David and The Lingering Sadness...

Sunday, October 08, 2006

A note from the BOSS

I feel a little clarification about the intent of this blog may be required.

The concept had been gestating in our collective womb for at least a year. We wanted to create a space on the web for like minded people to express themselves freely. We did this because certain other bloggers wouldn't allow us to do so.

We wanted the most innovative and brilliantly original minds out there to enhance our blogs credibility. So, we advertised. It was a simple advert, it asked people to submit a 5000 word piece on a subject of their choosing. The response was staggering, and it took us many months to trawl through a lot of hard work, some good, some bad and a lot just damn awful, before deciding on our cast.

The winners came up with original pieces, such as "Relationship Rage: Does the fact that I want to bodyslam the woman I love make me a schizophrenic?" This was a beautifully emotive piece of work by a great writer you all know as El Rey Chancho. And, "I'm Backing Myself: How to make everything you do a competition." This surprisingly, was from the affable Simon. The D man's piece was called, "A Lingering Sadness: Does crying in public bring into question my sexuality?" Needless to say, this touched even the coldest hearts and inspired the title of the blog. As you have probably noticed, we have many more writers on our books. We feel each person brings something unique to the table. We are also always on the look out for new talent and will add to a roster if a suitable candidate should arise.

Before last weekend, non of our contributors had ever met. We felt this was essential for quality varied output. It remains to be seen whether the fun and games last week will dilute the purity of this site.

From the outset, we gave each of our authors a simple mission statement. "Go fly, be free." Basically, we want them to use their exceptional talents to create a blog unlike anything ever seen. So far, I think their efforts have been a resounding success.

Bar Bar Butt

P.s. Those of you calling for certain people to be banned from commenting please grow up. Sites like www.Staypuff.net may engage in such negative, immature behaviour, but that is not and never will be our policy. COMMENT IS FREE!

2 Comments:

  • At 11:13 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Will you be publishing those essays? They sound fascinating.

     
  • At 12:00 AM, Blogger Bar Bar Butt said…

    I'm sure, in time, extracts will be published.

     

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