a beautiful revolution: blog: Bookmark One

Bookmark1

I am a bookmark. On June 5th Andre made me. He said I was the bestest bookmark he had ever made and my 'funny face' makes him roar with laughter.

Yesterday, I spotted Andre making a new bookmark. I asked him why, if I am the bestest bookmark he has ever made, would he feel the need to make another?

Andre said he wasn't making another bookmark, he was just doing a drawing and that I am being paranoid and my needy ways are beginning to get him down. I am not the bookmark I used to be. I have changed.

I have not changed! It is you that has changed! I said. Just because I haven't actually got a heart or a brain, it doesn't mean I'm stupid. I can still feel things! And I know you are planning to replace me with another!

Well that was it, Andre just picked me up and threw me in the bin - where I still am now - he said that if I didn't calm down he 'bloody well would' make another bookmark, and then he stormed out of the bedroom and is now sitting downstairs, in the kitchen, doing God knows what?

'Drawing' he'll no doubt say.

But I know better, the writing is on the wall for me - soon I shall be replace by a much thinner bookmark. A sexy streamlined strip of blandness. You just see if I'm wrong. You just see.

Comments

aww, don't be sad.
Why don't you ask andre, very nicely ,if he can put you in your favourite book ? That way, even if he does replace you with another sexy streamlined version, you'll have the consolation of being amidst pages you love,with words that might inspire you, rather than lying all forlorn and crumpled , in the bin ?
It's just an idea, but I'm sure andre has a kind heart and would grant you that much, even if he is tired of your needy ways....

Posted by: isabelle | July 18, 2006 at 10:43 AM

No... perhaps you have reason to fret. You were worthless to begin with, and you always will be. Just remember how replacable you are... a few simple scissor cuts away from utter destruction. Just wait until trash day... then you'll see where all the naughty bookmarks go...

Posted by: Nick | July 18, 2006 at 11:41 AM

But Bookmark One, you'll always be the first.

Posted by: BlondebutBright | July 18, 2006 at 03:39 PM

err, actually, and just between me and you, bookmark one was not the first:

BOOKMARK was the first

http://www.abeautifulrevolution.com/andre/2006/02/two.html

Posted by: andre | July 18, 2006 at 04:03 PM

i'm not asking for myself,you understand, but for bookmark one....um..what happened to BOOKMARK?

Posted by: laurel | July 18, 2006 at 06:19 PM

Andre it is time to pull the curtains and let some sunshine in. Unless you are still in the kitchen, in which case I hope the organic fair trade coffee is brewing.

Posted by: cosmosgirl | July 18, 2006 at 08:01 PM

Men are so fickle and cruel. Look around you - is there anyone else in the bin who you can make friends with? Perhaps Andre will get jealous, and beg you to come back?

Posted by: rachie | July 19, 2006 at 03:25 AM

bookmark one, you can come live with me. i have many pages you can live within.

andre, i love your writing, it makes me smile.

Posted by: emma m | July 19, 2006 at 03:32 AM

Thank you emma m, I shall tell Andre to stop being a moody-sod ... or else I'm of to live with emma m !

[where do you live? Oh I hope it's Hackney]

Posted by: andre | July 19, 2006 at 03:44 AM

i know a fantastic travel card which doubles as a bookmark

Posted by: piu piu | July 19, 2006 at 04:16 AM

Bookmark - sadly this is life. Men are fickle fickle creatures and are always on the look out for greener grass metaphorically speaking.

Love yourself and you can't go wrong.

Posted by: Celeste | July 19, 2006 at 04:25 AM

June 5th is my birthday ... I know that's not relevent really but I just thought I would share the fact that I share a birthday with bookmark one!!!
Bookmark one -> get out of the bin and stand up for yourself !!!!!!!

Posted by: Virg | July 19, 2006 at 06:05 AM

Virg:

http://www.abeautifulrevolution.com/andre/2006/04/what_when_why.html

Posted by: andre | July 19, 2006 at 06:09 AM

Ha ha ha ha !!!
Yes OK Andre -> I apologise +++ for taking the attention off YOU YOU Beautiful you !!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!

Posted by: Virg | July 19, 2006 at 07:23 AM

bookmark one, in answer to your question I live a wee bit away from Hackney (Scotland to be percise). but andre could just pop you in an envelope and you'd be here in a jiffy. you'd be very welcome because at the moment i irritate everyone by folding down the corners of my books as to keep my place.

Posted by: emma m | July 19, 2006 at 09:08 AM

Sometimes people need more than one bookmark. Wouldn't you like Andre to make you a nice lady bookmark?

Posted by: Anji | July 19, 2006 at 10:56 AM

ahahahahahaha his funny face made me laugh too :-)

Posted by: katie | July 19, 2006 at 11:47 AM

I don't know about you, Bookmark One, but I think Andre is the best. He makes me giggle, he makes me think.

Posted by: guyana-gyal | July 19, 2006 at 12:08 PM

GG you are too kind.

Posted by: andre | July 19, 2006 at 12:49 PM

bookmark one - perhaps one day you will see that it was better to have been Andre's bookmark even for a short time than never to have felt his touch as he moved you from page to page. I wish you well.

Posted by: snowqueen | July 19, 2006 at 04:53 PM

fuck, it used to be only your site popping up and now it is beautiful revolution by unilever. bastards. you should have this title copyrighted. bastard corporations.

Posted by: mag | July 19, 2006 at 05:22 PM

a beautiful revolution . com does belong to me?

who is unilever?

Posted by: andre | July 19, 2006 at 06:08 PM

Unilever - international manufacturer of leading brands in foods, home care and personal care.
like dove soap...wtf?
google

Posted by: laurel | July 19, 2006 at 10:44 PM

Yes, you'd better have the title of your blog copyrighted, Andre. Or those big corporations can say you stole their slogan. But then, you can prove when you started this blog, if you had the title before they did and so on.

Posted by: guyana-gyal | July 20, 2006 at 07:19 AM

oh for god sake, oooh... maybe they will offer me cash for the dot com?

Posted by: andre | July 20, 2006 at 07:21 AM