Headpots of Arkansas

From: Frank M. Bodkin
To: poo@cts.com
Subject: Question about quote
Where did this quote come from about the juices from dried beattle bugs that is on the page about head pots at
www.ralphmag.org/FQ/headpots.html
...juices leeched from the dried beetle-bugs of Pemiscot County, melded with bristletail grub-juice and hops. Or, best of them all, sweet, sugary Pecan Wine ... potted in their head pots from Pecan Point, Arkansas, aged six months with good old sour mash and pine-gum pudding.

Hi, Frank:
And thanks for your email.
That stuff in the review about "sour mash and pine-gum pudding?"
We suspect that reviewer Amantea made it all up. He is very --- how shall we say it? --- lapidary in his writing.
Still, we are fond of his strange constructs, which may or may not be stranger than those headpots.

From: Bobmetnews@aol.com
Subject: Porgie
To: carlosamantea@yahoo.com
Does West Cost still offer the Porgie Award for first novels?

--- Bob Nesoff
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Hi, Bob:
Porgie? Porgie? The last time we heard of a Porgie was in Gershwin's Porgie & Bess. Are we out of it?
--- Lolita Lark
Ed
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From: Bobmetnews@aol.com
Subject: Re: Porgie
To: carlosamantea@yahoo.com
Guess we show our ages when we admit we remember Porgie & Bess.
Some years ago a friend of mine listed the "Porgie Award" from your organization as being presented for his first novel. My first just came out last month and I had wondered about it.
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Re: Porgie
From: carlosamantea@yahoo.com
To: Bobmetnews@aol.com
Hi, Bob:
But we show our age even more when we remember it was spelled (wasn't it?) "Porgy." And you mentioed "West Cost" --- I presume you meant the "West Coast Review of Books." That ain't us. [Thank the lord.]