If you've been at AZB for any length of time, you can't help but develop not only friendships, but I real sense that you actually know the person when, in actuality, most of us only communicate here, over the phone and with emails to each other. And along with time spent here, you sort of get a feel for who's real and who's fake, who's helpful and who's a jerk.
But all that being said, no matter how much we think we know somebody here, so often, we get pleasantly surprised when we find out something we never knew about one of our friends.
John W. "JohnnyT" Terrell is one of my pals here. We got to be buds a long time ago while researching who was the Coca Cola Masked Marvels.
Since then, he has cracked me up with some of his lines. He reminds me a lot of Freddy Bentivegna...they both come off as hard boiled rogue bowery boys but they both really have soft hearts. Anyway, a week or so ago, I asked him if he ever considered writing his autobiography and he posted some smoke screen about how he's not all that important blah blah.
Then, he emails me a story he wrote entitled "Hustling under the radar", which was published as an Amazon short story! When I read it, and I'm being very serious here, not embellishing this at all, I was amazed! What a story! If you like stories of growing up hard and having to use your wits and own mind and ideas to achieve anything in life, you'll really like this story. Throw in the pool hustling angle and some other things that I don't want to let out of the bag, and you will love this story!
My only complaint is that it's not a full length book! If Jay Helfert's book that he's penning reads like this, he's got a winner also! If I had to rate this, I would give it a 5 star rating out of 5.
And I have to admit something else. Not that I ever thought JohnnyT wasn't talented. But if he hustled players anything like he hustled us here, he's something to be reckoned with. I never knew he had the literary talent he does. He comes off here like an old gangster, but man, can he put it together on paper!
Here's a link for whoever wants something great to read....
http://www.amazon.com/Hustling-Unde...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202774374&sr=1-1
But all that being said, no matter how much we think we know somebody here, so often, we get pleasantly surprised when we find out something we never knew about one of our friends.
John W. "JohnnyT" Terrell is one of my pals here. We got to be buds a long time ago while researching who was the Coca Cola Masked Marvels.
Since then, he has cracked me up with some of his lines. He reminds me a lot of Freddy Bentivegna...they both come off as hard boiled rogue bowery boys but they both really have soft hearts. Anyway, a week or so ago, I asked him if he ever considered writing his autobiography and he posted some smoke screen about how he's not all that important blah blah.
Then, he emails me a story he wrote entitled "Hustling under the radar", which was published as an Amazon short story! When I read it, and I'm being very serious here, not embellishing this at all, I was amazed! What a story! If you like stories of growing up hard and having to use your wits and own mind and ideas to achieve anything in life, you'll really like this story. Throw in the pool hustling angle and some other things that I don't want to let out of the bag, and you will love this story!
My only complaint is that it's not a full length book! If Jay Helfert's book that he's penning reads like this, he's got a winner also! If I had to rate this, I would give it a 5 star rating out of 5.
And I have to admit something else. Not that I ever thought JohnnyT wasn't talented. But if he hustled players anything like he hustled us here, he's something to be reckoned with. I never knew he had the literary talent he does. He comes off here like an old gangster, but man, can he put it together on paper!
Here's a link for whoever wants something great to read....
http://www.amazon.com/Hustling-Unde...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202774374&sr=1-1
