8FOLD: Red Hart # 1

[Andrew Perron]

On 10/10/2014 8:55 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 10:35:46 PM UTC-4, Andrew Perron wrote:
>> Hey let's respond to stories from two months ago WHY NOT.
>
> I don't mind! As Ezra Pound said, it's the news that stays the news. :-)

That's just what I want in my newsreader. <3

>> That is a heck of an ASCII title. <3
>
>I wish it was my design; I've been using a free ASCII generator for most of
 > my logos these days. I've just seemed to have lost what little knack I used
 > to have. :-(

Awwww. I've been practicing, here and there.

>>> [A cosmic battle. SEDENION falls.]
>>
>> Man, I'm not sure whether or not I envy the director who interprets *that*
>> particular stage direction.
>
>I'm not so deluded as to think that anyone would want to actually stage
 > this thing on a stage

I WOULD (but have never done such a thing)

 > (audio play would be more doable, if not any more likely),

True.

 > but in keeping with the conceit of the series, I tried to keep things
 > stage-able, or free for interpretation as here, at least in the early
 > going. As the series ramps up towards its conclusion, things get quite a
 > bit bigger, and any hypothetical stage director is more likely to go out of
 > his hypothetical friggin' mind.

That's the fun part!

>>> VAN
>>> Yeah, that sounds totally reasonable and not at all insane. So I'm
>>> incredibly glad I took this job.
>>
>> I <3 you Van
>
>One of the challenges I set for myself was to make people care about a
 > character named Van Morrison.

It took me a bit to get that one. <3

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, van-van-van bam-bam-a-ram