Hate Mail!
So, I was featured in Library Journal's wonderful Movers & Shakers supplement in March. It's a huge honor, I was thrilled to be in such wonderful company, and I was particularly delighted with the photo they chose. I thought it was a sassy (which I am), cute (which my husband assures me I am, though I harbor the occasional doubt), and playful reference to my lifelong obsession with pop culture and in particular my long history of going to concerts. (Thanks to my awesome Dad, that history began when I was just 12 years old. I dragged him as my chaperone to my first concert in 1989 -- we saw The Replacements at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby. It was not a great show, as the band were all wasted, but it was quite the experience, and I was hooked.)
And now, hate mail (scroll down to where it says "No Smoking!"). Clearly, my work here is very far from done.



10 Comments:
At 3:24 PM,
melissa said…
I saw that letter to the editor about your picture (which is everything you said it is--cute, sassy, etc.)--and as Meg Ryan said in Joe Versus the Volcano, "I have no response to that."
Although I do love the way LJ responded to the letter. [smirk]
At 3:56 PM,
Steve said…
Great photo. My dad took me to concerts when I was underage, too, the coolest of which was REM on the "Reckoning" tour (apparently it was on July 3, 1984; don't you love the web?)
At 3:56 PM,
Sophie Brookover said…
John Berry called me to ask for my response to it -- at least they ran it with a corrective comment!
And also: thanks re: the photo. I may love the photo on the TOC even more than the one they ran with my profile.
At 3:57 PM,
Sophie Brookover said…
Steve, my Dad took me to see R.E.M. a few months after the ill-fated Replacements gig. I think my husband would give his eye teeth to have attended the show you saw, though! Come to think of it, he probably has a bootleg copy of the show on cassette (and possibly on CD) somewhere.
At 7:21 PM,
Peter Bromberg said…
Hi Sophie,
When I read the "how sad..." comment in LJ, I laughed and I sighed. Here's what I see as the three sad elements to this affair:
Sad 1: That Ms. Skiles was not culturally literate enough to get the "encore" message of the lighter held high (with your rock star sweatshirt even offering a bit of context.)
Sad 2: That Ms. Skiles felt that her upset warranted a public scolding; enough so that she invested the time and energy to write a letter about it.
Sad 3: That LJ chose to print that letter. If they got 100 such letters and felt that they needed to print one to fairly represent a generally expressed sentiment I could understand. I'm guessing that's not the case, and I find myself feeling a bit bad for scoldy Ms. Skiles, her scoldiness exposed for all to see. But I guess she made her bed, lumpy mattress, hospital corners and all, and now she must lie in it.
In an unrelated development, I want to comment on Melissa's comment and say, ohmygod, Joe versus the Volcano is one of my favorite movies and I don't understand why it is held in such generally low regard (if it's regarded at all.) "Very interesting...As a luggage problem." If that ain't genius, I just don't know what is.
At 1:49 PM,
PoBaL said…
You know, I always read the LJ letters, and I always think, what a dumb@$$.
This won the out-of-touch and hysteric librarian award, though.
Close runner-ups are any "I hate the bun stereotype" letters I read when I'm rocking a bun that day.
At 4:44 PM,
John said…
Oh, I thought you were promoting book-burning--not smoking. That really IS bad, you ought to be ashamed!
At 9:54 PM,
Liz B said…
I guess this isn't the time to make a joke about being inspired to smoke, since all the cool kids are?
Sigh.
First concert? Hhmmm.... OK. The Bee Gees. It was a friend's 13th birthday, I believe, Madison Square Garden. My most recent concert? Harry and the Potters.
At 12:50 AM,
Steve said…
Sophie, I talk up that REM concert while playing down the Styx "Mr. Roboto" show that I saw the previous year. Dad took me to that one, too.
At 2:02 AM,
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菊花台
香水有毒
花的嫁纱
死了都要爱
听妈妈的话
一眼万年
不得不爱
老公老公我爱你
简单爱
夜的第七章
舞娘
反转地球
今天你要嫁给我
发如雪
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我不后悔
爱我别走
QQ爱
爸爸妈妈
大城小爱
寂寞沙洲冷
夜曲
离歌
白色风车
约定
羽毛
秋天不回来
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让泪化作相思雨
生日礼物
曹操
一万个理由
手放开
隐形的翅膀
狼爱上羊
我想更懂你
心雨
触电
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