A couple highlights:
— one of my excerpts is now being linked approvingly by a porn site out of the United Arab Emirates which features fat naked ladies having every orifice filled at the same moment in time. Awesome! Needless to say, the book they link to (ON THEIR MAIN PAGE) is not a porn book. It is a novel. I don’t know what to do about such situations. Who do I contact to say (in Arabic), “Take that fucking link off your filthy site”?
— one of my excerpts is being linked to approvingly in a post that contains the words, “Now I am not comparing Obama to Hitler, but …” Oh. Of course you’re not. Needless to say, the book they link to has nothing to do with Obama – it’s a book that describes the swooning response of crowds to Hitler in the 1930s. Again, it’s an odd thing. How do you say, “Please don’t ever link to me again”? Oh well. The blog has ZERO traffic as far as I can tell. So that’s good. God forbid some moron comes from that person’s site to my site and think that I in any way agree or endorse such ridiculous thinking.
— one of my excerpts about Macedonia CONTINUES to get me into trouble. A flame-war broke out in Cyrillic on a Macedonian message-board a couple years ago – using MY STUPID BOOK EXCERPT as a launching-off place. I have now received an email from some dude saying, “Do you want to make a big splash in the media this election year? Do some posts on the Macedonia-Obama connection.” If you read me for even 2 seconds, you know I have no interest in “making a big splash in the media”. Or at least not the media he’s talking about. I’d love to have film reviews published in “the media” – but that’s not what this dude has in mind. He’s all fired up with his CAUSE! And obviously it was that stupid book excerpt that I posted in freakin’ 1982 that brought him to my site. But it’s a good book excerpt. Biased, yes – but I just post the excerpt. Food for thought. I have considered taking it down – because I certainly don’t want to ignite a civil war just because I posted a dumb paragraph from a book. I did enjoy seeing people arguing over the book excerpt in another language – and I actually received some lovely emails in stilted English from Macedonians not only thanking me for my thoughts but thanking me for even knowing where Macedonia is and that it exists. I do what I can to counter-act Kellie Pickler’s horrific ignorant influence. One blog-post at a time.
