it’s a completely senseless question in itself, but how’d you get the self-interlocutor idea to make an analysis so pleasant to read? www i’m just reading through some of your stuff right now, but you definitely have a thing for captivating eloquence. great analysis too! ah, i don’t where i’m getting with this though. anyway, great job!

Well, it kinda just ‘happens.’  The ‘Rivals’ series is the product of actual Skype conversations between me and my best friend, Jim the Editor (with the exception of the second one, on Barry, Lucas and Dawn, which happened when we were both home for Christmas and just went for a walk together instead).  Obviously they’re not a transcript – I polish them up quite a bit; our actual conversations include far more pointless tangents and indecipherable inside jokes – but I type up notes as we’re talking, and those form the skeleton of what I write, so the finished entries follow the path of the original conversation, and there are usually several lines of our exact words, if I can remember them.  It was Jim’s idea, actually.  Sort of an experiment in a different writing style.  I’m glad you think it’s working!