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Originally Posted by tompe
If you refer to the thing about real job in this thread I can say that this was meant as irony or as an example of a stupid question on the same level as the stupid question HarryT posed. It was intended to show that HarryT's point was irrelevant or misguided. I admit it was very badly formulated so I see why this was not clear...
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I appreciate your expanding on this, because I confess I'd missed the irony too.
Connor Cochran here -- Peter's business manager, and president of Conlan Press (which is an amusing title, given that the company is still basically just me and some part-time occasional help).
In general, on this Peter/job thing, for anyone that cares, let me just say that Peter
has a job -- he's a writer. And a productive one, too, with over 700,00 words of new fiction and nonfiction plus 53 new songs and poems on the ledger since he and I started working together in late 2001. The reason that his finances are still precarious, despite that output, is that he's been clawing his way out of a hideously deep pit created by decades of cheating publishers and entertainment companies, which was then exacerbated by private family problems stemming from the death of his mother in 2006. To be frank, no one should have to be dealing with these things, let alone a very nice gentleman of 71 years. But he maintains a reasonably good humor about life, he keeps on writing, and me and some other folks are working with him to solve the old problems and pursue new possibilities. There are only a couple of Really Big Issues left (such as Granada Media selling close to 2 millions
Last Unicorn DVDs worldwide, but refusing to pay Peter anything) but eventually even those will be behind us, which will be a great relief.