waenshepherd.com is dedicated to the life
and work of the actor, writer, comedian and
composer Waen Shepherd. Conceived by that
very same person as a means by which he
might boast about his achievements while
also making it painfully plain how little he has
actually achieved, it is an autobiographical
hub from which the reader might explore the
life and work of the author, at the risk of
discovering that there is nothing really worth
exploring. It is therefore an undertaking of
enormous hubris and intense self-
flagellation, which has been and continues to
be both an immense joy and a tremendous
disappointment. Waen has rarely taken such
delight and such discomfort in droning on
and on about himself.
The reasons he did it and continues to do it
are manifold, and manifestly dull. On the
surface, it is a nicely-arranged collection of
semi-informative and mildly egocentric
encyclopedia entries, interspersed with
elements of infomercial, shopfront and job
application. Underneath, it is a bittersweet
assortment of dashed hopes and
desperation, coupled with crywank-levels of
violent narcissism and ineffectual posturing.
It has the potential to become a glorious
monument of indescribable vanity, or an
excruciating artifact of everlasting shame,
which gives it hypothetical creative power.
But it will probably be neither, which
ultimately makes it weak.
It is also unfinished, and will always be
unfinished. At least while he’s alive. If he’s no
longer alive, he’s deeply, deeply sorry that he
wrote this sentence, and he hopes it didn’t
make you cry. Just remember that he loves
you, and everything will be OK.
Oh and yes he did copy the design of this site
from a template provided in the web design
software. It’s supposed to be a website for a
pub.
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