From the Epistles of St. Jules to the Forensicians:
11/7/01
Things are way weird this week, my friend.
There is no episode. This does not mean that you-know-who doesn't have his knickers in a twist over Jon Franzen dumping Oprah. "Nostrum is almost high art," the lad exclaims, "and we'd appear with La Winfrey in the blink of an eye. We'd buy her magazine, we'd rent her films -- hell, we'd even watch her TV show." What a martyr.
Of course, Franzen at least writes, and this week all we're doing, as promised, is creating polls. At least we're assuming it's polls, plural. Yahoogroups has this polling feature, and we've been longing to use it. "Why should we have to do all the work?" the Nostrumite adds. "Standing over a hot word processor all day, coming up with plots, inventing characters, mixing metaphors, burying subtle allusions. Who do these readers think we are? Jonathan Franzen? They think it's high art or something? Horse fluffles!"
So, in the spirit of horse flufflery, we ask you where we should go next. We think this works for both subscribers and non-, but we'll find that out shortly. You might need to create a yahoo id. Would that kill you?
To vote, please visit the following web page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostrum/polls To become a part of our world and have the episodes delivered free every week directly to your own private electronic door, sign up at for Nostrum at http://groups.yahoo.com/, or email mailto:juliecbs@aol.com and we'll subscribe you directly.
Jules
