please tell me why i should buy your book, and then i will consider it :-)
― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)
Please buy my bookThere's a link, go have a look.
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)
From the writeup, there's two words that could make me go either way on this one: "tick" and "testicles".
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)
I suppose I don't really want you to buy it. I would love you to read it, though. Email your snail address to my inbox, and I'll send you a free copy, donna.
― Rogan Whitenails, Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)
yay! thanks. you do realise that i am on the other side of the planet though?
― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)
thank you, that is very nice of you rogan.
― donna (donna), Thursday, 5 December 2002 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)
The Boom Op. Blues (working temporarily as a background artist)
This is a tale of bits, made whole,
When bound in the mouths that tell it;
A tale of debris - the bones of a vole,
Scuffling inside a pellet
Deposited by an owl;
A tale of failure and detritus;
Of going from Tie-Rack to Titus
In two days - so distant:
Playing a scrawny sales assistant,
Serving the actors who starred,
Then playing a Roman guard,
Behind a gladiator.
I should be a boom operator,
A dubbing mixer, sound recordist;
My life is the fading scent on my wrist -
A perfume bottle - the Tester;
And I am Electromancer’s jester.
My life is last-orders, the coded bell;
My life is the tale that no one will tell
(Its bits are far too bitty);
Pyrotechnical self-pity,
Panic attacks, the dole:
A tale of debris, the bones of a vole.
The infinite emoticon,
The omniscient soul -
And God googles everyone,
Except the scuffling vole;
Except, it seems, the scuffling vole.
www.electromancer.com
― Rogan Whitenails, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)