BOOK TUBE!

In which I launch a BOOK TUBE Channel where I read out my stories, starting with: THE BASHFUL COURTESAN

Okay, now this is weird. I decided a while ago that I want to read out my stories. I didn’t know how long to make then when I was reading here. I still don’t. I don’t talk much when I do my reading. There’s not a lot of personality.

Just read it and go!

And I did, for the most part. Now I’m not saying I’m finished reading here. I’m here until April 21st when THE DAWN PATROL finishes. I’ll be reading THE BASHFUL COURTESAN on my BOOK TUBE. (I’m calling it SCRIBBLER because I’m trying to tie the two of these things together. This is a work in progress. I’m the one trying to make the progress. I told you I’ve given myself a timeline. I’m 66 in three weeks.

I’m basing everything I do, on the idea that I’ll only have twenty years of quality life left in me. I guess that’s 19 now…or rather, in three weeks.

So with that in mind, the readings, I feel, will eventually have to go to the BOOK TUBE. I want my ‘Stack to become the main home page, and my Book Page to be an extension. There are two videos, one where I’m trying it out to see if I can make it work, and the other when I do my first “reading.”

I will be inviting celebrities to come in and read for me whenever they happen to be in Vancouver. I have a list. On that list this week is Tom Hiddleston. He plays LOKI, and he was Loki in the THOR movies. But I’ve seen him do those letter readings they have on line. He is quite the amazing reader, and I feel he would do well. (Well, better than me.)

Obviously, I don’t expect any celebrities to show up, but, well, there’re Six Degrees Of Separation, so somebody knows somebody, who knows somebody that knows Tom Hiddleston. I know, that’s only four, but really, how far do I have to go in order to find someone to pass the message? I remember I was on Twitter, following Ryan Reynolds. I figured: good little hometown boy, he’ll see my story and want to pass it on because I live in Vancouver. I can go viral. He won’t mind if I send him something EVERY DAY!

The restraining order isn’t too bad. I mean, he’s moved, but his mother still lives here, I guess, because they won’t lift it. Stalking not withstanding, it’s neither here nor there. To any future A-list celebrities, all I can pay you with is a good home-cooked meal. (My wife is quite an exceptional cook, as you’ll see when you see the video. I’ve gained a bit of weight.)

This is the spot where I was supposed to put the link to the video, but…I never lost it. I just have to go look for it again…

Nope. It ain’t gonna work. I think I can connect to it through my NOTES feed. Anyway, it’s a really cool video, and a really cool idea. The thing about it, is that I get to be a bona fide creator. I mean, when I consider that I’m making a video in the security of my own home, knowing that when I was 11 years old they landed on the Moon and had all sorts of huge computers, and this thing on my desk has more power than they had. So yeah, the idea that you can be creative and make a movie on a computer at home, is mind-boggling to anyone over 60.

I worked in a mill, remember. Computers when they first came out, were an unknown entity. It was something you had to learn, with DOS. It was life before Microsoft and Apple. You had to take courses. And then Apple came out with their system and suddenly everyone and his uncle had a computer.

This is what they mean when they say: Whatever you can dream, you can be, because it’s never too late to be what you might have been. I figure, if I shoot the shit for about 10-15 minutes, and then read an entire chapter for another 10-15 minutes, that’s the perfect size. People will either want to come for the stories, or to hear what I might have to say. This way, you get a little bit of everything.

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