A Strange Scent from an Enormous Mountain (or Something Smells Like Stink)

How very very odd, and very very sad, this letter from Robert Olen Butler to his grad students will make you... make you... I don't know what it will make you, but it will make you do something... likely you will scratch your head and go back to whatever else you thought you should be doing. And that, quite frankly, would be the most appropriate response.

Money Changes Everything: Elizabeth Dewberry Left Robert Olen Butler To Join Ted Turner's Collection - Gawker: "Rumors will soon be swirling around the department, so I want to tell the full and nuanced story to the five of you among the graduate students and ask that you clarify the issues for any of your fellow grad students who ask. This sort of thing can get wildly distorted pretty quickly. You can feel free to use any part or all of this email to do so. I really appreciate your help.

Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it.

Elizabeth is leaving me for Ted Turner."


You may also respond with "Who is Robert Olen Butler and why the hell should I care about his breakup?" I suppose once his wife manages to break free from the "shadow of the pulitzer" she'll be living in the bright shiny gleam of Ted Turner's teeth.

The more I think about this fiasco, the more it makes me want to say, "what the hell?"

Now then. Just go back to important things, will you? I'm sorry to have bothered you.

Thanks to Pia for discovering this for us. It's always lovely to wake up to a story of people far more kucfed up than us.

And blessings. To you.

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