Um, on the topic of the jo-tel being down for about a week … sorry. It wasn't our fault. It was the (probable) fault of our mysterious service provider Midphase, who, having sat on hold with them for a total of .8 man hours, I can attest has THE worst on-hold music in the world … unless you like music from the bowls of hell I guess. But then the dues ex machina intervened. The dude who created "jo-tel.com", which supplanted the previous "jo-tel.editme.com", which suffered an unfortunate demise at the hands of comments-section spammers and ineffectual filtering software (sorry, editme, but it sucked). The one who I will refer to by his super-secretly clandestine codename: "Jaskot". ….. Codename: Jaskot …. kind of sounds like a bad Tom Clancy videogame. [FN1]
But we are back now, and just when I was about to give in and work on more legitimate writing, you know … like … my smash-hit novella Red Hill Mining Town. But, come on, how can I not write about beer bonging wine.
FN1: Dear Tom Clancy,
Your ideas make for better video games than they do novels.
Sincerely, Shark.
-Shark
6 responses so far ↓
Shark // Sep 18, 2007 at 9:29 pm
You’re wrong about one thing: Tom Clancy has written a bunch of great novels.
M. Bock // Sep 19, 2007 at 12:11 am
I was about to take the Jo-Tel off my blog reading list.
Rainbow Six Vegas=the Shit. Red Storm Rising=the Shit. Which is better? No man can say. Except me. Red Storm Rising is superior.
Hip E. // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:44 am
The only one I didn’t like was The Sum of All Fears, but I stopped reading them around the time Jack Ryan became president. I look forward to reading the rest someday, interspersed with some Harry Potter action. Maybe while recovering from a surgery or something.
M. Bock // Sep 19, 2007 at 9:22 am
I read about halfway through the book immediately following Cardinal of the Kremlin (was that the Sum of all Fears?), and didn’t continue. But, while it lasted, great stuff. Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Clear and Present Danger … all great reads.
I think I did check out the Jack Clark stand-alone, now that I think about it.
Load // Sep 19, 2007 at 10:37 am
I was calling a vendor a few months ago and before the hold music started it gave you a selection to choose from e.g. rock, R&B, etc .
Hip E. // Sep 19, 2007 at 12:24 pm
That’s tight. Walloch’s cell phone plays classical music WHILE IT’S RINGING BEFORE HE PICKS IT UP.
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