Only if he paid for his own cell ...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Mason" <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:35
PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Northerns: Smith
> Sorry, Kevin--didn't mean to hit a sore point! When
I think of northerns,
I
> tend to forget about the Dudley Do-Right stuff in
favor of the northerns
> written by folk who knew what they were talking
about and weren't afraid
to
> write so, from Jack London onward.
>
> Btw, the fantasy you have of DC below (incorporating
both One Man Standing
> Tall and his cell phone), as I think George
Pelecanos can attest, is
> currently being played out every week on CBS as THE
DISTRICT. TM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Burton Smith [mailto:
kvnsmith@colba.net]
>
> It would be almost like Canadians expecting to see
slaves picking
> cotton in Colorado, or to see the Washington, D.C.
chief of police
> wearing a big star on his vest and twin Colt
Peacemakers hung low,
> marching down Main Street alone at high noon for a
showdown with some
> dangerous desperado. Instead of just using his cell
to call in the
> SWAT team.
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