Promoting Politely

Hey! Isn't that an Oxymoron?

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This morning - May 13, 2002 - I was talking to a friend about the (often sullied, even drug through the mud...LOL! So seldom understood or appreciated...) art of promotion, whether it be a songwriter "pitching" a tune, or a painter talking up new works, or most anything marketable by anyone who cannot afford an agent...

Remember the "taboo" about self-promotion?

Who doesn't?

We all have something to sell, even if it's nothing...
but the notion that nobody should sell me anything
I don't really want, period...LOL!

We've all been pestered by sellers (chaps, in the UK) who can't seem to take a hint, or -dang it! pesky vacuum cleaner guy's got his foot in the doorway...(sound of W.C. Field's voice here) - NO for an answer...

I'm a songwriter, who - if I don't represent myself - won't get any publicity unless I myself come up with an amusing presentation...YET, because of the nature of what I write and advocate, civility in its most natively organic sense, I often find myseld in a bind: How to present the material in such a way that doesn't offend?

In the course of reflecting upon this dilemma that artists who must represent their own interests find themselves "on the horns of", I came up with a rather neat, concise phrase(unlike this rambling account...G.F.E.T.E.).

It follows the structure of "Keep on the Sunny Side of LIFE"...the song that gets sung at the end of the Monte Python movie - LIFE OF BRIAN...(no...that's not actually right - "Sunny Side..." is a bluegrass tune, very sentimental...The Bright side Of LIFE is what they bloody well SING! Heh...heh, "Can I Join your Group?")

Stay on the Polite Side of Pester

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