Comments on: All about the hits? http://sjhoward.co.uk/archive/2007/01/22/all-about-the-hits Reactionary, ill-informed, fabulous Mon, 21 May 2012 20:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sjhoward http://sjhoward.co.uk/archive/2007/01/22/all-about-the-hits/comment-page-1#comment-64725 sjhoward Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:36:14 +0000 http://sjhoward.co.uk/archive/2007/01/22/all-about-the-hits#comment-64725 I certainly don't plan to give up what I love doing, and thanks for saying you'll always read it. In fact, thanks for all of your kind comment. They are very much appreciated. I certainly don’t plan to give up what I love doing, and thanks for saying you’ll always read it.

In fact, thanks for all of your kind comment. They are very much appreciated.

]]> By: Mort Karman http://sjhoward.co.uk/archive/2007/01/22/all-about-the-hits/comment-page-1#comment-63551 Mort Karman Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:02:16 +0000 http://sjhoward.co.uk/archive/2007/01/22/all-about-the-hits#comment-63551 Simon, please continue to blog. Not only is it interesting to those of us who read, but it is also an outlet from yourself to yourself. I have been a journalist since I was 14, working on a weekly newspaper while in high school. I have since gone on to major newspapers and magazines and radio and television. At 63 I have diabetes and several other medical complications and my fingers are so crippled I have trouble typing the stories, yet when my byline appears I still get as much of a thrill as when the first stories and photos appeared. May you never give up your creative urges. I am sure you will one day become a fine doctor and earn a lot more money then a struggling journalist. But don't ever give up what you love to do. Writing, or photography, is better then all the anti-depressant or high tension meds people take to control the problems which are a part of normal life. As an example, I tried to work for All Headline News because I got tired of sitting on my hindquarter and doing nothing. It was a disaster. Some group used my name and AHN as a lead in to a porn site. That is not the type of photography this grandpa does.I had to face family and friends who taunted me about the whole thing. People would ask me if I worked for "Ass Hole News". If you saw the horrible, very graphic photos, you would instantly know why they called it that.I got the sites taken off after several weeks (on the other hand two neighbour ladies asked if they could pose for the next set of pix). To add insult to injury, All Headline News still owes me close to $800 from several months ago. They have more excuses for not sending a cheque then my first wife had at bedtime I have not given up though and I still intend to write and photograph the world as I see it. You do the same. I tell you this in the same tone as I speak to my grandchildren. The world is yours and you have to do something with it to make it better. My generation did. (I know some people would argue that-but we did not, at least yet, have an atomic war and many, many people are really better off then the previous gerneration) So keep writing Simon. And I will keep reading what you have to say. Simon, please continue to blog.
Not only is it interesting to those of us who read, but it is also an outlet from yourself to yourself.
I have been a journalist since I was 14, working on a weekly newspaper while in high school.
I have since gone on to major newspapers and magazines and radio and television.
At 63 I have diabetes and several other medical complications and my fingers are so crippled I have trouble typing the stories, yet when my byline appears I still get as much of a thrill as when the first stories and photos appeared.
May you never give up your creative urges.
I am sure you will one day become a fine doctor and earn a lot more money then a struggling journalist.
But don’t ever give up what you love to do.
Writing, or photography, is better then all the anti-depressant or high tension meds people take to control the problems which are a part of normal life.
As an example, I tried to work for All Headline News because I got tired of sitting on my hindquarter and doing nothing.
It was a disaster.
Some group used my name and AHN as a lead in to a porn site.
That is not the type of photography this grandpa does.I had to face family and friends who taunted me about the whole thing.
People would ask me if I worked for “Ass Hole News”. If you saw the horrible, very graphic photos, you would instantly know why they called it that.I got the sites taken off after several weeks (on the other hand two neighbour ladies asked if they could pose for the next set of pix).
To add insult to injury, All Headline News still owes me close to $800 from several months ago.
They have more excuses for not sending a cheque then my first wife had at bedtime
I have not given up though and I still intend to write and photograph the world as I see it.
You do the same.
I tell you this in the same tone as I speak to my grandchildren.
The world is yours and you have to do something with it to make it better.
My generation did. (I know some people would argue that-but we did not, at least yet, have an atomic war and many, many people are really better off then the previous gerneration)
So keep writing Simon. And I will keep reading what you have to say.

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