For those who listen to Ross Solly at 733am on 720abc radio you'll catch my drift - a lot of story and just a hint of sport. This has been the successful recipe of the Scribe since the 1999/2000 season when Mario Cavallaro's keen ear for a great tale began gracing the pages of the Darlington Review.
At post match BBQs he slys on over like the alleged Warren Beatty does in Carly Simon's "You're so Vain" to take a seat and eavesdrop for an embarrassing escapade of a club member. Feigning interest he tops up your wine, grins, and states something akin to "Shelley my darling you're looking lovely as ever. What have you been up to lately....." The unwitting member has the misfortune to read all about the conversation retold in the back pages of the Review a short while later. Mario has been happy to recount some of his own misadventures too, lost shopping, broken windows, goats and horses....
In his last editorial he claims to have mastered most technological devices, this, like many of his stories was more fiction. Most of the technology he has mastered has seen little advance since the bronze age, but he does work a bolster and hammer beautifully. Even though we have had 20 years of the internet, and 30 years of personal computers, Mario's facsimile machine (very dear to him) has finally given up the ghost. He wonders at iPod Nanos and iPad 2s, Kindles, blogs, and external hard drives with 3 terabytes. Conversion to typing at glowing screens has been a bridge too far. He has scoured every country clearing sale unsuccessfully for a replacement fax to send his handwritten etchings to the Review. No luck.
So his 2B will rest in his pencil case, and his stories will be told verbally to horizontal, partially pain relieved punters who are counting the minutes and wishing they were being tarred and feathered instead.
Well done Scribe Mario, thanks for the 12 years of great tales.
Sorry. No cricket this month.......
James {scribe}
Marios office
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