By Tony Attwood
This isn’t part of the normal run of articles for this site but instead is just a note about a smile that came to my face this morning.
As you might imagine, running this site, I do get quite a few people emailing me, selling all types of goods and services which have no relevance either to myself or to the site. My email address is out there – because I do want readers to be able to write to me if they have thoughts on the site, and perhaps are interested in writing an article, or want to let me know what they like and don’t like. We’ve been going for 16 years and I still enjoy it.
Anyway, these adverts come to my in-box, I recognise them pretty quickly (since they are by and large written in a very similar style) and I hit delete. It’s a bit frustrating when there are lots of them, but it it just part of running a site like this – which overall I do enjoy doing.
But today I really did have a laugh and I thought I’d pass it on, while also saying “Happy Christmas” in advance.
The email’s headline was “Discover High-Quality Gloves, Caps, and Scarves from a Trusted Supplier” and I took it to be just another company that had scooped up a million email addresses and emailed all of them in the hope of picking up one more outlet.
Yet as my finger headed for “delete” I noticed something else.
The subject line of the email read….
A Dylan cover a day 73: that brand new leopard skin pill box hat
Seemingly the writer had found my article written some two and a half years ago, and some bit of software (or maybe even a person, but I suspect it was software) had taken that to mean that I trade in leopard skin products. Or hats. (Which I don’t).
OK, it’s not THAT funny, but on a morning when the clouds cover the sky, it’s not much above freezing outside, and I’ve got to go shopping, as well as fill in some complex forms to make sure I keep getting the money that comes in from books I wrote in the dim and distant past, it gave me a smile.
And I thought I’d share that with you.
And of course, in case you live in a part of the world that celebrates Christmas, and in case I don’t get around to doing it in the coming nine days, I hope you have a happy Christmas, and enjoy Untold Dylan.
Indeed if you feel that you have something to say on Dylan which is not said elsewhere, and would like to write an article for Untold Dylan, please do drop me an email. It’s Tony@schools.co.uk I’m in England, but our writers are spread out all across the world, so where you are is not an issue. As long as it offers a new insight into Bob and his work, I’ll be pleased to have a look.
But no, I’m not in the market for leopard skin pill-box hats.
Tony Attwood