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Bob Belvedere Hates Trees While Being The Most Beautiful Man On The Planet

Posted on | June 19, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

I am nearly reduced to a weeping outburst of Smalley-ism:


*sniff* Thank you *sniff*

In better news, the Kindle version is actually perking now. I made what was a not unreasonable, yet wrong, assertion when it jumped me from CreateSpace.com to Kindle Direct Publish: that it new I was the author. As I tried to submit the .pdf without a listed author, they kicked it back to me about five times before I contacted them via email to see if we could dance a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

I blame Dan Collins. (Whose book you should buy, BTW: I picked up two copies when it first came out.)

Update:

Category: Camp of the Saints, Dan Collins

Comments

16 Responses to “Bob Belvedere Hates Trees While Being The Most Beautiful Man On The Planet”

  1. lonely conservative
    June 19th, 2012 @ 6:55 pm

    I can’t find the Kindle version. Is there a link to it?

  2. Bob Belvedere
    June 19th, 2012 @ 7:04 pm

    I had not realized when I made the purchase that it would help kill a tree – now my day is really made special!

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  4. lonely conservative
    June 19th, 2012 @ 8:08 pm

    I don’t care about the trees. Books on my kindle just take up less room and I can read it in the dark.

  5. Quartermaster
    June 19th, 2012 @ 8:35 pm

     The glow gives you away when your mother comes in to check on you. Hiding under the covers doesn’t work either.

  6. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    June 19th, 2012 @ 8:59 pm

    Strange Tree

  7. K-Bob
    June 20th, 2012 @ 7:11 am

     I found a t-shirt that reminds me of your avatar, and the fact that you are a tree-killing, very bad man.

  8. Bob Belvedere
    June 20th, 2012 @ 8:21 am

    I’m sure I will eventually get something like the Kindle, just for convenience sake, but I plan on still buying a hard copy of whatever I purchase for it because I just love owning books.

  9. Bob Belvedere
    June 20th, 2012 @ 8:22 am

    Must be live oak .

  10. K-Bob
    June 20th, 2012 @ 10:30 am

    I like that answer.  There’s a Live Oak preserve run by the National Park Service called Naval Live Oaks near Pensacola Florida that is a very interesting place.

  11. Bob Belvedere
    June 20th, 2012 @ 10:37 am

    I believe it was from eastern Georgia that the live oak used [and still used] in the USS Constitution was harvested.

  12. K-Bob
    June 20th, 2012 @ 10:43 am

    Bet they all got chiggers something fierce working there.

  13. Bob Belvedere
    June 20th, 2012 @ 11:11 am

    A good number sent down to harvest the lumber died and slaves had to be called into to finish the culling.

  14. K-Bob
    June 20th, 2012 @ 3:55 pm

    Probably Bush’s fault.

    Now I’m gonna have to go read all about it.

  15. Bob Belvedere
    June 21st, 2012 @ 8:26 am

    And I always leave the lights on.

  16. K-Bob
    June 21st, 2012 @ 12:26 pm

    I keep a tire fire going out back to use as light.