the slideshow at the MySpace page

I just added a slideshow to the poet's band's MySpace page, featuring the covers of all their CDs and the covers of his most worthy books. Sorry, the leopard's disaccommodation is old news, her covers are no longer in the official archives.

Here's the link for William F. DeVault and the Gods of Love. Special thanks to Slide for the free slideshow.

Imagine how different this show would look if the Leopard had not gotten herself exiled, if the original, smoking hot cover of "The Compleat Panther Cycles" had been used and if the model he wanted originally had made the cover of "Ronin in the Temple of Aphrodite". The mind boggles.

I wonder who the poor woman is going to be to bear the brunt of his repressed sexuality? I read his private writings...he grows more feral by the hour. The boy can only exorcise so many demons through his writing.

We should have a contest.

On an unrelated (but not totally) note...he has been talking about opening up the 'City to artists, models and photographers, allowing them to, free of charge, submit to be featured as the graphic representation of his works, one per poem page...this means dozens, even hundreds, of pictures would be needed. I want to see the photo that gets "leper's blood".

The Faroe Islands, according to the CIA

New international visitors, I see, in the City of Legends (I wonder whatever happened to that guy in Florida who was looking to acquire the domain from me? Never heard from him again. Must not have been very important.)

Countries that have checked in, passed through and stayed to read, in the last twenty four hours, include (aside from the good old USA):

Canada
New Zealand
Republic Of Korea
Sweden
Islamic Republic Of Iran
United Kingdom
China
Czech Republic
Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands? Yeah, I hadn't heard of them, either...so I did my research in the CIA "World Factbook". You check the entry out (and then the whole document) via this link. It's a great resource for information, lots and lots of information, on countries around the world. Plus, I've always wanted to say "CIA" and "Islamic Republic of Iran" in the same blog entry.

The Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark. That's fine, no problem. I knew this girl, back in college who was from Denmark, she had this...forget it...this is a PG rated blog.

They're an archipelago of islands, 17 inhabited, one uninhabited, with a surface about 8 times the size of Washington DC and about 47,000 inhabitants (twice the numbers of Morgantown, West Virginia). Only 2% of their land is suitable for farming. Their main resources seem to be fishing, whaling and possible oil and gas (uh oh, guess we have to invade them now).

Of course, once global warming is through with them, they'll be couple of rocky reefs in the way of ship traffic.

So what is someone from the Faroe Islands doing hanging around the City of Legends? Beats me. Maybe they just needed a Valentine Day poem. I'm more worried about the visitors from Iran. And Korea. A few days ago there were some Iraqi hits. Is the 'City about be adopted into the "Axis of Evil" (one of the most memorably stupid lines in the brief history of an historically stupid administration)?

Time will tell. I'm going to hide my weapons of mass destruction where I always have. In my pants.

Later, kids.

not a great day

Some days are rougher than others. The hardbound copy of '101 Great Love Poems' that I put on eBay did not sell. Nothing to be done but sell it via another means.

A couple of friends I usually correspond with dropped out of sight. Be patient.

The weather sucks. Such is life.

An internal client is upset with me because they think I've been bad-mouthing them. Allow them their outrage, defending oneself in these instances just makes matters worse.

Some extra work I had planned for the weekend has been pulled...after I cancelled my trip to see my boys, in part due to the weather, in part due to the work schedule.

Not one of my favourite days of all time. Some good things happened, as well, and perhaps when I have the vantage point of time and distance I will actually consider this one of the most wonderful days of my life.

We shall see. I am the eternal optimist.

43 minutes left on eBay

I must've missed something. People pay $25.00 for a copy of "101 Great Love Poems", particularly around this time of the year...but when I put an autographed copy of it on eBay, with an opening bid of one-half that, there's no bids.

Well, about 43 minutes from now, I get to reclaim it and sell it at face value. So, that's fine. Just revealing that I don't know jack about how to market. Anything.