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Some habitual liars say Anthony Peyton Porter left Chicago in the mid-eighties, settling first in Saint Paul and then in Minneapolis, where he was heard to say whatever he happened to be thinking on Write On Radio!, KTCA, and KNOW. After fleeing Minnesota with his accomplices in 2003, he turned up in Chico, California, doing the same damn thing on KZFR, just like nothing had happened. Defying public outcry, the Chico News & Review continues to publish his weekly column, From the Edge. A regular reader gushes, "I have rarely been this turned off by an author. In these few columns I have read of his, he has defiled teachers, children, and dogs." (Mr. Porter has not defiled any dogs since the 1950s and wishes certain people would get on with their lives.) Mr. Porter finally admitted responsibility for the quotations on the walls of the Clayton-Jackson-McGhie Memorial, at First Street and Second Avenue East in Duluth, Minnesota. Carla Stetson designed the memorial, and it's a stunner. Go see it. Incredibly, KZFR has fallen into its old ways and begun broadcasting From the Edge yet again, at 9:57am Saturdays and 9:57pm Thursdays. The significance of the times is known to a select few. Nobody you know. Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston, can still be found at Barnes & Noble, amazon.com, and poorly supervised children's bookstores. A few copies of Can He Say That? are gathering dust at Lyon Books across from the plaza in downtown Chico, Black Oak Books in Berkeley, and Carol's Books in Sacramento. He has been repeatedly accused of poetry by people who ought to know, and yet he remains at large in California. It figures. |