A storm is brewing

Indeed it is...in fact, if you look out my window (which, of course, you can't) then you would see that it's actually here already. In more ways than one, of course. As the literal stormy wind and rain blasta all around my house this evening, the metaphorical storm about Lestat's untimely sacking and the bizarre behaviour of Waterstone's in Edinburgh is whipping up unto a bit of a frenzy.

Not only have the Times online picked up on the story but a whole host of others - see the link for a list of some... http://cyber-junky.co.uk/joe/ - but Lestat will be in the Guardian and The Scotsman newspapers tomorrow. Apparently he was being photographed outside his former workplace on Princes Street this afternoon, much to the amusement of former colleagues. I'm delighted that the overwhelming majority of people who have responded to this incident have been supportive of Lestat. I simply fail to see how you could be anything else.

Foolish to call you workplace Bastardstone's? Or is this satire at work? For example recall, if you will, the many and varied comedians on the BBC who have taken, and continue to take, the total mickey out of the corporation on screen by uttering bawdy insults in the name of humour. Are they fired for this? Of course not. It's a pity Waterstone's didn't assume the moral highground, lust like Auntie and view the Woolamaloo rantings as a bit of harmless fun. After all, I certainly didn't see anythign in the blog before that would've made me not shop at Waterstone's...until now. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

And so, as the winds grow ever stronger around Scotland this evening, I can but imagine the storm that is engulfing the alleged "Evil Boss" (surely alleged no more? - Ed.) and his colleagues who must be surely wondering what's going on?

Have they simply thought that Lestat doesn't have any friends and acquaintances who know him for his work and for his humour and that he would simply walk quietly away into the night?? Oh dear, I think they actually did....

Goodnight, boys and girls.