The New Podcast and a Promise to Deliver
The new podcast of "From Out of the City" is now up and available for your listening pleasure.
And I mean pleasure, as this week's show features selections from the new CD THE NAKED READS.
Included in the show are my "naked" readings of
THE UNICORNS
PINK JADE (A SUMMONED FIRE)
THE FAERIE (STRANGE BUT BEAUTIFUL)
BEHIND THE FACADE
To give it a listen, swing by City of Legends and head to the "Radio" page...
while you're there...you may want to hit up the bookstore and get yourself a copy or ten of everything. If you order more than 100 copies of anything, I'll personally deliver it!
4 comments:
Dear Mr. DeVault,
In your blog dated Sunday, November 19th, 2006, entitled:
The New Podcast and a Promise to Deliver
You struck a bargain with your readers. You may be tired from all of the hard work you’ve been doing lately, so I’m asking you to clarify your promise to deliver.
I love music, I love to dance, I love to read.
You’ve added something new to my favorite things.
I love to listen to your work, unadorned.
Those were not the words of an ambivalent litigator.
In your post, you said: “while you're there...you may want to hit up the bookstore and get yourself a copy or ten of everything. If you order more than 100 copies of anything, I'll personally deliver it!”
I am not a litigator, but I do pay attention and I do hear opportunity knocking, however faintly. I would like to order as many copies of the Naked Reads as possible, one hundred is a good starting point. I’d like to place a copy in every place I might visit in the future so that I could listen again and again. I’d like to give a copy to every person I meet who exhibits heart and soul.
You did not mention any specific method of payment, or when the payment would be due. You simply said that if someone ordered 100 copies of anything, you’d personally deliver. I would enjoy that, and I would also like them autographed. Here’s my deal: I would like to barter cookies for your voice. You name the ingredients, and how you’d like them delivered, and I’ll bake them for you. You can do the math and let me know how many hundreds of dozens I should bake.
I’ll understand if you retract your offer to deliver, and clarify your payment method. I’ll be putting in an order soon, regardless of your terms.
My gratitude to you, for another chance to hear your voice,
Jess Aabelle Baker
Your post made me smile.
But, I think it is not actionable for me to clarify that, indeed, whn I spoke of a person ordering at least 100 of my books or CDs I am referring to via the means presented (through the City of Legends bookstore at www.cityoflegends.com/citystore.html)
And I meant the offer, completely.
Fine.
Shoot.
I'll order tradtionally then.
I'd still send you cookies though.
Loved the podcast.
jess
-It was my intention to make you smile.
BTW-Nice linkage to
www.cityoflegends.com/citystore.html
(slow smile)
Mr. D.,
Nice palinode, by the way.
The Word of the Day for November 21 is:
palinode \PAL-uh-nohd\ noun
1 : an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem
*2 : a formal retraction
Example sentence:
Oscar Wilde penned this famous palinode: "Not that I agree with everything that I have said in this essay. There is much with which I entirely disagree."
Did you know?
Does singing someone's praises in a palinode pay off? It did in the case of Stesichorus, a Greek poet of the 6th century B.C. According to Plato, old Stesichorus was struck blind after writing a poem insulting Helen of Troy, but his sight was restored after he wrote an apologetic palinode. That poet was only too glad to apply the Greek word "palinÅidia" (a compound of "palin," meaning "back" or "again," and "aeidein," meaning "to sing"). So were 16th-century English poets, who borrowed and modified the Greek term to refer to odes of their own.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
I wonder if those greek poets played the guitar too.
(Big smile) And back to work.
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