My Froggish Alter-Ego

I'm an Odd, facetious frog called, Etak. ...r'b't....r'b't....r'b't...

I live primarily in a leaf; it's not the Taj Mahal, but hey, it's cosy.
I live with my room-mate, Flecko. He never pays the bills, but sometimes...you just have to let him off. He's usually out somewhere, testing his wacky ideas and experiments; they all backfire, and guess who has to pay for the damage? Well, I can give you a clue: Me!

My nightly habitat consists of roaming the streets in search of food, and drink. I poison my prey, so you better watch out!

I'm really spotty; mostly green. My head, and my back are gold coloured.

My work? I work down at The Dry Leaf Patch. The hours are long, but the pay's good. Besides, I need the money to support Fleckie.
Girlfriend? Nah. I'm a celibate toad, and proud of it.

As I'm writing this tasty blog; laptop rested on my knee-less, twig-sized legs, I wonder: I wonder what it'd be like to have a video game about me! ...hang on, hang on..

"Abe?"
"Yibbu" Abe replied promptly.
"What's the deal with your Video Game agreement?"
"Wait!" shouted Abe, firmly.
"Well, the initial success of my first two games, led to my production company making a new one!" exclaimed Abe, excited.
"What..this was Munch was it?" I carefully pond-ered.
"Indeedily-doodily! ..wait, wrong show." Abe announced; embarrased.
"After production had ceased, my production company, "Pond-World Inhabitants" informed me that the game was being transfered to the xBox!" he said, weakly.
"Oh, no!" I gasped. "Surely y.."
"No, Etak. If only I could." Abe muttered, disappointedly.
"I asked them why, but all they would ever res-pond was, 'Oh stop kidding yourself, Abe. Xbox gives, and has given us way more power over creative design then that dratted old Playstation junk.'
"You take that back!" cried Abe.
Abe sighed. Accepting his destiny.
"Well, I'm glad you're happy. This is the last you'll see of me. If you change your mind, great, I'll be waiting. But until then, it's not going to happen. Find another main character." Abe exclaimed.

"And...they didn't bother me again. But just recently, they consulted me about this new game called, 'Stranglers Bath'."
"At first, I was hesitant, so I asked the dreaded question. 'Is it?' I simply asked; as I felt no need to go into details. We all knew why I was there.
"No, Abe. No." he shrugged.
So I sighed. "I see."
"And I just walked straight out of that office, and never returned".

"Tell us more!" I exclaimed.
"Stop it!" screamed Abe, as he swiftly slapped me.
"S..sorry Abe. I'm just intrigued!".
"Work!" said Abe, as he started to walk back to his cave with Alf.


"Well" I said to myself, "Maybe a Video Game Character isn't the life for me after all".
This is Etak, signing out.