Never Meet Your Heroes
They're bound to disappoint - like the time we booked Wayne Hussey for the B3ta Radio Show. Five minutes before we're due to record, Wayne
phones, lost on the M25 with his Brazilian wife screaming in the background. Not so much the King of Goth, as a hen-pecked flake.
( , Thu 25 May 2006, 14:17)
They're bound to disappoint - like the time we booked Wayne Hussey for the B3ta Radio Show. Five minutes before we're due to record, Wayne
phones, lost on the M25 with his Brazilian wife screaming in the background. Not so much the King of Goth, as a hen-pecked flake.
( , Thu 25 May 2006, 14:17)
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Mine happened yesterday...
at the moment i work in a certain bookshop, and have been there for about a week when i notice we are having an event, and one of my favourite authors is coming for a signing!! so for the next few days im dancing around the store wooing and yaying and the such until he comes, i wait for an hour and a half while all the 9-12 year olds (they're well written books OK?!) line up, spend about 10 minutes chatting and laughing and having photos taken with him, and i get there, mention how i have much i have loved the first 11 books, but havent read the twelth yet and im looking forward ot it muchly, and he sits there, mid signature, looks up at me and and in a calm, uncaring voice says "It was all a dream" completely fucking ruining the last book and pissing me off no end!!
no apologies for length, but i'll you can go on top
( , Wed 31 May 2006, 10:03, Reply)
at the moment i work in a certain bookshop, and have been there for about a week when i notice we are having an event, and one of my favourite authors is coming for a signing!! so for the next few days im dancing around the store wooing and yaying and the such until he comes, i wait for an hour and a half while all the 9-12 year olds (they're well written books OK?!) line up, spend about 10 minutes chatting and laughing and having photos taken with him, and i get there, mention how i have much i have loved the first 11 books, but havent read the twelth yet and im looking forward ot it muchly, and he sits there, mid signature, looks up at me and and in a calm, uncaring voice says "It was all a dream" completely fucking ruining the last book and pissing me off no end!!
no apologies for length, but i'll you can go on top
( , Wed 31 May 2006, 10:03, Reply)
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