The Vintage Reader

I'm afraid I've offended one of my regular readers--possibly my ONLY regular reader--by trying too hard to be snarky and funny, when really, that's not my thing. Dorothy Parker I ain't, and it wouldn't be the first time I put my foot in it. In 1981 I lost a pen pal I got through Starlog magazine that way after only a few letters. (I just Googled him and found that he's either a soccer coach, a game designer, or the dean of a community college in the next county over from me. Or maybe none of the above. Just going by the whole "put-a-pen-pal-ad-in-Starlog-in-9th-grade" thing, though, I'd say game designer is a good bet.)

Anyway, I'm sorry if I was out of line--I didn't mean to be, really. I'm just a little socially inept, even in the virtual world.