A big welcome to CultureGrrl‘s first subscriber, Jim of Chadds Ford (no relation to the Wyeth clan, as far as I can tell).
As promised, Jim gets a free autographed copy of my book, The Complete Guide to Collecting Art (Knopf), And Jim, you didn’t know this, but as my Number One supporter, you also get a free kiss from Lee of Fort Lee, next time you’re in the area. (You KNOW the Boston Globe called me “fast”!)
As for the rest of you CultureGrrl fans, please scroll down my righthand column to see how you too can demonstrate your love. (No more kisses. Maybe a cyber-hug.) Four more of you can still get a free autographed copy of my juvenilia. And the rest of you can have the satisfaction of contributing to the “Buy Lee a Laptop” fund, so that I can never use traveling as an excuse for not blogging!
Many of you have helpfully suggested that I use PayPal to exact this tribute online. But I’ve been there, done that and immediately started getting phishing e-mails (the first purporting to be from PayPal itself). This could be a complete coincidence, but it spooked me enough to decide to try to do this the old-fashioned way. Somewhere, gathering dust, you techies must still have a checkbook and a pen. Remember how to use those? (Sorry, I should have asked nicely!)