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The Western Front

Rather than field sixty emails a day about the fate and status of ill repute, I might as well lay things out here. While there have been no new posts since approximately 1983, the future of the project is very much established and fixed and all such similar things. What we are experiencing at the moment is the usual summer hiatus, which is slated to last until the full summers’ quota of proper decent weather has been fulfilled. This was a negotiated stipulation in Mr Fournier’s contract from the beginning of the outset, and one we are determined to respect. In any event we can’t particularly complain, as Eli has much of a similar outage lined up for the coming winter evenings, during which time he is in the court-mandated habit of distributing hot port to homeless Asian sailors (or in their absence, redistributing the bottles into more personal avenues).

Despite all this there is between little and no reason for anyone to fret about a lack of reading material, as manifold other projects are underway. While many of these are behind closed doors at the minute and will probably remain so for the forseeable, cash settlements notwithstanding, the mere fact of their existence is expected to be of great comfort to the average reader. Should it turn out that the marketing gurus have miscalculated on this point, feel free to pick the nearest convenient billboards and assume they are part of a vast and thoroughly entertaining viral marketing campaign, the oblique and succulent mysteries of which will doubtless occupy you for weeks on end.

In the more immediate meantime, be sure to stay tuned for news of my upcoming sitcom project. It’s a bold and genre-bending opus that will fry your tiny little minds with its sheer unfettered twelve-gauge 40-proof five-alarm wit and sparkle; think of it as Saved by the Bell meets Grey’s Anatomy meets Shaft in Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, I call it Hippo Campus.

I would very much like you to read this.

It’s been quite a while since I pimped this properly and I have more readers dropping in these days, so I might as well be blatant…

Ill Repute is an online fiction project by myself and David Maybury concerning the adventures of estimable men-about-town Eli Mordino and George Fournier. We update more or less once a week (for a given value of “more or less”) and we’re currently in the middle of our first story arc (story arcs: just like you see on the television). Any more description I try to give will descend into noncey apron-wringing so I shall link you to the first post and leave you it.

Sophisticated pantslessness, bonus readables

I happened across this on Wikipedia:

Going commando, the act of not wearing undergarments in popular culture

That’s pretty specific. What if you don’t wear underwear at, say, an opera? Is there a different name for that? I suggest something along the lines of “going commandeau”.

Via reddit: Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel, a very good flash piece about fictional science.

Please finally note that, after some arse-aroundery, we have decided that from now on Ill Repute will update twice weekly: Eli’s post on Monday, George’s on Thursday. Do have a read.

Edit: Make that George on Monday, Eli on Thursday. Arses are still mildly rotating.

New fiction: Ill Repute

… in which George Fournier and Eli Mordino have diverse adventures.