Stress, Vampires, Fangs, and Paypal

[wednes]

If my brain had a cervix, it would totally be bruised.
Why?
Because today was a total and complete pounding mindfucker.
Seriously.

I've been having a terrible time focusing on poetry so I'm stupidly far behind in the poetry challenge. I'm not giving up, of course. Even if I only write 50 poems, that will still be far more poems than I've written in the last 10 years or so. Never hurts to have a few good poems around. I'm still going to try to catch up, and since I'm skipping the NaNoWriMo this year (I am, after all, a 5-time winner and undefeated champeen!!!) I'll have plenty of time.

Worked a short shift today. More like a long visit than an actual work shift. My coworkers are so damn cool and likable that working is sort of like hanging out with people I enjoy, except that we get interrupted a lot. You know, by having to do our jobs. First hour was listening to calls in a group and discussing them. In the next hour, I did over $1,000 in sales, which is a lot. And then...

I got an Email from the promotions chick at the Vampire Ball. I had given up on hearing from her oh, 4-5 weeks ago. Apparently she had some trouble with her computer or hotmail or something. Long and short of it is that I CAN sign and sell books there. Of course, I already spent $40 on tickets and have to spend another $110 on books and shipping. Couple that with gas monies, new tights, and the $35 I already spent on new makeups and custom fangs...and you're looking at a roughly $200 trip to see Voltaire. And that's before drinks, photo ops, and souvenirs. Yikes! He better be wicked awesome.
I frantically Emailed my publisher, who put the order in with the printer's. I'm donating some books to give as door prizes at the ball, and getting plenty more to sign and sell.
So if you're going to be anywhere near Flint, MI on October 24th, be sure to stop by the Vampire Ball and support the cause. It's a fundraiser!

Then I got an Email saying that my extra userpics are about to expire. Dang.

Obviously, you'll want to click on this to make it big enough to read:


By the way, this jackass on Comedy Central with the puppets is an ugly, racist, ass.
Jeff Dunham, maybe? I never thought I'd actually miss Carlos Mencia. Okay, I don't miss Carlos Mencia, but you know what I mean...

Comments

[derekfz.livejournal.com]

yeah. Jeff Dunham is aggressively unfunny. his act was pleasant enough at one time, but aside from doing much the same shtick (and some of the same jokes) he was doing in the 80s (i mean, come on, i remember seeing him on MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour circa 1990 and the jokes haven't fucking changed), he developed this weird kind of vaguely racist / xenophobic edge that appeals to the Jeff Foxworthy / Larry the Cable Guy demographic.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

aside from doing much the same shtick
you mean much the same STEEEEK

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I thought he looked familiar when I saw him with that "terrorist" puppet for the first time. I used to watch a ton of Comedy Central back when it was 75% standup, so I'll bet that was it. Even if he was funny, I don't think it's really okay to make a living joking about 9/11. I don't think our civil liberties will ever recover from that bullshit.

[cmdavi-70.livejournal.com]

If it is Jeff Dunham, I would have to concur. C's dad likes him and talked us into watching an hour of it one evening (Sixty minutes of my life that I'll never get back, I might add!). It's proud-to-be-ignorant, bubba-type humor, cut from the same cloth as Larry the Cable Guy, and maybe even less funny, if such a thing is possible.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I watched it kind of carefully at first because I couldn't believe something so blatantly racist would be on a regular cable channel. I thought I might be missing something. Nope. I thought with the blue-collar-comedy-tour that we had reached critical mass in terms of offensive, rednecky, white-trash humor. But no. It is, apparently, a bottomless pit.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

If my brain had a cervix
It's called the medulla oblongata.

this jackass on Comedy Central with the puppets
Omigod I HATE him! I totally agree with you, but buck_x and half our friends think he's the cat's ass.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Ha! You've got me there!

and yeah, I wasn't sure I could hate any show more than American Idol. I think this guy tops it in terms of loathsomeness.

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

I love your icon. The Simpson's The Shining was the one of funniest parodies I've ever seen.

After selling that TV Guide with the article about the 1997 miniseries version, I looked it up on Amazon. I was thinking about buying it, in part because I wanted to see the cut scene where Stephen King leads the corpse orchestra.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

WHAT?!? I had no idea that even existed, until you mentioned it, I mean. Have you seen it? I bet it's hilarious.

I agree. Treehouse of Horror 5 is my all time favorite Simps ep. and that is saying a lot.

[groovesinorbit]

R&I watched it again the other night. It's a fantastic ep.

[jeffpalmatier.livejournal.com]

In the TV Guide article, they had a photo of the musicians in makeup, which was pretty creepy, but they didn't show Stephen King. I think it's probably in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. Who knows? Maybe they restored it for the DVD release?

After I posted my comment, I went back over to Amazon and bought a copy of it. I don't remember the miniseries that well, so I thought I'd watch it again. I can't believe it's been twelve years since it was made!

[thehula.livejournal.com]

I know it's a lot of cash, but you're going to have SO MUCH FUN. And I can't imagine how it won't be awesome. Even if you don't sell a single book, the networking alone seems worth it. And then there is your handsome singing vampire...

:D

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Indeed, you are right.
H is gonna make me some bookmarks with the new book cover on them, so I can give them out and get people excited to buy it.

And yeah...I'm gonna also try to give a book to Voltaire. If he tells his legions of fans that it's good--well, that would be good for me.

[rivetkitten.livejournal.com]

Ah! I thought so! I've seen Ego Likeness advertising a show with Bella Morte (one of the first "goth" bands I saw in concert) in Flint. Of course it's the same one you'll be at.

I think that you'll enjoy the other bands, too. Ego Likeness has a nifty ethereal thing going on, and Bella Morte is all about the zombies. Also, of course, I'm sure that even if you don't sell a bunch of books *at* the party, at least some people will want to get it after they get home.