<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div class="commentmeta" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: georgia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, 'times new roman', times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 390px; color: #555555;"><p class="comment-meta-1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 2px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: ; background-position: center bottom; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; height: 18px;"><cite class="fn" style="font-weight: bold; float: left; width: auto;">John Sakowicz</cite><span class="reply" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; float: right; line-height: 11px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="http://theava.com/archives/67036?replytocom=1159851#respond" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #555555; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br></a></span></p><p class="comment-meta-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 11px;">March 27, 2017 at 11:34 am</p><p class="comment-meta-2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 11px;"><br></p></div><div class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: georgia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, 'times new roman', times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; color: #555555;"><div class="c" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To the Editor:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nice piece in “Mendocino County Today” (March 27) in the AVA regarding Thomas Pynchon. Thank you.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Check out this site for all things Pynchon: <span color="#ad3b07" face="inherit" data-mce-style="color: #ad3b07; font-family: inherit;" style="color: #ad3b07; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><a href="http://thomaspynchon.com/" target="_blank">http://thomaspynchon.com/</a></span></span><a href="http://thomaspynchon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span color="#ad3b07" face="inherit" data-mce-style="color: #ad3b07; font-family: inherit;" style="color: #ad3b07; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;"><br></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As a footnote, I have often thought that the bizarre, internal politics of KZYX would make a great subject for Thomas Pynchon.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Think about it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…KZYX, also known as Mendocino County Public Broadcasting, is the final stop in the long, unhappy lives of a lot of dysfunctional, marginalized, old hippies</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…self-important, self-satisfied, self-absorbed old hippies fighting among themselves over a public radio station nobody listens to because the old hippies — you guessed it — mainly just talk to themselves, and to themselves alone, while on-air at KZYX</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…and they fight among themselves they do, in the most beautiful of places, with stunning coastlines and old growth redwoods forests</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">… a place, Mendocino County, that, weirdly, Jim Jones, Leonard Lake, Wesley Shermantine, Robert Durst, Charles Ng, and Richard Allen Davis also once called their home, not just the old hippies</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…why?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…why old hippies and serial killers co-habituating side by side?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…why find them both here at home in beautiful Mendocino County?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…because Mendocino County is a great big place, and remote, and nobody asks any questions, and it’s a good place to hide</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">…nobody brings critical thinking or reasonable inquiry to any aspect of their lives, or anybody else’s lives, here in Mendocino County, and everybody, it seems, has spun false narratives about themselves that go unchallenged in the purple haze of drugs and amnesia, while, in the background, KZYX airs yet more “essential” Grateful Dead bootlegs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If this isn’t Pynchon country, I don’t know what is.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: medium;">— John Sakowicz</span></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>