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September 16, 2008
Too long in the saddle
Like a cowboy walking akimbo, too long in the saddle - I guess I've been too long in dem pesky radio studios for my own good; talking all that goddam nonsense about that no-good, two-timin' sonofabitch new book of mine on the enneagram.
I've so far spoken with London, Leeds, Sheffield, Ulster and radio Five Live. Still to come - Southern Counties, Manchester, Derby and yes, Radio Europe! (Sorry to everyone in Norfolk. It's not personal - I just haven't been invited.)
Talk about anything for too long and it begins to sound like nonsense - and certainly some callers have agreed. Ulster was going really well until I mentioned 'the oneness of all things'. Lead balloon time.
And the Christian station, Premier radio was going well - until the calls started. Then I became 'satanic', a 'false prophet', a peddlar of heresy and distraction - oh, and someone who one caller was 'warned against in her prayers that morning'. So that was good.
Mind you, it had already kicked off on the online Daily Mail comments board, after being serialized there. Someone from Canada quickly had me down as 'just another charlatan on his Caribbean island making shit loads of cash from the gullible'. He clearly hasn't visited me lately...
There were some nice things said too; and the book did actually stay for a week in the Amazon Top 100. But who wants to know that? Apart from me, of course...
Posted by Mr Bojangles at September 16, 2008 01:49 PM