Mea Gulpa

Writer Salman Rushdie is coming to town, and I recalled I wrote a column about his troubles. It was a peach, in my fuzzy memory, so surely I had posted it online, right?

Well, it is there, now. It was from 1989, and I had to type it in earlier today because I wrote it in the Little Rock newsroom and never transferred the file to a home computer. I didn’t have one until 1994, anyway.

Then, a mea culpa moment. I saw that a column that I did put on www.benpollock.com (they’re representative — I can’t tell if they’re any good now) actually only was a place-holder with dummy words. The more I looked. … Eighteen files were essentially blank. Gulp.

Well, they are there, now. -30-