Original Publication Date: 6/10/08
“…Tesla Girls…Tesla Girls…I’m in love with Tesla Girls…”
Gotta love OMD and you gotta love the fact these guys got back together some 20 years after parting ways to release a live DVD of one of their classic albums, then deliver another 12 of their delicious hit songs. But seriously, what the hell is a Tesla Girl? If they’re any good, maybe they have brothers? Mmm…Tesla Boys!
OMD's Tesla Girls
Oh, a quick thank you to all the people who’ve added me in the last month! It’s kinda cool telling my boyfriend “Sorry, sweetie, I can’t run out to T.J. Maxx with you. I have almost 700 friends to talk this weekend.” And yes, he usually replies with a sharply ironical taunt or sneering remark (aka sarcasm).
Some of you have seen the book covers I’ve posted in the picture section. Thank you for your feedback on that page and through e-mail. Much appreciated. I’ve got a funny story about the “Andy Stevenson Vs…” cover for you, too.
The publisher told me several months back that they were going to shorten the title to simply “Lord of the Loins” because:
a: the title was too long (I like long titles…yeah, size queen…I can hear you thinking it…and you’re right, which can be evidenced by looking at my guy’s equipment, which you can’t)
b: they could cash in on the whole Lord of the Rings thing…not that anybody would ever, ever, ever cash in on something somebody else already did (pssssst…it’s called “parody”)
So, I gear my entire media/promotion/machine/thing to that title only to receive the cover in e-mail the other day with the original longer title prominently displayed. I sorta win. Am still debating that one because it’s going to confuse a few people who are expecting one thing and getting another. The cover is the same way. It says “gay superhero” when in fact the character in the book is a bit of a teenage version of Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes…if Calvin was gay. I think I’m a little bit like Calvin…if Calvin was gay, poorish, not a twink, listened to OMD and was incredibly well-endowed.
Oh, EVIL alert! Yes, my partner’s Grandmonster from Hong Kong will be invading in a few short weeks. You know all those ungodly heatwaves, tornadoes, floods, droughts and other unexplained phenomena we’ve been having lately? Don’t call them tragedies or oddities in nature. Let’s just be honest about what they really are; practice. The planet is getting ready for a shift of evil from one hemisphere to the other.
So, watch out and be safe, will ya?
I’ll be posting reminders in the next couple of weeks about the upcoming book launch on the 28th and, if I can manage, I’ll send out personal e-mails to local folks just in case you miss the bulletins. I find that with lots of friends on a page, bulletins go by rather quickly. And almost 700? You people are calling me names for not responding to yours! I sorry. I so sorry.
If it’s any consolation, I’ll let you pick something up for my birthday for me off my Amazon.com wish list! What? Oh, right. That was my bad, not yours. Okay, I’ll let you pick something up for my birthday off my Amazon.com wish list for yourself! You can then let me borrow it…until you forget I have it.
Until the next–as honorable adopted little brother says—brog post, cheers!
Kage
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Classic Blog Posts are published every Saturday–mostly, unless I forget like I did last week–while new blog posts are (hopefully) scheduled every Monday and Thursday.
Kage Alan lives in a suburb of Detroit, MI with his partner, Pookie, and their fish, all of who are affectionately named and answer to the word “fish.” Going back to the whole Bowie thing for a moment…that song of his, China Girl? Tell me he’s not he didn’t go through an entire Rice Queen stage. Or, would that be Rice King? No, he was bi, so I guess he just liked rice. Kage is the author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to My Sexual Orientation, Andy Stevenson Vs. the Lord of the Loins and Gaylias: Operation Thunderspell.