Valentino! How are you?
January 23, 2008
Oh, Wally! I’m fine, really. I am doing much better actually, those incessant welts on my lower thighs have receded quite a bit since our last game of cricket…and since we’re on the subject, i’ve begun my first novella. I have been toying with a few possible titles and wanted to bounce a few of them off you this afternoon if your attention span will permit it. How about a liberal sprinkling of some Earl Grey tea? I have a few bags of the stuff still left in my jacket pocket if you want to sip on some whilst we get down to tin needles, or whatever the saying is. Anyhow, i’ve been spotted a bit too much over at the Women’s Community Centre this week…i’ll bet it’s been about six times in the last two and a half days. Problematic, I suppose. Well, anyway, I have this novella i’ve been doing called “A Midnight’s Gathering of Unsavory People Under the Gazebo in a Park near the Southern Part of France or maybe Portugal, Actually”…it’s a working title, mind you. I have most of the biography section written already as well…here, i’ll read you a passage from the 18 pages I have so far…
“Valentino Pulperton was born with an incredibly sharp intuition and a bulging sense of understanding towards the opposite sex…he has five train sets and probably could sell them all on eBay and not even care about them any more because he is a grown man so just drop it. He can do twenty push-ups in a row without his face getting too red. He appreciates nice letters from girls and prefers that men just nod to him in a low-key way on the street to show respect. He has a large collection of high-end turtlenecks.”
So, i’m thinking about submitting the finished book to Random Hut and a few other really big ones too…I wrote them down on this bagel receipt…I musn’t lose it!
