Friday, September 29, 2006
The Jeffrey Archer Campaign Must Stop
A small group of regular contributors to this blog - henceforth known as The Guys - have taken to putting cunningly disguised comments on the great Jeffrey's 'official' blog. I know, in this, they are following my lead but I fear this is getting out of hand and becoming a full-blooded guerilla campaign. One recent comment by Jack turned out to be a savage and rather brilliant acrostic. Now look, The Guys, Jeffrey is fair game, but do we really want to turn his magnificent blog into an occasion for our childish humour? Do we really want to drive out every serious fan, swamping the site with subversive questions like 'What happened to Bill Oddie?' Do we? Really?
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
But hasn't that made you go back and read all your posts ?
ReplyDeleteI know, I know. I am at fault here. But, just for the hits, maybe it will make everybody else go back and read them>
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the panic encircling the blogosphere now as all hosts critically examine all messages ?
ReplyDeleteNews has already reached Philadelphia where it is a headline on booksinq.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteI thank thee, Bryan; these words content me much ...
ReplyDeleteHas it reached Connecticut yet, Bryan? (The Deblog)
ReplyDeleteNot to my knowledge, Maxine, unless you know something I don't.
ReplyDeleteI feel just like those typewriter font nerds who nailed Dan Rather must have felt, watching the man go down.
ReplyDeleteDistinctly unclever. Sigh.
I wasn't fibbing about the longtime reader bit, though. Original or not, his stories do generally at least have a certain fastfood irresistibility to them.
For us Colonials, anyway.
Just to say: I think the correct answer to the final question I posed was, in fact, 'yes'.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bryan. As I was saying at a charity do only the other day to Bill Oddie, there are jokes and there are jokes.
ReplyDeleteNo sweat, Jeff, and as my friend Peter Ackroyd always used to say of his critics - 'Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. And, now I think of it, Jonathan King, in a rare moment of wisdom, once told me he couldn't choose his friends from people who liked Una Paloma Blanca.
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ReplyDeleteUna Paloma Blanca? Afraid you have me there, Bryan. Peter Ackroyd I am aware of however, and can heartily recommend his tour de force Shakespeare: The Biography, Ackroyd's biography of the famous dramatist William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, of course, well worth checking out in his own right though you need to be aware the language can be quite difficult. Perhaps you might be interested in teaming up to produce some modernised versions of some of his better known works? Shakespeare's I mean, not Ackroyd's who writes in the modern style, except when he sometimes writes in an old-fashioned style for literary purposes like in his book Hawksmoor about an architect by the name of Hawksmoor.
ReplyDeleteShite, I got the Page Experiencing Problems page on this end and thought my post hadn't made it thru. Perhaps you could replace it with the newer one.
ReplyDeleteEr, is that right, Jeff? Rather startled by your language. Can't go down well in Grantchester, the famous village outside Cambridge.
ReplyDeleteWell, one does like to muddy the waters every now and then, Bryan. Also you can imagine I did encounter some rather coarse language when I had that trouble a while back. Anyway, got to dash. A celebrity charity swim with Rolf Harris and George Galloway to get to. Bollocks, I'm running late.
ReplyDeleteThere is a certain consistency to Mr. Archer's blog... every entry makes me want to vomit.
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