I have a fan! His name is P. R. Hensley, and he took time out of his busy day to go over to this thread on the TulsaNow forum, about my Urban Tulsa Weekly article on the history of Arkansas River plans, to post the following comment:
I never read anything Bates writes. It's all the same recycled old stuff.
I can't tell you how much it warms my heart that Mr. Hensley would devote his valuable time to seeking out articles by me or about me -- that he would be so interested in expressing his lack of interest in my writing. He even went to the online version of my article to post this:
Who cares what Michael Bates thinks? He's just in love with himself.
Charles G. Hill has a list of testimonials on the sidebar of dustbury.com. If I ever add a similar feature to this site, I think I'll kick it off with one of those two quotes.
Comments (1)
I used to have some "testimonials" on the sidebar; I found that--remarkably--my posting of those inflammatory comments was seen as a nasty move on my part. My best guess is that I wasn't supposed to publicly point out that those people were just as rude as they supposed me to be. Didn't fit with their world view, I guess.
Posted by Dan Paden | February 6, 2007 4:45 AM
Posted on February 6, 2007 04:45