Norman Mailer

I think about Norman Mailer from time to time.  If anything his name would be the most appropriate in my mind to report upon and I had just googled him and learned a few things I never knew about him.  I didn't know he was considered a journalist I just knew him as a writer of books especially his run away best seller.  Would he not be an inspiration to me nowadays?  One might think so.  He was the first celebrity I had called upon as a then news talk show caller to a radio news talk show.  Ronn Owens was the news talk show host out here in the West Coast of the famous city of San Francisco.  I was told he gets more listeners out here than the most listen to radio talk show host Russ Limbaugh the conservative talk show host.  It never dawned on me that I had thought about being a writer as I read a letter I had sent to a minister about my dream of becoming a writer.

It is  a grand opportunity to meet him in person.  Yes, I agree it would have been the best thing in my life to meet Norman Mailer in person and then I would have known more what it might be like to be a real journalist.  Ronn Owens however did meet him in person but then again it was special for me to speak with him and be broadcast on the radio after all he was the famous writing star while I was involved at the time he made his appearance as just a talk show caller unknown to anyone.  No, I'm not making this up.  Coworker Larry Cummins was working on a house he was  building in addition to being a LSM operator as I had done for eighteen years being quite familiar with the chosen news talk radio station. Larry Cummins recalled my conversation with the greatest writer of all time and I a nobody talking on the air as an insignificant listener to the radio station who happened to pick up the phone to ask Norman Mailer what he proposes to write about if there were more killers like Lee Harvy Osward the man accused of the assignation of JFK.  It was not too many months ago when the seasoned comedy specialist Brian Copeland was asking various members of the audience how they felt regarding this rare occasion of one of our beloved leaders of this country of the United States of America.