, with due
> credit.
>
> Due credit? It would appear that Paul Miller, while suggesting in so  
> many
> words that he obtained the piece from the author himself, simply  
> lifted it
> from the New York Times op-ed pages:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/opinion/29mehta.html
>
> (one could of course have guessed so much as he left the 'tools' line)
>
> As they say in the famous Dutch TV add by 'WC-Eend' ('Toilet Duck')
> lambasting imitations: it features a heavy German-accented professor  
> in
> the alleged R&D lab where the 'duck' is purportedly being developped:
> "Nott a ffery neatt procedurre" (holding a ludicrously poor  
> imitation in
> his hand)
>
> cheerio, patriizo and Diiiinooos!
> ('not best pleased')
>
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