… and some more miscellany.<\/p>\n
The confession<\/b><\/p>\n
The astute among you who’ve followed my links to Joel Simon’s blog, The Ultimate Answer to Kings<\/a>, have noticed, shall we say, a few similarities between Joel’s life and mine.<\/p>\n I think it’s time to reveal the secret.<\/p>\n No, I am not Joel Simon. I have more hair and I’d look just awful in that beard, not to mention that Jayne Cobb cunning hat<\/a>.<\/p>\n But I am the neighbor Joel refers to as W. or Uncle W. — and I suspect his attempt to turn me into a person of the male persuasion for literary purposes has fooled very few readers.<\/p>\n So there you have it. Yes, Joel is the hermit neighbor who lives in the next trailer down the ridge. It’s nice having a crotchety old one-legged hermit for a neighbor. They leave you alone, which is good. Except when you don’t want to be left alone. Which is also good.<\/p>\n Joel is very much like his fictional character Shadow, from stories like this one<\/a>. And he and Shadow are both more suited to being desert rats than I.<\/p>\n So that’s that. Joel, you can now quit your unconvincing attempts to hide my identity.<\/p>\n … and the miscellany for today<\/b><\/p>\n … and some more miscellany. The confession The astute among you who’ve followed my links to Joel Simon’s blog, The Ultimate Answer to Kings, have noticed, shall we say, a few similarities between Joel’s life and mine. I think it’s time to reveal the secret. No, I am not Joel Simon. I have more hair and I’d look just awful in that beard, not to mention that Jayne Cobb cunning hat. But I am the neighbor Joel refers to as W. or Uncle W. — and I suspect his attempt to turn me into a person of the male persuasion…<\/p>\n\n