David Thayer

Dateline the battle cruiser EMMA BOVARY: perturbed by Oliver Castinstone’s diabolical plan to convert this blog to a tabloid, the mighty EMMA BOVARY has trained her guns on the Druidical & Literary’s posh executive offices located in the bustling heart of Wellington Leg’s Financial District. A delegation from Hizzoner’s Office of Foreign Affairs is rowing across Gastropod Alley with our imbedded reporter The Earl of Watership Down, a man who needs no introduction. You may recall his bold iniative last year when he threw a turnip at a Roman sentry staving off certain defeat in the “clank heard round the world.”

This time under a flag of convenience ( sort of a 7-11 motif with what appears to be a map of New Hampshire in the background) the earl is prepared to parley with the interlopers. The problem, of course, is a running tide that is carrying his craft away from the EMMA BOVARY, indeed, the strong current is more than dogsbody UU Depew can cope with. It appears that the earl has vanished over the horizon.

No, wait I see something, a dark speck, the distinctive microwave antenna taking shape as the fog, something I should have mentioned earlier, lifts and all eyes turn to the unforgiving sea. Wellington Leg waits with bated breath…

Tune in next week for the continuation of FLAG OF CONVENIENCE. Is the earl lost at sea? Is Wellington Leg at the mercy of the Bourbon Pretender? Will this blog become a tabloid?  You’ll thrill as the answers to these and other somewhat unrelated questions are revealed in LOST WELLINGTON LEG, a gripping melodrama, sponsored by The Earl’s Own Green Tea Concoction. Drink it and be wonderful.

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