Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Has WS already reached "Michael Jackson" status?
As regular readers will be aware, the latest batch of sugary sweet glowing praise type comments has appeared on the WS site.
But with all comments being moderated, the timing is even more suspicious than usual.
Added on a Bank Holiday Monday when all Library's are definitely closed (for the benefit of my international readers, a Bank Holiday is a public holiday when most of jolly Old England shuts down), it would suggest that WS no longer relies on public internet access to maintain her blog.
Has her agent found her a place to live at last?
Has our heroine succumbed to peer pressure and spent her paypal windfall on a place to rest her weary head?
Naturally she'll keep her fans informed. Maybe a few months after the event though, as it would spoil a good story.
Who'd want to read the blog of a homeless woman who wasn't homeless?
Thatwould make her ....errr... nothing special really.
Shhhh.. I'd love to tell you more but I'm afraid I can't just yet.
The fairies that dance with the angels around my car in the moonlight told me not to.....
:)
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29 comments:
Excellent reading as usual.
Please keep up the good work.
B.
p.s. I hope I dont sound like one of her fans. *LOL*
SHE/HE/IT SEEMED TO REFRESH THE COMMENTS 3 TIMES ON BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY........ GREAT INTERNET ACCESS FROM THE LANEWAY...
Call and response...
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Here's a nice exerpt from a heartwarming interview that WS chose to give to Blogging Times. I was very moved by it, particularly these details:
"This is completely overwhelming, I’m sitting in internet cafe with goosebumps. It’s not as if I am an expert blogger or anything"
Yes, it's heartwarming to learn that homeless people today can afford to sit in internet cafes. Internet cafes must be jam-packed with homeless people, giving interviews, having goosebumps as they sip their lattes.
"Have you received any offers like book deals, blogging for networks, etc.
Had one (online mostly) publisher contact me just now, and one network, plus one other journalist."
Read the rest for yourselves here.
Love your style anonymous - keep up the good work.
Pity about the poor idiots who are unable to think up an id off their own bat (Arnold laneway - how original!!!)
I wasn't able to tell you all before...I had to wait, with bated breath, my heart skipping, dancing with the angels in the azure sky above my laneway...
...I've got a movie deal. The story of my life, my situation, my struggles...Julia Roberts is going to play me, and Hugh Grant is going to play an angel.
I'm afraid it's not true that all libraries are closed on bank holidays. Several of the London academic libraries are open on bank holidays at this time of year.
have just seen this ...
WanderingScribe makes Paypal refund ...
http://wanderingscribbles.blogspot.com/2006/05/wanderingscribe-makes-paypal-refund.html
Yes, it got one of it's sheep to pretend it gave him a refund.
Sad really.
I have been reading this blog for the past few weeks and I have to tell you it has changed my life!
I too live in my car and have been doing so for the past forty years. In all that time I have never once thought of writing up my story even though I am an incredibly talented scribe, to coin a phrase.
I read about the original witheringscrib here and the fact that she sleeps in a Rover. I sleep in a 1955 Morris Minor and finding out that she sleeps in a modern, trendy Rover with cushioned steering wheel, no doubt, got me to thinking I ought to get an agent to try and get a more modern sleeping car.
Well, lo and behold one night I was attacked by an extremely foul smelling tramp who, after beating me up insisted on daubing shit all over my windscreen. Yes, it was the famous Wobble to whom you are indelibly linked. It was love at first sight. After an exceedingly good session of brutal homosexual lovemaking, (my first time) he suggested I sell the old Morris and split the proceeds with him.
Well would you Adam and Eve it, the old banger was a first edition and we made three million pounds from some gullible Yank on e-bay.
I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
old scholar said...
I'm afraid it's not true that all libraries are closed on bank holidays. Several of the London academic libraries are open on bank holidays at this time of year.
Utter Tosh.
Please name the libraries that were open on Bank Holiday Monday to members of the public so that I can ring them and verify this.
If it's true then I shall confirm it here.
Don't be shy.
Let's have those names.
You wouldn't want folks thinking you are yet another WS toady posting more claptrap in her defence, would you. :)
OK, verify away. The LSE is one. There are several others which you can find if you put your mind to it.
Checked it out matey boy (How's that for service !) via http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/news/twentyfourhouropening.htm
and although it is open 24 hours, access is only for LSE students and staff.
Please bring a valid Library card - you cannot gain entry without it!
So which is she?
I thought she was homeless and not a student.
Perhaps she's a homeless student and never mentioned that bit.
