daniel pinkwater is my hero
As a child, one of my favorite books was Fat Men From Space. The plot is essentially, a boy gets a filling and he can hear aliens. Those aliens look like Drew Carey, and attack the US for its junk food. He barters peace. This totally fed my love of conspiracy theories and hocus pocus (the DDC 000s were my friend as a child).
Every once in a while I see what Daniel Pinkwater (the author of Fat Men From Space) is up to. I was looking up his books and noticed that in a few online databases (those not using MARC), not all of them have all of his books tied together because his name is different on many of them.
That’s when I read this about him on his wiki page:
Pinkwater varies his name slightly between books (”Daniel Pinkwater”, “Daniel M. Pinkwater”, “Daniel Manus Pinkwater”, “D. Manus Pinkwater”, etc.); allegedly, he claims that he does this in order to annoy the librarians who have to catalogue his books.
I love you Daniel Pinkwater. Now more than ever. Personally, and professionally.
9 Comments so far
1. Kurt wrote on August 27th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Oh, <3 !!!
2. Kurt wrote on August 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
By the way:
100 1_ |a Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, |d 1941-
400 1_ |a Pinkwater, Manus, |d 1941-
400 1_ |a Pinkwater, Daniel, |d 1941-
400 1_ |a Pinkwater, Daniel M. |q (Daniel Manus), |d 1941-
<3
3. jennybento wrote on August 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Interesting–it doesn’t have D. Manus Pinkwater. Who has cred to fix this?
4. Kurt wrote on August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Since I’m monopolizing your comments, check out what I found in the neighborhood of Pinkwater:
110 2_ |a Pinky & Perky (Musical group)
410 2_ |a Pinky and Perky (Musical group)
670 __ |a Four historic Ed Sullivan shows …, 2003: |b sleeve (Pinky & Perky)
670 __ |a World of Pinky & Perky WWW site, Feb. 16, 2006 |b (Pinky & Perky; Pinky and Perky; singing piglet puppets)
Singing piglet puppets!!!!
http://www.pinkyandperky.com/frames/index.htm
5. jenny wrote on August 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
now i shall never get to sleep…the horror, the horror.
6. nanette wrote on August 28th, 2008 at 5:28 am
I’m partial to Lizard Music, myself.
As for the name issue, if they aren’t collocated, that’s just shitty authority control. This makes me want to grab a Pinkwater book where the unauthorized form of his name appears on the title page so I can torment my cataloging students with it.
7. Sarah wrote on September 1st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
My favorite book of his has to be The Big Orange Splot. I think all suburbia should be redone according to this book . . .
Sarah
8. Kasey wrote on September 20th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
omg. potato pancakes. I didn’t even know what potato pancakes were until I read that.
9. Pepe wrote on May 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I too, love DMP. I have tormented my children with his picture books (Big Orange Splot, Tooth Gnasher Superflash among others) as well as his novels. I think that we’ve all turned out better whatever we are’s for his influence.