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Hey DOB, huge fan here. As my favorite source of Presidential opinions, how do you feel about Trump being first in the republican rankings right now? What do you think that says about our country, because I can't think of anything positive about the situat

Thanks for the kind words and a fine question.

[NOTE: There is a huge chance that Trump doesn’t actually intend to run for president and is only posturing for one of two reasons: 1) To curry favor in the republican party by creating an out-of-touch and too-far-right bigot that OTHER candidates can stand against to seem MODERATE, MODERN and LEVEL-HEADED by comparison, thus sneaking the GOP into the present. 2) Free media coverage for several months. 

For the purposes of this particular Tumblr ask, I’m going to ignore this and pretend that Trump is ACTUALLY running for president in earnest. {Even though I am legit certain that he isn’t.}]

I see where you’re coming from. It’s easy to read a bunch of headlines saying that Trump is leading in polls and feel just devastated, or confused, or bummed about the state of our country, but you can put away those concerns, because Trump’s apparent surge in popularity isn’t a symptom of our country falling into a giant pit of stupid, it’s more a symptom of “the way the media works.” If you have a minute, I’d love to talk to you about polls. 

A fine thing to do is always always always ask “where are these polls coming from?” The news will tell you that Trump is gaining momentum in “the polls,” but “the polls” could mean whatever the media wants it to mean. For example, Trump is leading the polls among people who are, historically, unlikely to vote; the kind of people who will, in a poll, say that they are more likely to vote for Trump, are the kind of people who are making their decisions because of Trump’s name recognition, or because they want to be ironic or snarky. The Republican base, meanwhile– the group that any potential republican candidate NEEDS to even come close to winning an election– does not support Trump.

For whatever the polls say, Trump doesn’t have a strong base among tea-partiers, or the religious right, or– and this is important which is why I’m saying it again– any other single existing Republican base. In a poll of people who don’t pay attention to politics and don’t vote, Trump is in the lead, but in a poll of voting republicans, Jeb Bush is, hands down. One of those groups might actually make a president, but one of those groups makes a more exciting story, so guess which one the media will cover?

If you want a soundbite to ease your worried mind, “Trump is trending well amongst misinformed people who will likely not vote in the next election.” 

It leads to polls that seem contradictory; Trump is the leading candidate amongst “people who take polls,” but in a separate study focusing on who would win in an actual presidential election, Trump falls short. This is because Trump’s poll victories are based on name recognition and an overabundance of media coverage that makes it SEEM like he’s on fire right now. At the end of the day, there is not a large enough group of people not just in the Republican party but in America that would support Donald Trump. There just isn’t. Here is a handy little chart that explains things. Trump has a lot of media coverage, and Trump has a whole lot of people googling “Trump + President,” but there are no reasonable polls suggesting that he will actually win his party’s nomination.

Trump is a non-issue. Once you understand that, the question becomes “Then why are we being fed this false story that makes it seem like Trump could actually be president one day?” Great question! It leads us to the OTHER thing you need to remember about polls, politics and the media. “Election Season” is Black Friday to a lot of news outlets. Without question, more people pay more attention to more news outlets during an election than at any other time in any other year. Remember that CNN and FoxNews and all of the other news outlets aren’t just independent satellites reporting the news out of the kindness of their hearts, they’re owned by corporations and they are broadcast on television, which means they live and die by ratings (because having a lot of viewers means you can charge more for commercials, which means you can make more money, and ta-da, that’s how the world goes). This means that it is more beneficial to a news outlet to make an election seem INTERESTING than it is to report it authentically. No one will watch a 24 Hour News Channel covering a landslide election, but they WILL watch a 24 Hours News Channel covering a horse race. If you turned on your TV and your news anchor of choice said “Donald Trump claims he’s running for president but has absolutely no chance so ignore everything he says for the next several months,” would you keep watching? Of course you wouldn’t. But if your news anchor said “Donald Trump is GAINING IN THE POLLS and TELLING IT LIKE IT IS,” you’d keep watching because suddenly it’s a soap opera. Even if you HATED Trump, you’d watch out of that perverse impulse that makes us watch things we hate. Hell, it’s got you riled up enough that you sent me a message asking about Trump’s chances. You’re invested because the media wants you to be.

