Trophy, the new novel by CR’s fiction ed., is garnering some great reviews. Yet Michael, a modest sort of fellow, can’t bring himself to promote it. Ben Dudley, one of Michael’s students, recently took him to task for this on Facebook. The exchange went thus:
Ben: Are you aware that you’re not on YouTube? Who isn’t on YouTube?? How am I supposed to show this visiting poet that he has the exact same voice as you? Michael: start vlogging. About everything (American Idol results, big football matches, the foibles of life in these United States).
Michael: Ben, you’ve convinced me. I need a presence on youtube; I need a star’s presence. And since I’m old, dull, technologically inept, and unphotogenic (the kind way of saying it), I need YOU to be my youtube presence. I propose impersonation.
The following vlog (with Ben impersonating Michael) resulted:
