Comments on: Ant Noise, Part 2

By: Jane Vandenburgh

Jane Vandenburgh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:45:10 +0000

Almost certainly we are related, are your people related to the CB Vandenburghs in Illinois or to the Senator? we are all descended from those two same (drunken) brothers who got THROWN OUT of the Netherlands and came to a little hillock a little north of Troy, NY, in 1644….and everybody spells the name all whichway. It was my great grandfather Burton who decided on the all-one-word, no caps, of our little tribe out here in California….

By: Jane Vandenburgh

Jane Vandenburgh — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:41:47 +0000

Yours, Steve, is without doubt the majority opinion in that the second half of the book is just FULL of these “wild tangents,” as you put it but, see? I’m the kind of writer, also person, who just LOVES the wild tangent, in that I actually don’t know what I’m going to think until I go ahead and allow myself to think it, and that first half of the book’s probably ABOUT what happened and the second’s ABOUT what I think about what happened and that kind of thing isn’t everybody’s cuppa tea, but oh well….? thanks for your comment, tho, and particularly from buying my book and actually reading it as I’m a little ashamed that it is just SO LONG and you should have seen it before my editor got ahold of it…..

By: Jean Eng

Jean Eng — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:26:42 +0000

Hey are you related to me? My last name used to be VanDenburgh and I was born in Gary, Indiana 57 years ago. I seem to recall being related to a Jane VanDenburgh. I stumbled on your blog and loved it.

By: steve flaks

steve flaks — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:45:11 +0000

I just read ” pocket history of sex “. I thought the first half was as good as anything I’ve read in a very long time. The second half while pretty good did not measure up. There were too many wild tangents that sometimes I had trouble following. All in all though its a very good book.
One question. What ever became of your brother Geo.