4 thoughts on “The List by John Horn”

1. I wonder if you should include your explanation with each edition: “Every Saturday, Editor-in-Chief John Horn provides a short, snappy and hilarious update of community-minded miscellany called “The List” – we hope you engage in commentary with this feature and that you tell your friends about it. Most importantly, we hope you have fun with it!”

2. John- at risk of finding myself “on notice”, or worse, I feel that I must point out that self plagiarism is still plagiarism. In particular, there is quite a bit of repetition in this “list” of yours from week to week (please see http://dailygumboot.ca/the-list-by-john-horn/).

   Letting us know that you still love your wife and are still unimpressed by London’s Olympic mascots, as well keeping us up to date on your changing fortunes in “Settlers of Catan” simply doesn’t cut it, even in the dying days of summer.

   Don’t let us down, John.

3. Julian, you’re missing the point. The List is added to and subtracted from each week – there will always be overlap because, well, some things will make myself smile for a long, long time and, well, once something is dead to me it will probably stay on that section for a long, long time. Part of the fun of keeping something “On Notice” or “Making My Heart Smile” for a few weeks is that, once it’s gone, people will ask a ton of questions about where it went and why it happened.

   As for you being on notice, well, that’s kind of impossible because I think you’re great.

   Thanks for the feedback!

   John

4. Ah, I see. But if something disappears from the “Dead to me” list, does that mean that you have come to terms with your grief, or that it has somehow been rehabilitated?