I suppose it all started back in the late 1970's.  While in my early teens I began playing coffee houses and youth conferences.  I had a song list that included such classics as "49 Rats," "Squashed Kitty," and "George the Frog."  The 80's rolled around and I formed a band called The Banos.  For the better part of 10 years I lead my band through ten albums, and sales well in excess of 500 units.  My last big single "My Wife Farts in Bed" was a crowd favourite.

Sadly before I knew it I had left Never Never Land and somehow grew up. Married life and my family took centre stage and my music career was over. My last album with the Banos "Natural Tendencies" remains to this day an unfinished work (I've heard that the Japanese bootleg of the rough mixes goes for up to 5 bucks - Canadian).

Enter the 90's and on a weekly basis (just during the summer, 52 times is a lot - I'd be hard pressed to think up that many stupid stories.) I would sit down in front of my old box (a spunky little 386/20SX), and let my mind plop its way onto a blank piece of paper.  Then via the wonders of modern technology I would fax it off through the phone lines to my brother.  Of course he would never write back, or call, or acknowledge my letters, but I knew he got them, because on the send data part of my fax machine I could tell it was received.  Whether he read them or not I don't know, but I did my part.

When I first thought about collecting stuff from my zines I figured that no one out there would care or want to read or more importantly buy a copy of my completed works.  After all 20 bucks is a lot of money to shell out for badly written sophomoric humour.

Response has been overwhelming.  To date I've made so much money selling old back issues of The Banophernalian I've been able to pay off my outstanding Visa bill.

The Next logical step was to go world wide.  So I started with some of my favourite junk and plopped it down and put it up and voila!

As you'll soon find out a lot of what I write is nothing more than silly ranting about bodily functions.  I find humour in strange places.  Hopefully you'll find this strange place has humour in it too. 

Regards, 

Jevon 
Editor and Chief Bottle Washer 
1998

Additional.

Over the last few years my site has grown from a few short stories, to a fairly robust site featuring not only my silly short stories, but a whole whack of music and book reviews, and whatever else strikes my fancy. Take a look around you'll probably enjoy yourself.

Jevon the Tall
2002

Even more

So here it is 2005, and the little site still isn't making me any money, nor is it making me famous. One has to ask, "Why?" to which I can only respond, "Why not?"

Jevon
2005