Whooee! Thankee kindly, Billfeller fer puttin' up that there link. I jest spent sum time on the writin' wiki an' I ain't sure but I think mebbe I'm doin' everythin' wrong. You bein' a bigtime mainstreet media feller who probbly went t' j-school (there I go usin' jargon), I reckon mebbe you can steer me right. I ain't lookin' fer a personal trainer but if I was, you'd be top o' my list (there I go flatterin').

Anyways, t' make a short story long (here I go gettin' t' the point) the first part o' the wiki on writin' sez a good booger oughta get right down t' brass tacks an' shouldn't oughta make the boog readers wonder what in the Jeezuz yer blatherin' on about. That's the part I figger I'm not doin' so well.

The second part is called "Get comfortable" an' that's the part where I reckon I'm doin' better'n most. I ain't got me an Aeron chair but my keester's planted in a purty good swiveller from outta the Staples store. (Dammit, I'm digressin'.) The wikiwoos is sayin' jest write it up like you talk an' I don't figger anybuddy's doin' that better'n ol' JimBobby an' if that's the way t' make yer mark an' become a bigtime A-list booger, well then I'm headed fer the top o' the heap.

I've had sum o' my thousands an' thousands o' JimBobby Sez boog readers pissin' an' moanin' 'bout it bein' a tuff ol' job t' read my way o' writin'. Mostly, that happens in the commentin' departments o' sum other boogs. Sum o' them other commentin' boogers is downright snippety; 'specially at that long-necked Andy Coyne's boog an' over at that goose-steppin' Shotgun boog.

So here's my big plan, BillyBoy. I can see sum lazy loafers is too busy or snooty-tooty t' bother with my possterfee-laden prose. I been thinkin' on puttin' up'n audio sound record where I read it out loud so's the lazy asses an' the pore damn illiterates don't hafta strain their puny brains or eyeballs.

I been doin' sum studyin' on this here podcastin' bizness an' I reckon I got all the ingredients 'ceptin' a website host where I can park them bigass mp3 yammerin' files.

Howdja like that idee? Sound like it might be the ticket t' booger stardom an' untold wealth?

Yores trooly,
JimBobby

Hi JimBobby:

Actually, I got no journalism book-learnin'. I took forestry in university.

I figure the way up in any type of story-telling business is to have a unique "voice" , to be interesting -- and to be talked about. That may or may not be helped by being comprehensible in the traditional sense. :)

The JimBobby podcast, eh? The mind reels. But if you do it, I hope you get rich. :)

Cheers
Bill D.

Whooee! Thankee, Billfeller. I reckon there's a fine line between unique an' incomprehensible. I'm still a new booger an' mebbe I'll hafta leave loose o' some o' my possterfee's an' dialectics. Thankee fer the encouraging word on the podcast. I'm gonna give it a try sumtime soon. I may jest get my minnyvan yet.

The way you write up yer stories so smarty-like, I figgered fer sure you was a schooled feller in the journalism department at Ryerson or U of Trawna.

I reckon there's sum sorta irony 'bout the forestry thing an' you publishin' yer writin' online with no pulpwood trees involved but I ain't sure what the ironic part is. It's in there sumwheres.

BTW, I give yer boog a coupla links in my little boog post today.

Yores trooly,
JimBobby

Hey JimBobby:

I taught a course in research once upon atime at Rye High's j-school, and the U of T has let me walk on its campus without siccing either cops or dogs on me, but that's as far as that goes. :)

I noticed the traffic coming over from your little patch. Thanks!

Cheers
Bill D.