JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP 2 – Chapter 6 (excerpt)

BILLY GOAT GRUFF
Billy was the security guard that trained me. I got to know him, not in person, but through his legend. When I worked, he was off, and vice versa, so we rarely ever crossed paths. Occasionally, he’d pop by on his day off to say hello to the staff, and would come around to see how I was doing. I was the newbie, and he wanted to make sure that a) the staff was treating me well, and b) that I wasn’t fucking anything up.

JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP: SNEAK PEEK

Here are a few more snippets from the upcoming ‘True Tales of a Cemetery Cop’ book. It will be released as a paperback and eBook on October 3. You can read the first four chapters here for free:
http://gwntertainment.wixsite.com/cemeterycop

JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP: CHAPTER FIVE

During the hiatus I published more chapters of my upcoming ‘True Tales of a Cemetery Cop’ book on my website. It will be released as a paperback and eBook on October 3. You can read the first four chapters here for free:
http://gwntertainment.wixsite.com/cemeterycop

JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP: CHAPTER TWO

For a year now folks on Facebook have been asking me to write a book about my work in a number of cemeteries. The process has begun. Last week, we shared Chapter One here in DBAWIS. This week we continue with the sneak preview. Here for your reading pleasure is CHAPTER TWO….

JAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP: CHAPTER ONE

For a year now folks on Facebook have been asking me to write a book about my work in a number of cemeteries. The process has begun. Here for your reading pleasure is CHAPTER ONE….

JAIMIE VERNON – WHEN I WAS HERE

March 9th was an auspicious occasion. It was my sixth month as Verm Blart: Cemetery Cop and it would have been the 99th birthday of my maternal grandmother Marjorie Barker. As hard as it is to believe, these two things are connected. Bear with me and I’ll explain.

JAIMIE VERNON – NINE LIVES

I find myself at the front end of yet another re-invention of myself. When last I spoke of my day job I was driving automobiles for a subcontractor to one of Canada’s only two railroads. It wasn’t CN. The job nearly killed me. It was so labour intensive and the hours were so long that I actually don’t remember getting to or from work some days.

JAIMIE VERNON – JOB: SECURITY

Contrary to popular belief I haven’t always been in the music business. I’ve been playing music since 1978 (now retired), but my actual years working in the music industry – that is, getting paid for what I did – was 12 ½ years from November 1998 when I was hired as content editor for Sam The Record Man.com (see last week’s column) through June 2011 when my contract ended with dB Promotions doing radio promotion. I also ran my record label full-time simultaneously for 10 of those years. So, from the summer of 1979 until November 1998 I worked in both the private and public sector – that’s right, kids, I was a union man for awhile. But my work experience goes back even farther.