After Frank Skinner’s beat poetry podcast maybe another programme could see him retrace the Beat journey to California, and be called Frankie Goes to Hollywood after the 1980s pop group!
GGF II?
If it included greenYgrey (and Frank: Road Trip), it could also be the new Gordon, Gino and Fred: Road Trip(just done USA!), with GGF capitals!
New Scooby Doo?
They could also do Scooby Doo, with Frank’s scruffy look and zany personality ideal to play Shaggy!?
Until then, there’s always the greenYgrey trilogy!
Free ebook on Smashwords (including Aussie Scooby: Humpty Doo):
Werewolf of Ozfinal week is going on so long that we’ve got time for a satirical comedy rebranding, parodying our own work along with lots of other things in modern society.
Scooby Doo Werewolf Rebranding
Hi, it’s Greenygrey. We think Goodbye to WoO has lost its appeal and impact, so once more inspired byScooby Doo and in line with our werewolfism, we’re rebranding it to Werewell to WoO Week for the second half of the epic farewell.
One of my oldest and biggest inspirations Scooby Doo pronounced its Ss as Rs, which was a lovable characteristic, as explained on scoobydoo.wikia.
Grey was of course lucky enough to meet the Humpty Doo in Humpty Doo, Northern Territories.
Darwin the whistler duck from Darwin, Northern Territories, hypothesised on the origins of species that the Humpty Doo was descended from Scooby Doo and Humpty Dumpty. It certainly looked like them.
Grey’s ghost writer, Marc Latham, thought it was a classic episode when he was editing Grey’s rambling rambles.
Rebranding WoO
Our rebranding Farewell (to WoO) to Werewell (to WoO) combines our Scooby Doo inspiration along with the W that has become an important letter in the Greenygrey world: second only to the G.
This is of course in line with the WWW inspiration that brought the Greenygrey into the human world, although picky buggers might argue it’s a WWWW, or at least WwWW.
Hi, it’s Greenygrey. It’s been a (busy) week since the lastWerewolf of Oz episode, so here’s another one. It’s quite a long episode, but there’s a punchline at the end, and lots of interesting and funny dialogue in the body of the blog.
This is a standalone episode, with little relevance for the main Werewolf of Oz plot, which reaches a totally thrilling conclusion tying together many of the threads from Grey’s epic journey. This is not one of them though.
However, this episode shows the growing relationship between Grey and Bonzo, while giving you the reader a light comedy break in this epic fantasy classic; the first solo(ish) expedition across Oz by Google maps, undertaken by our very own googler Grey. As you will see, Grey and Bonzo visit the Kakadu National Park, with the plot revolving around the city of Darwin and the town of Humpty Doo. Enjoy!
We departed Nitmiluk in the morning, warmly encased in our BOGOL jumpers. Bonzo said he felt limitlessly lucky, and there seemed no limits to our progress on the path, as we reached the Kakadu National Park in no time.
Sunset at the Doo (Photo credit: Rantz)
Nice Surprise at Alligator Wildman
Bonzo and I freshened up at the waterfall where the Wildman and Alligator rivers meet, as we didn’t fancy meeting the Wildman or Alligator on their own; our consensus theory was that they’d be too pre-occupied with each other at the waterfall to take any notice of us.
We were just emerging from the water when an extraordinary looking creature arrived on the beach. Its head reminded me of my ol’ hero Scooby Doo, but it seemed to have an egg body like that of Humpty Dumpty.
It was accompanied by a duck that always seemed to be whistling.
Ready for the Quack I Do in Kakadu?
The duck approached us and whistled, ‘Hello, I am Dr. Darwin, a local whistler duck quack, and this is my friend, the Humpty Doo, who also lives nearby. We have ventured east to Kakadu hoping to discover new species. We thought you might be of some interest, but we have concluded that you are both old species. Although there hasn’t been a werewolf seen in these parts for many a century.’
English: A male northern brushtail possum in Humpty Doo, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I returned the greeting, and thanked them for their interest, before saying I’d never seen a Humpty Doo before. Dr. Darwin said Humpty was an interesting creature, and he wasn’t sure how he’d evolved; it was ongoing research, but his theory on the origin of species was that the Humpty Doo was descended from an English civil war rhyme and a Hollywood cartoon dog.
So maybe I was right. I was excited, and asked if it really believed this. For the first time it did not whistle its opinion; instead it did quack, ‘I do.’
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Notes
Darwin and Humpty Doo are Northern Territories towns.
Scooby Doo (cartoon dog).
Humpty Dumpty (English civil war nursery rhyme character). Charles Darwin (19th century scientist, and his book: On The Origin of Species).
Hi, it’s Greenygrey. I was relieved that we chose Dawkins as the D of knowledge for the 3-D Greenygrey Y, as something was telling us to choose the Devil. Mind you, something else was telling us to choose Scooby Doo, so maybe it was all in our minds… Derren would think so…
Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Werewolf of Oz on Amazon
Today we have the prologue of Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps. It is free to download on Kindle again this Saturday and Sunday (May 5th and 6th) for Amazon Prime members. It reached the top 40 of the free downloads in its category during its last free weekend, so thanks to anybody who has taken an interest.
