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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Retro Comic Spotlight
Hey, look at me. I'm putting up websites. One after another. I can't seem to stop. In fact, I just might give up blogging altogether and just put up websites. Put them up just like a farm wife "puts up pickles" for later. Might as well. Can't dance.
When they started calling them all "comics" I thought the "funny papers" had come to TV or maybe "comic books" had finally gotten on the tube. Back when I was a youngster, a boy who told jokes on TV might have been called a "junior comedian" and a girl who told jokes on TV more than likely would have been called a "comediette" and hardly anybody would have cared.
Retro Comic Spotlight is my latest creation and this website has nothing to do with me or my books or my blogs or any science fiction or comedy creations of mine. Retro Comic Spotlight is my fourth website at Webnode (bless them for putting up with me) and it pays homage to the kings and queens of stand-up comedy, guys and gals who told jokes and funny stories on shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Jack Paar Show, The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. Back in the 20th Century.
Yeah, I was a big fan of 20th Century stand-up comics, back when a man who told jokes was called a "comedian" and a woman who told jokes was called a "comedienne". Nowadays, they think men and women are somehow interchangeable. Hmmph. Not on your life. Yep, they call them all "comics" in the 21st Century. Comics. Not to be confused with the Sunday "funnies".
When they started calling them all "comics" I thought the "funny papers" had come to TV or maybe "comic books" had finally gotten on the tube. Back when I was a youngster, a boy who told jokes on TV might have been called a "junior comedian" and a girl who told jokes on TV more than likely would have been called a "comediette" and hardly anybody would have cared.
Today we'd be knee-deep in "hissy fit" doo-doo and opportunistic, discriminatory lawsuits if we pulled "insensitive" politically-incorrect stunts like that and I guess that's why everything that moves on TV and tells jokes today is called a "comic". I guess that's better than watching a bunch of "comedy persons" on TV. Hell, yes. But I don't know. I kind of miss the old days. Like John Housman said about World War I — as opposed to The Cold War — in the spy movie "Three Days of the Condor": "I miss that kind of clarity."
I just hope they never come out with a joke machine. If they ever do, they'll probably call it a stand-up "comic", even if it looks like a Hoover upright vacuum cleaner. But, hey, I put up another new website this week. And, y'know, I think there's still a little bit of room on that shelf.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Michael Casher Tube
At the end of February I spent way too much time building a new website just to organize my 32 promotional videos for you. I also put up this new website because On March 7th YouTube will be automatically replacing my customized SciFiForThinkers Channel with another generic-looking page that I'll have to "spruce up" as much as I can. I guess most web users want constant change, even if it means giving up something really cool for something that's not so hot. Just as long as it's the latest thing. Wow, what crap. Hey, if it's not broken, don't fix it.
You bet, I'm tired of people just "up and changing" what I work so hard to create. I'm reminded of my old "Science Fiction for Thinkers at Lulu" page that's now a generic-looking "Author Spotlight" at Lulu.com. Oh well, they own those websites, not me. But I do own the copyrights to all 70 of my videos, including the 32 professional videos I uploaded to YouTube this past year.
So, if you want to see my YouTube videos on a website that has more of "me" in it than the new SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube, visit Michael Casher Tube. And, yep, I'm 99.9% sure that this latest "upgrade" of my internet presence, without my permission, has pretty much cured me of my addiction to Windows Movie Maker. I've got better things to do than to keep beating a dead horse that was going nowhere in the first place.
So, if you want to see my YouTube videos on a website that has more of "me" in it than the new SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube, visit Michael Casher Tube. And, yep, I'm 99.9% sure that this latest "upgrade" of my internet presence, without my permission, has pretty much cured me of my addiction to Windows Movie Maker. I've got better things to do than to keep beating a dead horse that was going nowhere in the first place.
So, basically, I took the SciFiForThinkers Channel on the road again. Only this time I'm running the show. Why shouldn't I? This is my stuff.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Spacecasts
This week I had a notion to spotlight four of my Junk TV videos by adding them to the SciFiForThinkers Channel at YouTube. Then I had a hankering to put up a new page at Science Fiction for Thinkers.com to showcase them there as embedded videos. The results made me all excited so I got the bright idea of doing a special screenshot of that page and then linking it in a blog post to my website.
All right, then. I've done that already. Now I'll call it a day. So I will.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
On The Rebound
Yep, I went missing for a while and I'm sort of back but not with the same set of priorities I had before I went missing. In fact, as far as going missing is concerned, I went missing ten years ago last month when I started penning my first novel. And I'm still missing. Why am I still missing? Because, when you finally realize that you'd better do something you've always wanted to do and that you'd better do it now, before it's too late, you go missing from a world that no longer needs you or wants you because, my God, you've changed. Even though you haven't.
So, I'm still missing, all right, and I've been on the lam from the powers-that-be all my life, so that's nothing new. Not to me. And, as far as those Illuminati power brokers and the celestial pricks who toy with this planet like it was theirs and not ours, and all the rest of the bottom-feeding cowards are concerned, I think they stopped looking for me when they realized that, because of my unpopularity with readers who rely almost exclusively on the New York Times Bestseller List to tell them what to read, I'm no threat to The New World Order at all.
Hey, that's just fine with me. I've got better things to do than help keep a ship afloat that's been slowly sinking all my life, especially when the passengers couldn't care less about it. And, since I'm not the captain of this ship, I have no intentions of going down with it. You got it, this sinking ship is Earth. You got it, Jack. I've got other irons in the fire.
In fact, I just gave away $11,479.30 worth of eBooks through Amazon's Kindle Store in December and January — in a span of only five days of free promotion — and that grossed me a whopping fifty bucks in royalties later in January, from a few measly "Paid" book sales. Umm, hmm. That's right. I had to give away $11.5K in Kindle Editions to make $50, before taxes, after the FREE eBook giveaway. That's right, they were FREE for five days. Umm, hmm, you got the concept. I had to eat a potential loss of of almost eight thousand dollars in "missing royalties", before taxes, in order to make a few lousy bucks from a handful of readers who finally decided to risk spending money on the real McCoys.
Yessir, that's the reality of being an indie author. No wonder The New World Order no longer considers me to be a threat to them or to anyone else on this planet. The biggest threats on Earth come with the biggest price tags attached to them. That's a given — an "always was" and "always will be" kind of thing — that equates the poor with the powerless on this greedy, backward world. Which also means that only the rich will ever be powerful on this iniquitous planet.
Yessir, that's the reality of being an indie author. No wonder The New World Order no longer considers me to be a threat to them or to anyone else on this planet. The biggest threats on Earth come with the biggest price tags attached to them. That's a given — an "always was" and "always will be" kind of thing — that equates the poor with the powerless on this greedy, backward world. Which also means that only the rich will ever be powerful on this iniquitous planet.
Well, I might be an old indie dawg and a poor self-promoter but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve. So, those 2,970 free Kindle ebooks I gave away this winter might seem to be a necessary evil to other book promoters but, to me, they showed me something about people that I hoped wasn't there. But it's there and I have to face the awful truth.
Yep,one thing I learned, for sure, is that people will spend a fortune on smut and decadence and violence and vanities but, when it comes to clean entertainment and new revelations about life, they only want it if it's free.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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