The current "got it" champ and ruler of Convert's Corner this month is Gina Webb of Creative Loafing in Atlanta. Kudos from the Web site to the Webb-ster who captures the spirit of St. Sol beautifully in her "Vibes" review of 13 January. St. Gina invokes The Big and Tall Church by name and offers it the precious fragment: "Reading more like Alice in Wonderland than the Bible..." Citing Frazier, Campbell and even the work she was assigned, she proves that actually reading books is no handicap to reviewing them. Hats off, three cheers and many thanks, Ms. Webb!

Further Testimony:
"As much as the world needed a savior in the time of Christ, our country needed a liberator in the time of Elvis... We wanted to be a new country, to liberate ourselves from the past, and all these feelings were embodied in the pelvic thrust of one man." --Christine Flanagan Honolulu Weekly

New Orleans' own Madonna Mari unearthed this odd bit of apocrypha from the rockocshic records and submitted it to the Center: The Dead Clambake sea scrolls? Or how about the story of a wise old king who decided that the fairest way to handle two women, both wanting a piece of a peanut butter and banana sandwich, would be to cut it in half, until one woman said, "No! Rather than see the sandwich cut in half, I'll let her have the sandwich! To which the king said, "Because of your concern for the sandwich, you must truly want the sandwich more than the other wench. How about a nice cold glass of moo to go with it?" Otherwise known as the parable of wise old King Creole Solomon...

TGOE '96 News

Blizzard Birthday '96 saw TGOE author Louie Ludwig trying to make pilgrimage to the Mud City after readings at Borders in Philadelphia and White Flint Mall (the country's biggest Babylon of bookstores) when the King's birthday frosting closed all roads and runways.

Thanks to the virtues of Virtuosity, appearances were made by Radio and PictureRadio in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and even Mud City. Much thanks and cheers to Gary, Garry, Cornbread, Amy, Mike and Kevin. Bev, Daphne, Curtis S. the Angel let's not lose touch. Can we talk? Get well, Mady.

Print support has been gratifying, also, with special thanks for T.Z. Turner from Columbus, St. Alan of Hartford, the Idle Chatterer of Syracuse, St. Gina the Loafer (see Convert's Corner). Mummed thanks to the Philadelphians Inquiring, Weekly and Paper and a big Aloha to Christine!

As usual, keep up the fight to shelve TGOE! Bookstores are catching on and actually starting to stock it. Ask your newstand/comic store/record store if they can get THE GOSPEL OF ELVIS. Giddyup, Gideons!

(There's always mail-order---SEE BALD-FACED PITCH)