Grey didn’t have much time to write a prologue on the Werewolf of Oz blog, but it racked its brains for the book publication, as the first few pages are available to preview, and managed to remember its journey from the Greenygrey world to Oz, as well as a little ode about the book. Here it is:
Werewolf of Oz Free Prologue
Let this be my epic
although I am sceptic
my mind I tried to raise
hoping for literary praise
I let the cats out of the bag
so the dogs’ tails would wag
I hope I wasn’t howling upon
the wrong tree of life moonsun
silverlining and goldlining barks
echoing experience of funny larks
meeting people in places across Oz
Y? A fantasy quest created my cause.
1. PROLOGUE
Welcome everybody. It’s Grey Werewolf here. Regular readers of the Greenygrey will know me by now. For those who don’t, to cut a neverending story short, I’m one half of a legendary vegetarian werewolf. Green and I are the last of our Greenygrey kind as far as we know. We emerged into the human world while blogging our epic ramble across North America; before becoming Britain’s most celebritious werewolf. We are virtually legends in our own lifetime(s), which we think is (are) many centuries long.
We were divided after an evil force took over the Greenygrey world; Green was imprisoned and I was exiled to Oz.
Whizzing Earth’s space
I did race;
like Doctor Who’s Tardis,
through the northern
constellation of Camelopardus.
I think I passed through Cassiopeia
but to tell you the truth, it was all a blur;
it could well have been Andromeda.
Drifting through Ursa Major or Ursa Minor
I lost sight of the Great Wall of China
I recognised the three stars of Triangulum,
and felt a sense of equatorial equilibrium.
But then I saw another triangle
spinning my mind at an angle;
I asked ‘Dog Star’ Sirius
if it was aware of this?
It barked the name Triangulum Australe
adding I was now in the opposite locale.
When I saw the Southern Cross
I was no longer at a loss
I had read about constellation Crux
in some astronomical books.
I felt more at home in Chamaeleon
remembering my ability to chameleon
Norma was a lass, Hydrus a gas,
Mensa was a tester, Circinus a jester.
Into the atmosphere I whirled east to west
over the land of my looming test
I could make out the Great Barrier Reef
providing a valuable landmark brief
A long way from home I heard hound sound
whirled upside down I descended to ground.
It felt strange to be so far away from my Green other half, and I sure missed that limey lobo. Even though I didn’t choose my exile, I still hoped to enjoy myself and learn from my experiences, before one day being reunited with Green.
It turned out that I travelled to every state and territory in Oz; known to you as Australia; as Green and I did across North America. It was again quite an adventure. I met many famous people and creative products, and this time the story all came together in the end like pure fiction; unlike our American ramble, which read more like literary nonsense held together by acronyms until the very end.
I blogged the whole trip, and the chapters of this book are structured in line with the blogs. This prologue was the first of 142 blogs.
So, without further ado, and for you to view, here is my epic Ozyssey all edited for easy reading. It starts right at the beginning, when I landed all alone in the south of Western Australia.
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Notes
Camelopardus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and Triangulum are all northern sky constellations. Triangulum Australe, Crux, Chamaeleon, Norma, Hydrus, Mensa and Circinus are all southern sky constellations. Doctor Who is a television series featuring a time-traveller. The time machine in the series is called a Tardis.
Hi, it’s Grey. I’ve been editing the book again today, as usual, and it seems to be shaping up well for next week’s release. I’m not finding much I want to change any more. I was just reading about our time in the Kakadu park, and meeting whistler duck called Darwin, and the extraordinary creature known as a Humpty Doo; I told you about it before on the Werewolf of Oz. I didn’t know at the time that Darwin and Humpty Doo are both places in the Northern Territories. I thought you might like to see the finished version of that episode, which is chapter 25 in the book, so without further ado, here it is for you to view:
We departed Nitmiluk in the morning, warmly encased in our BOGOL jumpers. Bonzo said he felt limitlessly lucky, and there were no limits to our progress on the path as we reached the Kakadu National Park in no time.
Nice Surprise at Alligator Wildman
Bonzo and I freshened up at the waterfall where the Wildman and Alligator rivers met, as we didn’t fancy meeting the Wildman or Alligator on their own; our consensus theory was that they’d be too pre-occupied with each other at the waterfall to take any notice of us.
We were just emerging from the water when an extraordinary looking creature arrived on the beach. Its head reminded me of my ol’ hero Scooby Doo, but it seemed to have an egg body like that of Humpty Dumpty.
It was accompanied by a duck that always seemed to be whistling.
Ready for the Quack I Do in Kakadu?
The duck approached us and whistled, ‘Hello, I am Dr. Darwin, a local whistler duck quack, and this is my friend, the Humpty Doo, who also lives nearby. We have ventured east to Kakadu hoping to discover new species. We thought you might be of some interest, but we have concluded that you are both old species. Although there hasn’t been a werewolf seen in these parts for many a century.’
I returned the greeting, and thanked them for their interest, before saying I’d never seen a Humpty Doo before. Dr. Darwin said Humpty was an interesting creature, and he wasn’t sure how he’d evolved; it was ongoing research, but his theory on the origin of species was that the Humpty Doo was descended from an English civil war rhyme and a Hollywood cartoon dog.
So maybe I was right. I was excited, and asked if it really believed this. For the first time it did not whistle its opinion; instead it did quack, ‘I do.’
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Notes
Darwin and Humpty Doo are Northern Territories towns.
Scooby Doo (cartoon dog).
Humpty Dumpty (English civil war nursery rhyme character). Charles Darwin (19th century scientist, and his book: On The Origin of Species).
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