Joel Stein: “Don’t e-mail me….Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don’t listen to them either. That sound on the phone, Mom, is me typing.”
Other things Joel doesn’t like: friends, fun, the future, kids on his lawn. It’s a shame he doesn’t check his email, because my girlfriend keeps sending him mash notes. Oh well.