Notes From a Wednesday
As the US spirals further into corruption an ineptitude, I can’t help but wonder how much longer I will stay in this country. I left before, when the combination of George W. Bush and Brittany Spears constant inane drivel conspired to create a gelatinous miasma of stupidity so omnipresent that you choked whenever you drew breath. Now we’ve got Trump and Swift, a combination so stupefyingly dense as to become almost lethal.
To combat this, yesterday, I sat down to paint with my daughters. I’m going to do that more often I think. It doesn’t make the problems of the world go away, but it stops you from sitting cross-eyed staring at a 2 inch screen for 27 minutes.
An Eventful Week
It has been an eventful week. The stock market offsets losses of 500 or more points with gains of around 80. This kind of thing can’t go on forever. If I thought the world actually played by the rules that it set out, I’d be concerned. However, I know that rich people are never allowed to become poor, so the stock market won’t go completely down to zero. Once again the tax payers will be called upon to bail out the rich, and then the rich will spend the money on campaigns about how evil socialism is like they always do. However, now’s not a good time to have debt, so pay off your credit cards, your house, and your car. When the market tanks, put the money that used to go to payments back into stocks. It works.
The New Release and Recent Articles
Reviews are trickling in for my new release with Dan Woll, Paperclip. My article ‘Submit Early, Submit Often‘ was published and it seems to be performing pretty well. Dan shared it with the caveat, “whether you agree or not,” which I’d be happy to debate. What’s not to agree with? Sure, there are a couple guys with Ph.D’s on their walls and unseen manuscripts in their drawers who constantly tell me I know nothing about writing, but personally, I don’t think they’ve earned an opinion until they’ve signed a contract and allowed somebody else to see what they’ve produced. Still, when I bring up this point, those people turn away from me and go sulk with their other judgmental, over-educated, risk adverse friends (and then they poach my sayings off Facebook and pass them off as their own).
Oh, I also just got this new review: ‘The Reader of Acheron Review by Dystopian Shuffle.’ If you’ve got 5 seconds, please click on these articles. I’m not asking you to READ them, just go on them and leave a comment. Get the people riled up, it’s hilarious. Basically, the whole internet should be used to antagonize people, which brings me to Facebook.
Trump’s coming for your bump stock! Are you lunatics gonna stand for that?
Some of you who follow me on Facebook know that I just use the ubiquitous social platform as a farming ground to harvest the idiotic zeitgeist. One of my friends accused me of being a troll, but that’s too simplistic a term for what I do. A troll is only there to antagonize. I’m there to antagonize and learn. It’s a subtle difference but it’s as big as the difference between socialism and democratic socialism. To boil it down to its basic essence, I post open ended statements, wait to get a strike by somebody who is offended, then I cultivate the spark until it’s a flame of rage posting. All this was way easier before the midterms when the air got taken out of the Trump supporter’s sails. My prediction is that half of the information on the internet is going to be deleted in 2019, when the indictments come and people scramble to erase evidence that they ever supported that con artist.
Anyway, here are my other pithy Facebook comments, and a brief summary of what I got from them.
Children dying of dehydration at the US Border is #thewaronchristmas
It irritates me that people flip out about no snowflakes on the Starbucks cups, but the death of a child seeking shelter passes without a whisper. Do people watch ‘A Christmas Carol’ now and think “to hell with Tiny Tim, he’s poor?” The whole concept of the BS ‘War on Christmas’ warrants an article. Why am I the only person who snorts with derision whenever I hear somebody say it. Actually, people don’t say it much, I think their brains are highly developed enough to know that the concept is a total media creation. But they share memes that mention it, and that’s just as bad.
The ban of ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’ leaves more air time for wholesome classics like ‘Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer’
I mention this one because I saw somebody had stolen it and posted it as their own. That’s what the share button is for jerks.
Hmmmm so we have the youngest woman ever to get elected to congress, but not a whisper for Time’s person of the year?
This one actually led to a pretty good discussion with my author friend R. A. McCandless. He didn’t 100% agree with me so we went back and forth for about 30 exchanges, and then let it rest for a day, then I wrote an article naming Millennials as the 2018 Person of the year and R.A. agreed with that. Facebook really is a poor format for discussion, everything comes across as hostile. However, you can extract ideas from it if you’re not worried about offending people. By the way, McCandless is in the process of re-releasing the books in his excellent angel punk series with bold new covers, he’s been telling some entertaining tales of misadventures in publishing on his blog here, I recommend reading them.
Why doesn’t Trump start a Go Fund Me for the wall, you know, like the rest of us do to pay for health care?
hehehe.
Oh, also, some idiot was getting all this social medial praise for making his girl walk 5 miles to school because she was bullying on the school bus, she followed along behind her and filmed it. I tended to go online and say he was either ‘trash’ or a ‘jackass.’ But some ignorant people still think child abuse is the best way to parent. However, it occurred to me that the guy was committing a crime, so I pointed it out:
Ongoing Projects
I’ve got two manuscripts I’m currently working on, I hope to finish one of them mid-February. That’s my deadline, but whether I make it or not is a mystery. We’re still selling Paperclip at 99 cents, so please grab and review. Also, check out the review of Joe Bonadonna’s latest work that I just posted. Perhaps I’ll be back next Wednesday to offer some light explanation for everything I do, or perhaps not. In the meantime, have fun with your pithy comments on the posts I’ve linked to here. Have a great Wednesday! I know it’s like sitting in the middle seat on the airplane, but it’s today, so try to relax and enjoy it.