SO, it behooves CNN and Fox and HuffPo and everyone else who relies on ratings (or traffic) to make it seem like every election is a horse race that will go down to a photo finish. If CNN came out and said “Trump is running but statistically has no chance of winning his party’s nomination let alone the presidency and, in fact, [X candidate] is the only candidate who COULD conceivably win, unless some huge scandal happens,” well, then, no one would have any incentive to keep watching election coverage, right? So these networks need to convince you that every single election is a slobberknocker, an all-out brawl against two worthy competitors. That is the narrative that will always make the most sense for these companies. Even if it isn’t true, it’s smarter for the networks to behave as if the presidency could swing either way, any minute.

So what YOU can do, is find out where the polls are coming from, whose taking the polls, and who benefits the most from the polls singing a particular song.  Rarely do the polls exist to inform the voting public, which means they exist to serve some OTHER purpose. And if the polls aren’t helping you become a more informed voter, a) why would you listen to them and b) whose narrative ARE they serving?

Hey DOB, huge fan here. As my favorite source of Presidential opinions, how do you feel about Trump being first in the republican rankings right now? What do you think that says about our country, because I can't think of anything positive about the situat

Thanks for the kind words and a fine question.

[NOTE: There is a huge chance that Trump doesn’t actually intend to run for president and is only posturing for one of two reasons: 1) To curry favor in the republican party by creating an out-of-touch and too-far-right bigot that OTHER candidates can stand against to seem MODERATE, MODERN and LEVEL-HEADED by comparison, thus sneaking the GOP into the present. 2) Free media coverage for several months. 

For the purposes of this particular Tumblr ask, I’m going to ignore this and pretend that Trump is ACTUALLY running for president in earnest. {Even though I am legit certain that he isn’t.}]

I see where you’re coming from. It’s easy to read a bunch of headlines saying that Trump is leading in polls and feel just devastated, or confused, or bummed about the state of our country, but you can put away those concerns, because Trump’s apparent surge in popularity isn’t a symptom of our country falling into a giant pit of stupid, it’s more a symptom of “the way the media works.” If you have a minute, I’d love to talk to you about polls. 

A fine thing to do is always always always ask “where are these polls coming from?” The news will tell you that Trump is gaining momentum in “the polls,” but “the polls” could mean whatever the media wants it to mean. For example, Trump is leading the polls among people who are, historically, unlikely to vote; the kind of people who will, in a poll, say that they are more likely to vote for Trump, are the kind of people who are making their decisions because of Trump’s name recognition, or because they want to be ironic or snarky. The Republican base, meanwhile– the group that any potential republican candidate NEEDS to even come close to winning an election– does not support Trump.

For whatever the polls say, Trump doesn’t have a strong base among tea-partiers, or the religious right, or– and this is important which is why I’m saying it again– any other single existing Republican base. In a poll of people who don’t pay attention to politics and don’t vote, Trump is in the lead, but in a poll of voting republicans, Jeb Bush is, hands down. One of those groups might actually make a president, but one of those groups makes a more exciting story, so guess which one the media will cover?

If you want a soundbite to ease your worried mind, “Trump is trending well amongst misinformed people who will likely not vote in the next election.” 

It leads to polls that seem contradictory; Trump is the leading candidate amongst “people who take polls,” but in a separate study focusing on who would win in an actual presidential election, Trump falls short. This is because Trump’s poll victories are based on name recognition and an overabundance of media coverage that makes it SEEM like he’s on fire right now. At the end of the day, there is not a large enough group of people not just in the Republican party but in America that would support Donald Trump. There just isn’t. Here is a handy little chart that explains things. Trump has a lot of media coverage, and Trump has a whole lot of people googling “Trump + President,” but there are no reasonable polls suggesting that he will actually win his party’s nomination.

Trump is a non-issue. Once you understand that, the question becomes “Then why are we being fed this false story that makes it seem like Trump could actually be president one day?” Great question! It leads us to the OTHER thing you need to remember about polls, politics and the media. “Election Season” is Black Friday to a lot of news outlets. Without question, more people pay more attention to more news outlets during an election than at any other time in any other year. Remember that CNN and FoxNews and all of the other news outlets aren’t just independent satellites reporting the news out of the kindness of their hearts, they’re owned by corporations and they are broadcast on television, which means they live and die by ratings (because having a lot of viewers means you can charge more for commercials, which means you can make more money, and ta-da, that’s how the world goes). This means that it is more beneficial to a news outlet to make an election seem INTERESTING than it is to report it authentically. No one will watch a 24 Hour News Channel covering a landslide election, but they WILL watch a 24 Hours News Channel covering a horse race. If you turned on your TV and your news anchor of choice said “Donald Trump claims he’s running for president but has absolutely no chance so ignore everything he says for the next several months,” would you keep watching? Of course you wouldn’t. But if your news anchor said “Donald Trump is GAINING IN THE POLLS and TELLING IT LIKE IT IS,” you’d keep watching because suddenly it’s a soap opera. Even if you HATED Trump, you’d watch out of that perverse impulse that makes us watch things we hate. Hell, it’s got you riled up enough that you sent me a message asking about Trump’s chances. You’re invested because the media wants you to be.

