# I wanna send something to James Lileks! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380 "2002-06-11T03:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/1 "2002-06-11T03:27:38Z")
Those of you who are familiar with [www.lileks.com](http://www.lileks.com) or own a copy of **The Gallery of Regrettable Food** may remember his discourse on “Volume 10: Hot-Lan” of the Family Circle Illustrated Library of Cooking. I found three more volumes of this series in a used bookstore today. Volume 1: A-Bev Volume 12: Pas-Pie Volume 14: San-Sea I want to send them to him, but I’m wondering how to go about it. I can’t get his e-mail from the site. I don’t have the “default mail client”, whatever that is. Can anyone help me out? He’s made the address public; it’s just that I can’t see it. I could go ahead and send them unannounced, but in these paranoid times, I feel I should give him a heads-up. And I’d like to be sure he doesn’t already have these. “Dear Mr. Lileks, I found three more volumes of the Family Circle series. Please accept them from a devoted fan.” Whaddya think? ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/2 "2002-06-11T04:08:59Z")
[lileks@lileks.com](mailto:lileks@lileks.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/3 "2002-06-11T04:13:00Z")
Bless you, **Alphagene**! ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/4 "2002-06-11T04:15:37Z")
If you run into that problem again - I assume the mailing address is a link, and you click on it and are told it can’t go through because you don’t have a default mail client specified - then just right-click on the link, and select “Properties” from the menu that pops up; the window you get then will have the address displayed. It’ll say “[mailto:whatever@whatever.whatever](mailto:whatever@whatever.whatever)”, and if you take the “mailto:” bit off, you’ve got your email address. Assuming, of course, you’re running Windows. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/5 "2002-06-11T05:53:24Z")
D’oh! Thank you, **racinchikki!** ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/6 "2002-06-11T09:20:20Z")
You could also probably mail him in care of the [Minneapolis Star-Tribune.](http://startribune.com/stories/776/26421.html) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wanna-send-something-to-james-lileks/113380/7 "2002-06-12T00:57:18Z")
He also registered here at one point, so he may be contacting YOU!!