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                       Pulp Valley of the Fiction Dolls

> From: "Mel" <XXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls on DVD (Digital Video Disc)
> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:22:48 -0700
>
> Hi,
>
> I just found your Pulp Fiction blog entry:
> http://boston.conman.org/2006/05/26.5 [1] and I think you may be of some
> help to me. I'm reaching out to you on behalf of Fox Entertainment and M80
> regarding the DVD release of Russ Meyer's film Beyond The Valley Of The
> Dolls and Mark Robson's film Valley Of The Dolls. Since you mentioned Pulp
> Fiction, I thought that you might be interested in posting the press
> release or a review of the film on your blog? You seem like a reputable
> influencer, so I think you'd be a big help to us.
>
> Please let me know if you're interested!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mel, M80
>  XXXXXXXXXXXXX
>  www.m80im.com / www.m80teams.com
>

Wow … that was certainly quick, given that I wrote about “Pulp Fiction” [2]
only last week.

But I have to wonder what the heck “Valley of the Dolls” [3] and “Beyond the
Valley of the Dolls” [4] have to do with “Pulp Fiction”. Is it perhaps
because “Valley of the Dolls” and “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” are based
upon pulp fiction books? All three deal with crime, drugs and large cities?
They all are Fox Entertainment [5] properties?

Who knows? Mel certainly didn't explain how “Pulp Fiction” has anything to do
with the “Valley” films, nor why I would necessarily care.

In any case, I haven't seen either of the “Valley” movies, so I can't review
them (nor do I have any desire to see them) and I don't know why he thinks
I'm a “reputable influencer” (thanks anyway!) given that my readership is
perhaps a few dozen people at best.

It's even more puzzling in that I think I found the search Mel used to find
me [6], and it's mostly links to posts about actual pulp fiction books, not
the film “Pulp Fiction.” I wonder how many sites Mel sent email to? [but no,
I did not respond to him, because 1) it's puzzling, and 2) I'm writing this
several days after the fact. —Editor]

And it's snarky comments like these that mean I'll probably never make any
real money at blogging.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/26.5
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062430/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/
[5] http://www.foxhome.com/
[6] http://search.blogger.com/?q=%22Pulp+Fiction%22&btnG=Search+Blogs&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&ui=blg

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