English Hero, American Nightmare

Song of the day: "The Touch" - Stan Bush (from the "Transformers: The Movie" soundtrack)

Site of the day: http://s8.invisionfree.com/nwfewrestling: Possibly the greatest website I've ever been to (This is the link to the forums, there is a link to the main page from there)

I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I had become a member of an e-fed, a website where strange people like me pretend to be wrestlers. Well, at the moment, e-feds are taking up a large part of my time. I'm still in the first one I joined, WWF, and I've joined a couple that have gotten nowhere, and I've quietly left. I even tried making my own e-fed, but it looks very amateurish, and I don't think it will last long.

But, at the beginning of December, I stumbled across a place called the NWF. I've been there less than two months, but I really feel like part of the furniture there. My character, the Eagle, an American-hating Brit, has taken off amazingly well, so much so that I was awarded the Best Newcomer of 2004 Award at the end of year awards show, less than 5 WEEKS after I joined! Everybody who is part of that fed, from the owner and the executive team down, make it feel like a great place to be part of. I was drafted into the writing team early on (always an honour), and have already written a fair few matches, but I get one hell of a buzz doing things on this fed. I think this is the first internet-related hobby that I've really felt that about.

No offence to any other feds I'm part of (especially the WWF, where I cut my teeth as an e-fedder, and have just been drafted into the heel faction of the World Champion), but the NWF feels like a professional outfit. Just today, I was browsing the site, and I discovered something amazing, which I didn't know before. They have their own internet store. And on that store, amongst parafanalia of almost every member of their roster, is a long-sleeved t-shirt bearing the name 'THE EAGLE' in Union Jack colours, and the slogan 'English Hero, American Nightmare.' And you can actually order these things, for real!!! It was utterly amazing to see, and as soon as I pay my credit card bill next week, there is nothing in the world that will stop me from ordering that t-shirt! It will cost me a paltry fifteen English pounds, including shipping from America (the irony of which is that it will probably arrive whilst Beth and I are on holiday in New York....), and that is too good a price to pass up to own a t-shirt of my very own e-fed character.

I feel like I could be part of NWF for a long time, and I'm damn sure that when I get that t-shirt i'll where it with pride. So, to D-Will, the owner of NWF, this is a huge THANK YOU for letting me be a part of your fed, and for giving me the opportunity to own a unique peace of nostalgia. My success in e-fedding is one more thing that makes me thing writing is the right career for me.

And if anyone's interested, today's song of the day is the Eagle's entrance music......