Adventures along the Amazon - Cracked out Hippie edition

If you search Amazon for my book HAVE A VERY BAD DAY by Richard Lovrich you will find me and my book of very short stories. A further, furtive scroll may introduce you to a few other titles. Notably, that I contributed, as photographer and or editor to “ENCORE: Proctors at 90”, written by estimable Michael Eck as well as the long windedly named, if handy “Fantastic Painted Finishes: Twenty-eight Recipes for Transforming Ordinary Objects into Extraordinary Treasures”. Guilty as tagged in both cases. Scroll a jot further however and you will find a textbook bearing the alluring if generic title ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY on its cover. This volume is self described as “This exciting new text for the Environmental Politics and/or Policy course(s) does not just look at this subject from a U.S. perspective …” Its one review adds this to the excitement: “I had to read this book for my comparative political science class and it makes me sick everytime i (sic) see the cover. I seriously hope that Brent Steel, et al (the authors of this rubbish) go down in the history books as fearmongers and cracked out hippies.” Any author would be honored to know that their work, even its cover alone, could illicit such a strong reaction and I would as well, if that is, I was the author. Dig a bit, (I did, don’t bother) and you will not find me, but you will find Nicholas P. Lovrich. Related? Likely related but not confirmed, Nicholas may be a monger of something, but is not likely a cracked-out hippie or dealer in fear but rather, Regents Professor Emeritus and a Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Washington State University. Ahem. So there is one smart, and potential monger of cheese or fish, Lovrich. In any case, he is not me and it seems that Amazon needs not much more than the coincidence of an admittedly rare if not rare sounding, name, to link and author to a work. In fact, the process of becoming the author of record on that mega platform, for HAVE A VERY BAD DAY, was alarmingly easy. This move required the filling out of one, count them, one field and waiting an interminable three minutes. I do not mean to tempt anyone, with this story of ease to claim authorship of, let’s say, THE PRINCIPIA or THE BIBLE, but if you must try, good luck, but be certain to attach your blogs using the approved RSS feed addressing. We do want to hear how you have been getting along.