At 01:32 AM 8/8/2002 -0500, Ken Padgett wrote:
> >...
>I've figured out who the three I listed above are, but my question to others
>more observant than me is who are Phent ("...who doesn't lie quite as much,
>but he's about as incompetent and he charges twice what everyone else
>does.") and Greenbough ("He's not too bad when he isn't drunk.")
Answered in
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7r7pn1%245dk%241%40agate-ether.berkeley.edu>,
originally posted by David Goldfarb, excerpted below:
***
) ...is Brust poking fun at the SF publishing industry? And, if so,
) who are Phent and Greenbough?
When Brust signed at The Other Change of Hobbit in early '92 I asked him
about this. He said they were Minneapolis-area music promoters that he
didn't like. It strikes me as somewhat cheating to mix media like that, but
I don't get a vote.
***
Mike