[AT] Romance of Rust

[Roger Welsch]

The true stories of my love life...A LIFE WITH DOGS...came out in October
and has been going like crazy.  I do love my pups.  Linda painted the cover
and inside illustrations so she maintains people buy the book for the
cover...and then are surprised to find words inside.  This coming autumn
there will be a quasi-semi-pseudo-mechanicking book, for beginners like me.
I figure it'll be a grand gift for kids, cousins, and significant mostlies
who are trying to figure out what makes us crazy.  I go deep into technology
in this one.  Like... "This is a nut....this is a bolt...."

As I have noted elsewhere, it's really stupid to write a book about
something you are an expert in.  You can only be an expert in one or two
things, after all.  I have opened up the world on the other hand by writing
about things I know nothing about...women, mechanicking, tools, dogs...
It's a new genre.  When it comes to not knowing much about something, we're
all experts!

Hope you're all having a good Christmas...and man, let's hope for an easier
New Year, huh?

Ol' Rog





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Vantacich" <rustymetal at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Romance of Rust


> Roger,
>
> That reminds me, when are you going to write another one of your great
rusty tales?  I can't stay awake with any other author and am about to start
rereading your series.
>
> Frank Vantacich
> Carmichael, Ca.
>
> Roger Welsch <captneb at micrord.com> wrote:
> I presume all you elves are working in your shops but when the time comes
> that you settle down by the fire with a full stomach and watch the kids
> destroy their Christmas presents, I would like to recommend a superb essay
> in Harpers for January 2005, "A Romance of Rust: Nostalgia, Progress, and
> the Meaning of Tools" by Donovan Hohn. It's Hohn's exploration of his own
> feelings about tools and auction sales. It's not so much about tools
> specifically as about the meaning of tools to some of us. Excellent
> reading....
>
> Here's to a good New Year, eh?
>
> Ol' Rog
>
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