Slappy is the incarnation of the Blind Monkey Review’s main collaborative team. He was created to provide somewhat of a comedic outlet (hence his crazy appearance and all) while communicating his benefctor’s love of books, movies and music.

Slappy originated at a small party one night …

I was telling the Blind Monkey and a couple of other friends about a very strange and disturbing dream I had the night before. In this dream, I was a member of the SPICE GIRLS; I actually was on stage and performing with those talented ladies from Britan. In the twenty eight years I have walked this earth, I have never had a more misaligned and frightening dream, and that includes the recurring childhood nightmare when I was being chased in a cornfield by a vampire. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula to be exact. But that is another of column altogether.

So, as I am telling this story, my friends decide this is the funniest thing I have said in quite a while. There was a lot of laughing and guffawing and slapping (no pun there) of the knees. Then, all of a sudden, the Blind Monkey has an breakthrough: “Which SPICE GIRL were you?” I told him I wasn’t one of the existing Girls, so almost immediately, I was dubbed: Slappy Spice. The name stuck, of course, and for a few months I weathered being called Slappy at parties, at dinner, and on just “hang out and watch TV days”…

Until the day Slappy the monkey was born…