I've been an ardent
follower of Dave Barry's work for quite a while and decided now to share the
material of his I searched for (and found!) on the Internet.
I'm not going to publish anything here (for copyright law reasons) but will paste a few links I found quite useful during my research. Also, I downloaded a lot of stuff for my own personal and private enjoyment and if you, as a private person, turn to me via e-mail and ask me for specific articles or columns, I'm more than happy to send them to you by e-mail. I'll list what I have collected so far and you can let me know if you're interested in any of it and if so, what exactly.
First of all,
there's the official Dave Barry homepage to be found at
http://www.davebarry.com
I find particularly entertaining the section under 'Stuff' where his annual
holiday gift guides are introduced (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), but all
the other categories are worth to be looked at, too.
A selection of
his most recent columns can be found at the official page of the Miami Herald
at
http://www.miamiherald.com/dave_barry/
Particularly entertaining are his recent comments on the 2004 election process
and his upcoming reports on the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens
Additionally,
you can log on to the Holland Sentinel's homepage at http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HSHH&p_theme=gatehouse&p_action=keyword
put in "Dave Barry" (including quotation marks) in the keyword search
field and then you get a list of quite a few columns from the period between
1997 through now.
This is a link
to the homepage of The Daily Beacon
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/search.php
Again, you have to type "Dave Barry" (mind the quotation marks!) into
the search field "search the whole article" and then a list with lots
of his columns will appear.
And now a few words about my personal Dave Barry collection which I downloaded from the Internet - mainly from the sources mentioned above.
I've got stuff
from 1992 through 2004. I also got some pre-1992 columns but there are really
not that much of them.
They are
primarily his weekly columns published in the Miami Herald and other newspapers.
Also included are a few Holiday Gift Guides and 'Yearenders' (his special reviews
of the year's events). Some years yielded a bigger harvest, others didn't.
This is what I collected so far (as of March 2006):
pre 1992
1985:
1 columns
1986: Yearender plus 1 column
1987: 4 columns
1989: 4 columns
1990: Yearender plus 3 columns
1991: Yearender plus 1 column
1992
4 parts
of the Bad Song Contest
August, December - 1 column each
1993
January,
February, March, April, June, August, September - 1 column each
October - 2
November - 4
December - 3
plus
5 indeterminable columns
1994
March,
July, October, November, December - 4 columns each (complete)
May, September - 3 columns each
January, April, June, August - 2 columns each
February - 1 column
1995
January,
May, June, August, September, October, November - complete (4 - 5 columns each)
February, March, April, July - 2 columns each
December - 1 column
1996
1996
Yearender (in 3 parts)
Review of the 1996 Olympics
Dave's coverage of the 1996 Conventions/Presidential Elections
April- 1
column each
July, August - 2 columns
January, February - 4 columns
1997
1997
Holiday Gift Guide
November, December - 2 columns
January, June, August, September - 1 column each
May - 2 columns
1998
a nearly
complete year - just 1 column is missing from the beginning of November
including 1998 Yearender
including extensive coverage of the 1998 Nagaon Olympic Winter Games
1999
1999
Holiday Gift guide
January, February, March, April, May, June, August, November - complete (4-5
columns each)
September, October -3 columns
December - 2 columns
2000
a complete
year plus
2000 Yearender (Review of 2000)
2000 Holiday Gift Guide and
Millennium Review (written at the beginning of January 2000)
2001
also a complete year including the
2001 Annual Holiday Gift Guide
2002
a complete
year plus
2002 Yearender plus
2002 Holiday Gift Guide plus
extensive coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games
2003
a complete
year plus
2003 Holiday Gift Guide and
2003 Yearender
2004
so far
collected:
a complete year plus
Dave's coverage of the 2004 Presidential Race
(Iowa caucus, New Hampshire primary, Democratic Convention Boston, Republican
Conventin in NYC) and
Dave's coverage of the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens/Greece plus
Dave's 2004 Gift Guide and
Dave's 2004 Yearender
2005
- 2006 - 2007 - 2008
Dave
is on hiatus
all the new columns published including the ones on Olympic games and other
sports events, Super Bowls, presidential elections and some other stuff
2005, 2006, 2007 Holiday Gift Guide and
2005 , 2006, 2007 Yearender
Let me know if
you're interested in any of the columns I collected - I'll zip them and e-mail
them to you. If the attachment is getting too large to be e-mailed, I'll upload
the zip file to my site's server and send you the link, so that you can download
it from there. But that I'll do only as an exception.
To get into touch with me please send me an e-mail.
barbara
[at] diewiegels [dot] de
(leave
out the blanks)
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latest update: October 26, 2008