How Crawford Got His Pen

Lotusland'sMostProlific
BloggodomeVille


If you've spent anytime at all hanging around the pixel heaps of Lotusland you've probably run into the words of the extremely prolific Crawford Kilian.

And most of the time those words have something pretty darned interesting to say.

Anyway......

It turns out that Mr. K. really has had a most interesting life, and Tom Hawthorn tells us all about in today's Globe.

My favorite part is about the young Crawford's befriending of Dalton Trumbo in Mexico City after his Dad moved the family there because he, like Trumbo, had been blacklisted for refusing to name names in front of the HUAC committee.


________
Full Disclosure: Mr. Kilian, who also scours local blogsites on behalf of the Big Fish, almost made my head explode when something he (I think) wrote there pushed this particular F-troop list blogs traffic up exponentially (although 10 times small is still pretty darned small) for a couple of weeks during the recent provincial election campaign......And here's the real kicker....If you read Tom Hawthorn's piece carefully, those that know a little bit about my background in the real world (apparently it took Laila about 30 seconds to figure that out because, unlike a certain prominent local pro-media reporter, Ms. Y. actually knows how to use the 'Teh'), it turns out that Mr. K. and I once worked at the same fed gov. installation at the top of Strawberry Canyon.

.