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[Uncle Cosmo]

Well, folks, the online publication alluded to in my report on reading in London has occurred.  As it turns out I am one of 8 "featured poets", not 2, and they printed 5 poems, not 8, all the way at the bottom of a very long page...but considering the alternative, who's complaining?  

[link=http://www.poetsletter.com/TPLFeaturedPoetsMarch2006.htm]Try this link[/link] (I think I screwed up the syntax the first time) & scroll way, way down in the RH column, or search "Fanzone" on the page a few times till you hit my ugly (& unaccountably widened) mug...

FWIW I will be reading these exemplars of deathly verse at the Manor of Rockfield next Tuesday (7 March)...among many, many others...

[shadowr]

Link did not work when I gave it a try.

[Uncle Cosmo]

<wipes 6-egg raw omelette off face>  Woops.  Yeah, I just went back there & nothing seems to be clicking.  Maybe they're doing maintenance or fixing typos or something.  Watch this space & I'll let you know...

[Uncle Cosmo]

I think I screwed up the link syntax last time--try the one in the edited post.  As they say in the orange juice biz, mea maxima pulpa.

[Joseph Young]

they are both working now (link and website). congrats, Joe! I especially liked the German pigeons and the Italian horse racing.

[shadowr]

UNCLE COSMO will be reading in the States on Tuesday. March 7 at Rockfield Manor in Bel Air at 1 P.M. come on out and hear him read!

Joe--I, too, am an old HTD fan having done an article on the comic for the Sun some years back. I met Steve Gerber and had a nice chat with him. "Trapped in a World He Never Made..."

[Uncle Cosmo]

Glad to know they's more'nn one of us PIBbers sufiiciently twisted to depreciate that canard .  I foist stumbled upon some choice editions of ol' Haired (for y'all uninitiated, that pronunciation's straight from Dandy Don Meredith' of Monday Night Football infamy) inn the vendors' room of Balticon (the local SF convention) going on...well, too many years back to admit.  Curious, I flipped open one cover...& in the introductory panel found Our Hero in a sports jacket & tie & hat, waddling down a city sidewalk with a stogie between two wingfingers & a disgusted look on his beak, saying--

I came back to Cleveland to nurse an old memory, and discovered the patient had died.

--& that was all I needed to become an instantiferous fan.  Still have a few back issues somewhere...which are all as excellent as the eponymous movie was atrocious...I still cringe at the thought that I paid good money (not just for myself but for a goylfren as well, whose opinion of my mental acuity probably dropped about 70 IQ points in the process) to have that abombanation inflicted upon me...

[Uncle Cosmo]

[quote1141364970=Joseph Young]
they are both working now (link and website). congrats, Joe! I especially liked the German pigeons and the Italian horse racing.
[/quote1141364970]Thanky kindly, JY.  I am myself rather pleased with my ornithological travel guide, though my favorite section is France, inspired by the an afternoon on a bench in the Parc Rene Gallieni watching the foul fowl tussle over the scraps of a sandwich & order of pommes frites I tossed them; I almost (almost, mind you) felt sorry for the big dumb gray birds... The Siena poem recalls some good moments, both there and with the dedicatee... I'll be reading both on Tuesday in Bel Air--among many, many others...