This blog entry has been removed, revised and included in the romping sci-fi epic TESTAMENT: FUNNY BADGERS by Indigo Roth, Red Angel Publishing, 2013.
Its reference in the book is iDIFFICULT 3:1-25
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You've really captured the warm anticipation of meeting up with an old friend here. :) Well done.
ReplyDeleteHey Dawn! Thank you. Tho normally I feel like throwing bricks at him, especially when there's so many spares of him running about. Indigo x
DeleteI think 'Difficult must have been messing around with the Cephnet to be duplicating like that. Hope the soup was good.
ReplyDeleteHey Paula! Aah, but when this was written, CephNet was but a gleam in its creator's eye. Still, the effects could be rippling backwards? Stranger things have happened. Roth x
Deletemmm... spicy vegetable soup...
ReplyDeleteyou have great friends. =)
Hey Eolist! I do, and you're in the Inner Circle, Shorty; we don't share the EolistBlend with just anybody. And yes, the soup was good! Roth x
DeleteLost Soup Mine, eh? Any cream of broccoli there, do you think?
ReplyDeleteI do like the quirky turns your stories take!
Hey Jen! Not as yet, but they're hoping to open a new seam soon, so keep your fingers crossed. And thank you, tho as I've said before, I just write it all down. Indigo x
DeleteJust so I'll know, do you call him 'Difficult for short?
ReplyDeleteHey Murr! I'm a lazy cuss, and lose syllables wherever possible. So yes, I started calling him 'Difficult during those happy times at St. Mungo's. But since THE CEPHALOPOCALYSPE, he is of course now called Max. I'm still not over that. Roth x
DeleteErnest Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea is probably one of my favorite books, ever.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm glad iDifficult finally showed up, and with 3 more people to boot!
Hey Mia! It's a favourite of mine, tho I couldn't say why. Perhaps it's the simplicity of the text? I have a lovely unabridged audio version of it read by Donald Sutherland, too. And yes, he'll get there eventually. Indigo x
DeleteSo iDiffcult is one of those friends that repeats on you?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, for some reason The Old Man and the Sea bored me to tears. And it's one of his shortest, go figure. I like his other stuff. But maybe it didn't appeal to me in the same way that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance didn't appeal to me. Too contemplative? Need to be in the mood for it? I don't know.
Hey Margaret! He does indeed, tho I couldn't eat a whole one. As for the Hemingway, who knows? I struggle with lots of books; I've been trying to read Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN after whizzing through the wonderful THE GRAPES OF WRATH and all his short books. Just hard work, no idea why. But yeah, maybe we need to be in the mood? Indigo x
DeleteHe's amazing. But so are you! What a patient man! Of course, I would wait forever for good curry. But I might hesitate to take a chicken to a curry shop. But that's just me.
ReplyDeleteHey Linda! Oh, I'm not so patient. We never got to the curry house, the soup was that good. But yes, if he didn't exist, I'd have to invent him. Much like Yavin the badger. Glad you enjoyed this one. Indigo x
DeleteAll good things come in threes. And sometimes in chicken costumes. Now, tell me more about this wooden leg, I am very curious.
ReplyDeleteHey Ziva! It's from an antique mannequin of Al Jolson. Indigo
DeleteCrikey, that raises more questions than it answers :)
DeleteMy work here is done x
DeleteI can't help but wonder: Was it chicken soup that iDifficult brought you?
ReplyDeleteHey Mike! Nope, but I wouldn't have minded; vegetable soup brings out the worst in him. And when three of him are in one place? Wowsers. Open. A. Window. Roth
DeleteAll that build up for a bus joke? 4/10 must try harder ;-)
ReplyDeleteBobby! A pleasure to see you, fella! Well, sorta. 4/10? For a poor punchline? Hey, I'll have you know I rarely indulge in them; you should be grateful that I'm pandering to the outdated comedic stereotypes, and that my hand was forced by a mandate from the masses. Help, help, I'm being repressed, etc. Roth
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