SO, it behooves CNN and Fox and HuffPo and everyone else who relies on ratings (or traffic) to make it seem like every election is a horse race that will go down to a photo finish. If CNN came out and said “Trump is running but statistically has no chance of winning his party’s nomination let alone the presidency and, in fact, [X candidate] is the only candidate who COULD conceivably win, unless some huge scandal happens,” well, then, no one would have any incentive to keep watching election coverage, right? So these networks need to convince you that every single election is a slobberknocker, an all-out brawl against two worthy competitors. That is the narrative that will always make the most sense for these companies. Even if it isn’t true, it’s smarter for the networks to behave as if the presidency could swing either way, any minute.

So what YOU can do, is find out where the polls are coming from, whose taking the polls, and who benefits the most from the polls singing a particular song.  Rarely do the polls exist to inform the voting public, which means they exist to serve some OTHER purpose. And if the polls aren’t helping you become a more informed voter, a) why would you listen to them and b) whose narrative ARE they serving?

Hey DOB, huge fan here. As my favorite source of Presidential opinions, how do you feel about Trump being first in the republican rankings right now? What do you think that says about our country, because I can't think of anything positive about the situat

Thanks for the kind words and a fine question.

[NOTE: There is a huge chance that Trump doesn’t actually intend to run for president and is only posturing for one of two reasons: 1) To curry favor in the republican party by creating an out-of-touch and too-far-right bigot that OTHER candidates can stand against to seem MODERATE, MODERN and LEVEL-HEADED by comparison, thus sneaking the GOP into the present. 2) Free media coverage for several months. 

For the purposes of this particular Tumblr ask, I’m going to ignore this and pretend that Trump is ACTUALLY running for president in earnest. {Even though I am legit certain that he isn’t.}]

I see where you’re coming from. It’s easy to read a bunch of headlines saying that Trump is leading in polls and feel just devastated, or confused, or bummed about the state of our country, but you can put away those concerns, because Trump’s apparent surge in popularity isn’t a symptom of our country falling into a giant pit of stupid, it’s more a symptom of “the way the media works.” If you have a minute, I’d love to talk to you about polls. 

A fine thing to do is always always always ask “where are these polls coming from?” The news will tell you that Trump is gaining momentum in “the polls,” but “the polls” could mean whatever the media wants it to mean. For example, Trump is leading the polls among people who are, historically, unlikely to vote; the kind of people who will, in a poll, say that they are more likely to vote for Trump, are the kind of people who are making their decisions because of Trump’s name recognition, or because they want to be ironic or snarky. The Republican base, meanwhile– the group that any potential republican candidate NEEDS to even come close to winning an election– does not support Trump.

For whatever the polls say, Trump doesn’t have a strong base among tea-partiers, or the religious right, or– and this is important which is why I’m saying it again– any other single existing Republican base. In a poll of people who don’t pay attention to politics and don’t vote, Trump is in the lead, but in a poll of voting republicans, Jeb Bush is, hands down. One of those groups might actually make a president, but one of those groups makes a more exciting story, so guess which one the media will cover?

If you want a soundbite to ease your worried mind, “Trump is trending well amongst misinformed people who will likely not vote in the next election.” 

It leads to polls that seem contradictory; Trump is the leading candidate amongst “people who take polls,” but in a separate study focusing on who would win in an actual presidential election, Trump falls short. This is because Trump’s poll victories are based on name recognition and an overabundance of media coverage that makes it SEEM like he’s on fire right now. At the end of the day, there is not a large enough group of people not just in the Republican party but in America that would support Donald Trump. There just isn’t. Here is a handy little chart that explains things. Trump has a lot of media coverage, and Trump has a whole lot of people googling “Trump + President,” but there are no reasonable polls suggesting that he will actually win his party’s nomination.

