Honestly… Having spent the whole day with the word "fucktard" running through my brain like a Will Smith song, although less depressing, because of googling Christwire to find out whether it’s it’s a piss-take or not which led me to this I then ended up acting like one by grabbing the wrong keys as I ran out to buy some beer before a mate came over to eat takeaway and drink with me. A quick inspection would have made it very clear that these are not keys to my flat at all, just as a moment’s thought would have led me to the conclusion that Phil NEVER turns up without beer and wine or some combination of the two – let’s not even talk about the fact for genetic reasons he’s usually late to things and it’s pretty cold at this time of the year to be outside without a coat or phone and drinking beer on my doorstep because there’s nothing else I could do when he could turn up at any time in the next 45 minutes.
I must admit that I would have been surprised if someone had looked into my future and told me that just after my 30th birthday I’d be in a hoodie and drinking tinnies on some street corner! Clearly I didn’t do enough of it as a teenager. Two beers later and said booze-laden man arrives, firstly looking suspicious at the loitering white-trash criminal, then laughing a bit, but nothing like as much as the spectacular and unsurprising level of sympathy I got from my fiancee when I used his phone to call her. The girl’s got a wonderfully evil cackle at the best of times, give her a few beers beforehand and it really is something to behold. Fortunately at that point I knew we could head to the pub and there we stayed, shivering until I got the chance to inhale a burger and chips and reflecting that if I’d not suggested a change of venue solely for the purposes of not spending thirty quid in the pub, I’d have not ended up fucking cold and thirty quid down anyway.
And I still don’t know if Christwire is serious or not. I’d assume it’s a clever piss-take, but what it was saying about Michelle Obama just looked a bit racist in a not-really-funny way. Help anyone?
A problem with satirising the religious right is that they can be so ignorant, backward and barking mad crazy it’s hard to tell where the genuine beliefs stop and the satire begins.
That said, I think Christwire just manages to be a little bit too OTT to be real, at least I’d be very surprised if it were not satire. The other thing that makes me suspect it is satire is that the alleged founder, “Rev. Jack Gould”, can’t be successfully googled except in connection to the site, and I imagine most preachers media-savvy enough to run such a site would have a suitably egotistic, self-aggrandising website of their own.
Ok, that’s reassuring! Cheers
A problem with satirising the religious right is that they can be so ignorant, backward and barking mad crazy it’s hard to tell where the genuine beliefs stop and the satire begins.
That said, I think Christwire just manages to be a little bit too OTT to be real, at least I’d be very surprised if it were not satire. The other thing that makes me suspect it is satire is that the alleged founder, “Rev. Jack Gould”, can’t be successfully googled except in connection to the site, and I imagine most preachers media-savvy enough to run such a site would have a suitably egotistic, self-aggrandising website of their own.
Ok, that’s reassuring! Cheers
;0) jealousy might yet colour my opinion…. every book needs a bad review from some crazy on the net, right?
;0) jealousy might yet colour my opinion…. every book needs a bad review from some crazy on the net, right?
Maybe, but I need to remember what the hell the point of the scene was…
Maybe, but I need to remember what the hell the point of the scene was…
Fair nuff – I think it would take a lot for me to ever consider doing a series longer than Twilight Reign certainly, but one key thing I’m glad about is Gollancz forced me to decide in advance how long it was going to be and repeatedly told me to keep to that. I know massive success gives you the freedom to do whatever you want, but pressure’s a good thing so I hope I never have a publisher hold back their comments because of my level of success – success lets you ignore them maybe, but not stop them from speaking in the first place.
Would love to be offering free ebooks of book 1 anyway actually, but Orion company policy precludes it. Sending them to reviewers though, might be possible.
Fair nuff – I think it would take a lot for me to ever consider doing a series longer than Twilight Reign certainly, but one key thing I’m glad about is Gollancz forced me to decide in advance how long it was going to be and repeatedly told me to keep to that. I know massive success gives you the freedom to do whatever you want, but pressure’s a good thing so I hope I never have a publisher hold back their comments because of my level of success – success lets you ignore them maybe, but not stop them from speaking in the first place.
Would love to be offering free ebooks of book 1 anyway actually, but Orion company policy precludes it. Sending them to reviewers though, might be possible.