Or perhaps she uses a different library.
One that does open 24 hours for any tom, dick or anya to wander into (although, knowing the kind of people that lurk around London late at night, I doubt if ANY would allow unauthorised people in).
And also, why do you feel the need to defend her (anonymously)?
It's a common trait on the WS blog that people will question some anomaly and her loyal fans rush to find a reason/excuse.
The Great One herself rarely answers.
About anything.
Except gushing praise, of course.
How very true.
I don't think you have read this entry of February 09 from WS. I think you'll find it INTERESTING...
"It wasn’t realistic (but then dreams tend not to be;-)) and I wasn’t thinking of writing my own story, about my own period of homelessness and life in the woods, or how it came about. At those times, when I fled reality with a sheaf of paper and pen and dreamt of one day writing a book, I thought more of finishing a novel and having that published (a fab novel by the way — literary fiction, beautifully written and constructed — even ·though not yet quite finished — a kind of supernatural love story set on a Scottish island — incase any blog-trawling literary agents just happen to be reading this;-)) "
What a whore!
The mist was rolling doon the laneway and oer the glen as wee Hamish McScribe made his way to the Library to complete his daily blog.
"Mebbe today I'll find the lassie o my dreams" he thought to himself, fidling with his sporran in anticipation.
His thoughts were interrupted as he drew level with the battered old rover parked in the woods, the home of Mad Hag, a homeless sassenach who had moved to the village of Dunworkin many years ago.
Although she was mostly harmless, she had a tendency to dance naked in the moonlight and sing to imaginary angels that danced around her car.
He peered through the grimy windows that were bereft of colour.
Inside, oblivious to her surroundings, Mad Hag scribbled furiously in an old exercise book she carried everywhere.
As his eye was caught by the sun glinting off the thin sliver of saliva that drooled from the side of her mouth, Hamish felt a pang of pity for this poor creature.
As she rocked back and forth, softly crooning to herself, Hamish could just make out the odd phrase.
"They loved me... they worshipped me... you'll see.. soon get that deal...Oh yes, I'll show 'em..."
He turned and stole quietly away down the laneway, shaking his head at the poor wretch.
"Och, the things ye see when ye havenae a gun" he thought to himself........
Wanderingscribe, if ever you read this, please accept my sincere thanks for sharing your thought and words with us. You have lit a small candle, given me back the flame of spirit that gives us our strenght, that allows us to truly see life in all it's beauty and grandeur. I know that was not your intention, but the fact that your helping me and others like me was incidental, in no way lessens the deed.
I truly hope you suceed, and I have an abundance of faith that you will
Thank you for all your kind words and thoughts.
My heart soars like a baby Eagle on Crack Cocaine when I read the heartwarming messages of support like the one above.
I shall continue to write my thoughts and feelings down just for all you little people in this great big scary world.
God Bless you and keep those paypal donations coming.
Hugs.
WS
I thought you'd enjoy that entry from 09 February, by WS. But there are more INTERESTING statements there :
"But once I was back out in the cold, in the car, preparing to settle down for the night, I thought about the Observer article I had read about DM, and his being a poster boy for some kind of media-created movement. And the more I thought, the more it seemed likely that this person, whose number one dream in life had probably not always been to be a writer, and who was also not technically homeless as such, might actually be getting a book deal out of this, the more angry I became."
M.
Quite right!...
M.
And more from the same post:
"Although, when the writer hinted at a book and the film possibly following, I must admit my fascination threatened to congeal into an ugly jealous anger. Not that I wanted that publicity and outcome for myself — well I didn’t expect it, not in reality"
Hmmm, so WS is not looking for a book deal or for publicity then?
"And the more I thought, the more it seemed likely that this person, whose number one dream in life had probably not always been to be a writer, and who was also not technically homeless as such, might actually be getting a book deal out of this, the more angry I became."
'Also not technically homeless', eh?
Come on, this is so obviously a stunt pulled to get some publicity in order to get something published.
Sadly, it seems that some yuppie bleeding heart liberals fell for her scam.
I wonder what exciting episodes will entrall her readers in the near future.
"Got up, look outside for a bit, wrote some of me book after doing background research at the Mills & Boon Library, went to bed".
I can hardly wait ......
Why was a comment deleted?
I read the original. I don't understand why it'd be deleted.
Don't tell me you're pulling a WS on me.
Well, my blog is completely impartial. I haven't deleted ANY fucking comments. No one's posted yet, but whatever. Come one, come all, I do say!
Perhaps you have nothing interesting to say.
:)
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