For the longest time I said I wouldn't do it. I hate book trailers, especially those YA ones with angels getting all emo and vampires sobbing in a cafe somewhere. I broke down and made one, though. People seem to like it, though the music, which I also made, freaks them out a bit. I posted this on my book blog, but since more people read this one, I thought I'd post here. Enjoy. And if it intrigues you, buy the damn book!
22.12.12
16.12.12
The Strangest Searches Ever
People seem to like when I post these. This latest batch of searches that cause people to end up at my blog are bizarre beyond the standard bizarre I get. I won't even post the ones that are blatantly sexual. These are just the strangest of the strange, and they were all strange this time. I'm just going to list them, with perhaps some commentary. Enjoy?
mouth blood
beautiful blood
blood body
blood sexy
bomb baby plain
bomb fuck
cockholes in public toilet
every 30 second someone's mouth swerve out of control and facebook friendship die -All I can really say to this one is, "What the fuck?"
fold paper 12 times
hacked human pony
junkies masturbating
monkey egg sacs meaning
naked male sixteen
naked women in hell
police car lights wet pavement
realtyamatureporn -I'm not sure if this is some new genre of porn brought on by the housing bubble or if someone just can't spell.
sex oversea porn horse woman
sexsy [sic] girls open body
vintage penis -Why?
women teeth bite into penis
I can only imagine what January will bring. On the plus side, I've got The Secret King to enjoy for the end of the world. Merry X-Mess ... if there is one.
Mandatory FTC Disclaimer: Clicking on a link may earn me some cash.
mouth blood
beautiful blood
blood body
blood sexy
bomb baby plain
bomb fuck
cockholes in public toilet
every 30 second someone's mouth swerve out of control and facebook friendship die -All I can really say to this one is, "What the fuck?"
fold paper 12 timeshacked human pony
junkies masturbating
monkey egg sacs meaning
naked male sixteen
naked women in hell
police car lights wet pavement
realtyamatureporn -I'm not sure if this is some new genre of porn brought on by the housing bubble or if someone just can't spell.
sex oversea porn horse woman
sexsy [sic] girls open body
vintage penis -Why?
women teeth bite into penis
I can only imagine what January will bring. On the plus side, I've got The Secret King to enjoy for the end of the world. Merry X-Mess ... if there is one.
Mandatory FTC Disclaimer: Clicking on a link may earn me some cash.
8.12.12
The Power of Pranks -- A Suicidal Nurse and a Fantasy Land
Two DJs called an Australian hospital and pretended to be a prince and a queen in order to get information on the Duchess of Cambridge. The end result was a prank learned about throughout the world and the nurse who fell for it killing herself.
I like playing pranks (last night was one prank after another in Old Town much the uncomfortable amusement of Butter Licker). Anyone who knows me knows I am fascinated by the power of pranks to transform reality. I have shut down towns, have had police swarm a house, and other amusing things. Pranks are like alchemy.
When word of the nurse's suicide got out, a few people asked me if that made any sense to me, and if I would perhaps consider such things before playing another prank. After all, it seems like such a trival thing to commit suicide over. A prank call? Well, no, I won't consider that before playing another prank, and yes it makes perfect sense, but only if you understand that aforementioned transformative quality of pranks.
The nurse who killed herself lived in a fantasy world. She granted a prince and a queen greater social respect and power than they really have. They are really nothing more than figureheads, but this nurse, like many other people, think they are more than that. When she was shown how fragile that belief system is, she took her life. To me and many others it seems trivial, and I believe she may have bought into that fantasy more than a lot of people, but a lot of people do buy into that false world (and many others) on some level and are therefore easy prey to people who understand the tenuous nature of reality. If you have invested heavily into that reality, suicide is understandable when that reality is shown to be all smoke and mirrors. Understandable, but still tragic and senseless -- no disrespect meant to the dead.
Whether your fantasy land is inhabited by queens and princes, dragons, faith that replaces rational thinking not in times of crisis but in standard matters, or any number of other things that are believed without hesitation, then you can easily find yourself victim to people like me. Your investment in that reality dictates your actions once the wool is ripped from your eyes. Had this nurses grasp of reality not have included queens and princes she would have been possibly humilated, but she would have understood the sympathy based around the fact that we have all been victims of pranks at one time or another. Instead, she obviously had a very hard time understanding such a thing because her world had been turned inside out.
So, yes, it is understandable, but also very senseless, like many suicides. Will it stop me from playing pranks? No. My life is an experiment in the reality of reality. I enjoy playing with it, manipulating it and turning it upside down. I don't do it to be mean (usually). I do it with a sense of wonder and to see how people will react because people fascinate me. I actually believe I could cause suicide through the use of reality manipulation in the form of pranks or otherwise. I don't do that, though. That isn't me. It wasn't the goal of these DJs, either. Most rational people wouldn't kill themselves over this sort of thing ... but, in all fairness, I have never found a belief in queens and princes and their social status to be all that rational in the first place.
I like playing pranks (last night was one prank after another in Old Town much the uncomfortable amusement of Butter Licker). Anyone who knows me knows I am fascinated by the power of pranks to transform reality. I have shut down towns, have had police swarm a house, and other amusing things. Pranks are like alchemy.
When word of the nurse's suicide got out, a few people asked me if that made any sense to me, and if I would perhaps consider such things before playing another prank. After all, it seems like such a trival thing to commit suicide over. A prank call? Well, no, I won't consider that before playing another prank, and yes it makes perfect sense, but only if you understand that aforementioned transformative quality of pranks.
The nurse who killed herself lived in a fantasy world. She granted a prince and a queen greater social respect and power than they really have. They are really nothing more than figureheads, but this nurse, like many other people, think they are more than that. When she was shown how fragile that belief system is, she took her life. To me and many others it seems trivial, and I believe she may have bought into that fantasy more than a lot of people, but a lot of people do buy into that false world (and many others) on some level and are therefore easy prey to people who understand the tenuous nature of reality. If you have invested heavily into that reality, suicide is understandable when that reality is shown to be all smoke and mirrors. Understandable, but still tragic and senseless -- no disrespect meant to the dead.
Whether your fantasy land is inhabited by queens and princes, dragons, faith that replaces rational thinking not in times of crisis but in standard matters, or any number of other things that are believed without hesitation, then you can easily find yourself victim to people like me. Your investment in that reality dictates your actions once the wool is ripped from your eyes. Had this nurses grasp of reality not have included queens and princes she would have been possibly humilated, but she would have understood the sympathy based around the fact that we have all been victims of pranks at one time or another. Instead, she obviously had a very hard time understanding such a thing because her world had been turned inside out.
So, yes, it is understandable, but also very senseless, like many suicides. Will it stop me from playing pranks? No. My life is an experiment in the reality of reality. I enjoy playing with it, manipulating it and turning it upside down. I don't do it to be mean (usually). I do it with a sense of wonder and to see how people will react because people fascinate me. I actually believe I could cause suicide through the use of reality manipulation in the form of pranks or otherwise. I don't do that, though. That isn't me. It wasn't the goal of these DJs, either. Most rational people wouldn't kill themselves over this sort of thing ... but, in all fairness, I have never found a belief in queens and princes and their social status to be all that rational in the first place.
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