Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:30:08 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Mike Walsh and cooking
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> myeh at wap.org 10/18/04 3:33:30 PM >>>
>   Does anyone know if Mike Walsh can cook?

Microwave, boil water, and . . .  well, not a whole lot else.

>    Mike Walsh agreeed to bake me a cake for this last
>weekend,
>and  forgot about it.

I plead the Frankfurter defense.  I had just come back from Fankfurt
and totally misread Madeline's ever so short email.  My brain, such as
it ever is, was still somewhere over the atlantic.

>Before I start a major campaign to
>get him to bake a cake, I am trying to plan a cost benefit
>analysis.

How good are your health benefits?

>  If a few emails will get him to bake a cake with his own
>little hands

Lordy, I've been acused of many things but having "little hands" ain't
one.

>that would produce amusement and enjoyment for the
>multitudes it would
>obviously be worthwhile.
>   If it would take a year of letters, and email, and
>personal confrontation to get something that would only be
>fit to use in a food
>fight, the effort would be more than the cake would be
>worth.
>   However if I got Mike to live up to his side of the
> bargain, it would
>balance the books and be asthetically satisfying
>reguardless of the quality of the cake.

Hmmm.  Jalapeno flavored cake? Tequile (with the worm) flavored cake?
Hmmmmm . . .this could be ever so amusing . . .

>    Any opinions?  Does Mike bake well?  Would getting
>hime to bake anything take a lot of work?
>   I've been told that murdering Mike is out of the
>question until after Capclave. :)

Absolutely.  You'd have to put on Capclave.  & continue Old Earth Books
. . . you have heard about the planned illustrated Gor books?  & the
John Norman/Joanna Russ mud wrestling video?

mjw

>     Madeleine
>