Contact — and other issues relating to bookofjoe

About two or three times a week, on average, someone leaves a comment to the effect that they tried to email me but couldn't so they're using the comments for that purpose.

Hey — I've had to do that myself on occasion with blogs that don't have an email address that I can locate.

But mine is right up top on the home page — jas1@uclalumni.net [Go Bruins!] — and I know the link works 'cause whenever someone tells me they couldn't email me I test it.

Perhaps it's the same phenomenon that leads people to send email asking me to sell them Bathing Ape shoes, Texas Native Inertia Nutcrackers (and replacement rubber bands), a License Plate Map, SHIFT bicycles, and many other things I happen to write about.

I also get requests to build another Folding Footbridge (as a private commission — I forwarded that one to Thomas Heatherwick); for the dimensions of the Hot Tub Zamboni, the residential address and home phone number of Christian R. Fabre aka Swami Pranavanendra Brahmendra Avadhuta, Mariah Carey's email address, and things of that ilk.

I try to help when I can — you know that — but even if I had private information you wanted about someone I wouldn't tell you.

You'd be surprised to learn the boldface names who read bookofjoe and decide to get in touch.

Anyhow, here's another email address for you in case the one above doesn't work: jas1@cstone.net

If that one fails too then I guess it's back to the old comment trick.

Glancing up at the topics I alluded to above I realize that this is one weird blog, dudette and dude....