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The Sockfather Part 1

The Sockfather confronts a double crosser in his organization and Johnny learns an important lesson.

Bought to you by the same warped mind that brings you “A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story.”

Google Maps, Easter Eggs, TARDIS, Ohh my!

OK – so, EB and I are surfing the web and we find out that Google Maps easter egg lets you explore the TARDIS - http://tcrn.ch/17mMCaX

EB turned to me and said “What the *(&(^%$ ?”

Trying to explain TARDIS and Google Map stuff to EB. He just wasn’t getting it. He things humans are a bit crazy, traveling through space in phone booths and all.

EB: What’s a TARDIS anyway? It sounds like a person from the south saying “Tired of This.”

Me: It’s a Doctor Who thing.

EB: Who’s Dr. Who?

Me: It a British Scifi show about traveling through space in a phone booth.

EB: I need for you to explain all of this to me. I just don’t see how an Easter egg let’s you explore this thing. What do you have to do sit on the Easter Egg to make it work?

Me: No, I don’t think that’s how it works.

EB: Did you hide Easter Eggs in our book, A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story, you now the one that you keep annoying people with, saying that it is a future Pulitzer Prize Winner?

Me: Not now EB, I’m really getting tardis.

Beware of the Teeth Police – Whatever you do, Don’t Cancel!

EB and I had appointments with the dentist for our regular check ups. I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. But EB became obsessed with not going. He kept trying to convince me to cancel the appointment. I told him that would not be wise, especially the way he chomps on carrots. Neither of us had been to the dentist for awhile. He wouldn’t stop insisting on canceling our appointment. So, I finally gave in and was about to call the dentist. He was him being such a baby. I’d just about had it.

That was, until EB read Dave Eccles’ new book Darke Times. It’s an intense collection of short stories. All of a sudden, EB insisted that we not cancel our appointment. I didn’t know what got into him. He was a different rabbit. I thought he had developed a form of rabbit schizophrenia.

When I asked EB why he changed his mind about the dentist, he gave me Dave’s creepy story to read, “The Teeth Police.”  I read it and decided that EB was right. We’d better keep our appointment less we suffer the same fate as the poor fool in the story. It scared the carrots out of EB, and I had to agree that it would not be wise to upset our dentist.

We both made it out of the dentist office in one piece. Thanks to Kelly who was great. She even downloaded a free copy of A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story which is free on Amazon until end of day Saturday. We didn’t feel a thing as she worked on our teeth, and by some miracle EB had no cavities, neither did I.

Life is good.

Free Will? What if It’s Not Yours?

What if you discovered that your free will was a deception, a lie? Everything that you enjoyed, all that you thought, everything that made you unique and genuinely you, was really someone else? What if your discovery made you the target of a relentless and persistent evil, an evil so deep and encompassing that there was no place where you could hide? It wants you dead.

It’s the story of a demonic world that systematically high jacks the souls of the unsuspecting. A creepy and disturbing story which begs the question, “Where the hell is God?” This story begins where A Rabbit Tale An Easter Story ends.

Look for Persistent Evil on Amazon on November 1, 2013.

Pre-order your copy of Persistent Evil today for only $10.95 (Reg. $12.95) and your copy will be signed by the author and shipped on Nov 1.

Choose a Path of Peace

Jenn Jinks – Music to Anyone’s Ears

EB got a chance to hang out with Jenn Jinks today. She is an awesome singer and EB is one of her biggest fans. After Jenn’s regular piano player was delayed due to a severe weggie accident, EB came to the rescue and was able to accompany her at an important rehearsal. Jenn is getting ready to release an album and EB did his best to play her songs.

Overall, the rehearsal turned out great. EB was particularly taken by Jenn’s beautiful voice and also because she was dressed like a carrot in that orange dress.

When I saw him later this afternoon, he couldn’t stop telling me about how he is Jenn’s right hand rabbit. She promised him an autographed copy of her new CD and so he has official bragging rights and wants everyone to know it. EB threatened to poke my eyes out while I sleep if I didn’t post a link to Jenn’s Kickstarter campaign. She is self funding her album and he wants everyone to go and help her out. 

EB is counting on you, (for that matter so am I since I have to live with him and there’s no telling what this crazy rabbit will do) go there today and pledge whatever you can. Here is the Kickstarter link.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/419441755/jenn-jinks-original-debut-album

Unstoppable Is Unstoppable on Sept 24

Kirk Cameron’s new movie Unstoppable has got some folks’ panties in a twister. Read here about Facebook’s attempt to block fans from posting links to the movie. I’ve always admired Kirk Cameron. The guy is not afraid to live his faith wide open.  EB and I look forward to watching Kirk’s thought provoking new movie on September 24. Check out the trailer for Unstoppable.

…and so The Black Man and The Rabbit Argued

Hung out with EB and William today. (William is the one on the left.) William and I perform together at area clubs. He has written close to a hundred songs. The guy is a genius. He and EB get into philosophical discussions every so often when we are on our way to a gig and I just stay out of it. Listening to the two of them carry on about the woes of the world and the crazy hypothesis each of them come up with, is like being sucked into a vortex. My eyes glaze over and everything starts to spin.

I guess I’m a glutton for punishment. What should I expect when the Easter Bunny (that mild mannered rabbit with an occasional attitude) and William D. Burton (a performer who has opened for Muddy Waters and Crosby Stills and writes songs with lyrics like: “It was raining like a cow peeing on a flat rock and my jalopy was in the shop.”) get together to bend time and space with their dialogue?

Today was a little weird as the two of them started arguing over my book, A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story. William suggested that I change the name of the book and re-release it. EB thought that was a dumb idea. Here’s a brief glimpse of their conversation.

Burton: …yeah, you should change it to something like The Far-Fetched But True Happenings of An Accidental Rabbit or Big Ears But Blind.

EB: What the %* are you talking about, William? What kind of titles are those. Do you want the guy to starve by not selling any books? Stick to songwriting and leave book titles to the experts.

Burton: Experts? Oh, you mean like you? Of course, how silly of me. Why name the book something that people might actually be interested in reading, when you can call it A Rabbit’s Tale? – and an egotistical one at that. Unless it has “Easter” or “Rabbit” in the title, you’re just not happy are you?

EB: You can’t fight what the public wants. They want me!

Burton: Put a carrot in it, EB.

So much for enlightened dialogue. My brain started to ooze out of my ears after ten minutes of this.

Here’s the thing. While the book has references to Easter, it is about a guy who gets into some real hot water trying to help a friend. So, there is suspense and humor in it. To make matters more complicated, after the book was finished, I got the idea of how the story continues. It didn’t start out this way, but it has turned into a multi-book project, with a third book already in the works. The second book, Persistent Evil, will be released in the Fall.

While the story lines make sense from one book to the other, can the book titles for a trilogy really go from “A Rabbit’s Tale An Easter Story” to “Persistent Evil” to “The Stilling?”

Since William and EB have done nothing but make me more confused about this, perhaps you can leave me your thoughts. If you’ve read A Rabbit’s Tale, I would be very interested in your thoughts.

Peace

All you have to do is accept the gift and follow the instructions.

Favorite Gospel Quote from the New Testament

All you have to do is accept the gift and follow the instructions.