Daggy’s latest blog entry is about Christmas presents, and, of course, himself and his phenomenal achievements. Call it a retrospective, if you wish.
For the 2009 holiday season, I decided to update my blog homepage and fill my fans and followers in on some of my gifts and achievements of the last twelve months . . .
It’s a missive from the cult leader to his members and groupies!
. . . 2009 still managed to be my best year in the “earning” department, where I doubt I will ever be able to rival 2007 in the quantity and material department.
No doubt he’s counting his inflated revenue figures of used magazines and comics from his Coney Island booth among his earnings. It’s clear that he made more in 2009 from selling other people’s material than he did in 2007 from selling his own stories. Note that 2007 saw the one and only issue of his failed attempt at publishing: The Literary Bone. Note also that Daggy, like Pacione, places a premium on quantity over, say, quality.
Some of these achievements . . . minor proofreading . . . resumes . . . making over 2000 friends and followers on Facebook, and just a lot revolving around . . . The Spirit of Christmas.
Is The Spirit of Christmas a new story title? It appears so. The rest of the entry is devoted to showing all the toys he’s going to give his son for Christmas.
As for the achievements, let’s just say that proofreading, writing other people’s resumes (instead of his own), and accepting over 2000 “friends” on Facebook is less than impressive.
I realized that, money-wise, it doesn’t pay to release a second short story collection. I can earn more individually.
Or by hawking used comics and magazines at Coney Island?
One of the items I searched the UK high and low for was The Cybermen Age of Steel 4-figure collection. Collect them all, open up the packages, and you can build a fifth figure. The Cyber Controller.
Wait. Did he actually attend that con in Brighton? More likely, he means that he scoured UK-based websites looking for these toys. His son may end up playing with these action figures dolls, but it’s pretty obvious that Lorenzo really bought them for himself. It’s akin to an aging playboy who buys his trophy wife a red sports car and lets her drive it once in a while.
Some of the other gifts, which are already wrapped, consist of model kits with glues and paints from my old man, though they say ages 8+ and 12+ on the packages. So I guess the little one will have to hold on to them until he’s old enough to understand them.
Assuming Lorenzo doesn’t sniff all the glue and paint fumes first . . .
. . . I also treated myself to a few early-season gifts. First, notice the non-fiction book above on Pompeii. You got it. It’s research time. Lawrence Dagstine will be coming your way sometime in 2010 with a story set in Pompeii.
Whatever happened to that story set in ancient Egypt that he was going to write? After all, he spent a whole afternoon visiting a museum exhibit to do his research for that story.
And if you look up above, I finally have a new computer desk. Nice to have shelving and a drawer, but still unsure of what to fill it up with yet. Now that the little one has gotten older, the bookcase units pretty much belong to him and his toys.
Pro tip: fill the shelves with all the Dr. Who and superhero dolls you bought, and buy the kid a toy chest.
Stay with me in 2010. We have many adventures to go on together, and much awaits. Won’t you join me? To all my fans and readers…
*barf*