I got more tweets from Mr. Eric Idle of Monty Python Fame. I think he has now tweeted me about 15 times altogether. This newest set has to do with my action/adventure/comedy sci-fi series of novels… available right over there is my sidebar, if you were wondering…

Book three of The Otherwhere Chronicles, which I am now editing, and have decided to title: Walking Around, has our hero meet an alien who learned to speak English by listening to Monty Python skits. He can only speak using lines from Monty Python sketches. He explains to our hero that he is the last living soul of a dying race… by using a bunch of lines from the infamous ‘Dead Parrot’ skit. It is only one short chapter of a long novel, but it is both hilarious and poignantly moving. I mean, it tears your heart out even while you are laughing.

Anyway, even though I am self-published and my total book sales… including the children’s book I wrote and did the art for… adds up to less than a couple hundred books, I didn’t want to use the Python bits without permission.

Eric Idle has been very helpful, getting me in contact with his assistant who is helping me contact the legal department at the group that handles these sorts of things. I want to be clear that he did not need to answer my tweets. He gets thousands of tweets a day. But he did. He is awesome. I think the way I edited the last email where I tried to show you part of our exchange, might have been a little confusing.

And he answered me a few other times when I was just being silly. Most of you will remember that I only started doing Twitter so I could get famous people to tweet to me so my older daughter would have to get on Facebook and admit to everybody that I was… am… still cool. She did do that… because I am. I don’t remember which celebrity response got her to do it. It might have been William Shatner. Or maybe it was when Dana Carvey of Saturday Night Live started following me on Twitter. Or it could have been the first time Eric Idle tweeted me back.

I suppose it doesn’t matter… what does matter is that I am still cool… oh… and also that Eric Idle is still cool.

So there you go.