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Topaz: Today’s podcast from the WGBT studios features our latest addition to the blog family, Mr. Slinger..

Mr. Slinger: Wow!

Topaz: Good…now the introductions are dispensed with why don’ t you tell us a little bit about your latest blog idea..

Mr. Slinger: Wow! Happy to…where should I begin? Despite my sartorial evidence to the contrary, I am not used to being the centre of attention. At least with adults!

Topaz: Not. A. Bother! Why don’t you tell us how the idea for the blog—Mr. Slinger’s BlogBook of Days-- came to you?

Mr. Slinger: Wow…good question. Actually, the idea was pitched by three of my students who were working creatively one afternoon in the Light Bulb Lab at the back of my classroom….

Topaz: Wow! Students!

Mr. Slinger: Yes indeedy! I read their proposal several times and when I thought long and hard about it, it made a certain amount of ….I almost said ‘sense’!!

Topaz: I think I know what you mean…please continue..

Mr. Slinger: Well…or Wow…what ever comes first…I have always had a secret wish to be a blogger…I was hoping I might bump into a Genie on a beach somewhere and he/she would grant my wish. No such luck! And Robert Chambers’ nineteenth century Book of Days has always been one of my favourites…you could say it’s a permanent visitor to my bedroom nightstand..

Topaz: Wow! A blog union, forged on a nightstand….just wow! Perfect..

Mr. Slinger: ..now Chambers was writing more than one hundred years or so ago, so his personal noosphere was very different back then,,

Topaz: ‘Noosphere?’ Wow! You have done your blog homework!

Mr. Slinger: …so the blog I am proposing needs to be very different than that of Chambers, and be more of a mirror of our fragmented, random mass ‘of competing fictions’…and that’s the exciting part…it’s a leap into the darkness and light, but without snacks!

Topaz: Wow! Nicely articulated. A mundane question would be to ask which of Chambers’ topics might find their way on to your blog…but a better question is when can we expect a blog from Mr. Slinger?

Mr. Slinger: Wow! Soon, very soon. That’s all I can say, other than Wow!