Trump is a non-issue. Once you understand that, the question becomes “Then why are we being fed this false story that makes it seem like Trump could actually be president one day?” Great question! It leads us to the OTHER thing you need to remember about polls, politics and the media. “Election Season” is Black Friday to a lot of news outlets. Without question, more people pay more attention to more news outlets during an election than at any other time in any other year. Remember that CNN and FoxNews and all of the other news outlets aren’t just independent satellites reporting the news out of the kindness of their hearts, they’re owned by corporations and they are broadcast on television, which means they live and die by ratings (because having a lot of viewers means you can charge more for commercials, which means you can make more money, and ta-da, that’s how the world goes). This means that it is more beneficial to a news outlet to make an election seem INTERESTING than it is to report it authentically. No one will watch a 24 Hour News Channel covering a landslide election, but they WILL watch a 24 Hours News Channel covering a horse race. If you turned on your TV and your news anchor of choice said “Donald Trump claims he’s running for president but has absolutely no chance so ignore everything he says for the next several months,” would you keep watching? Of course you wouldn’t. But if your news anchor said “Donald Trump is GAINING IN THE POLLS and TELLING IT LIKE IT IS,” you’d keep watching because suddenly it’s a soap opera. Even if you HATED Trump, you’d watch out of that perverse impulse that makes us watch things we hate. Hell, it’s got you riled up enough that you sent me a message asking about Trump’s chances. You’re invested because the media wants you to be.

SO, it behooves CNN and Fox and HuffPo and everyone else who relies on ratings (or traffic) to make it seem like every election is a horse race that will go down to a photo finish. If CNN came out and said “Trump is running but statistically has no chance of winning his party’s nomination let alone the presidency and, in fact, [X candidate] is the only candidate who COULD conceivably win, unless some huge scandal happens,” well, then, no one would have any incentive to keep watching election coverage, right? So these networks need to convince you that every single election is a slobberknocker, an all-out brawl against two worthy competitors. That is the narrative that will always make the most sense for these companies. Even if it isn’t true, it’s smarter for the networks to behave as if the presidency could swing either way, any minute.

So what YOU can do, is find out where the polls are coming from, whose taking the polls, and who benefits the most from the polls singing a particular song.  Rarely do the polls exist to inform the voting public, which means they exist to serve some OTHER purpose. And if the polls aren’t helping you become a more informed voter, a) why would you listen to them and b) whose narrative ARE they serving?

Hey DOB, huge fan here. As my favorite source of Presidential opinions, how do you feel about Trump being first in the republican rankings right now? What do you think that says about our country, because I can't think of anything positive about the situat

Thanks for the kind words and a fine question.

[NOTE: There is a huge chance that Trump doesn’t actually intend to run for president and is only posturing for one of two reasons: 1) To curry favor in the republican party by creating an out-of-touch and too-far-right bigot that OTHER candidates can stand against to seem MODERATE, MODERN and LEVEL-HEADED by comparison, thus sneaking the GOP into the present. 2) Free media coverage for several months. 

For the purposes of this particular Tumblr ask, I’m going to ignore this and pretend that Trump is ACTUALLY running for president in earnest. {Even though I am legit certain that he isn’t.}]

I see where you’re coming from. It’s easy to read a bunch of headlines saying that Trump is leading in polls and feel just devastated, or confused, or bummed about the state of our country, but you can put away those concerns, because Trump’s apparent surge in popularity isn’t a symptom of our country falling into a giant pit of stupid, it’s more a symptom of “the way the media works.” If you have a minute, I’d love to talk to you about polls. 

A fine thing to do is always always always ask “where are these polls coming from?” The news will tell you that Trump is gaining momentum in “the polls,” but “the polls” could mean whatever the media wants it to mean. For example, Trump is leading the polls among people who are, historically, unlikely to vote; the kind of people who will, in a poll, say that they are more likely to vote for Trump, are the kind of people who are making their decisions because of Trump’s name recognition, or because they want to be ironic or snarky. The Republican base, meanwhile– the group that any potential republican candidate NEEDS to even come close to winning an election– does not support Trump.

For whatever the polls say, Trump doesn’t have a strong base among tea-partiers, or the religious right, or– and this is important which is why I’m saying it again– any other single existing Republican base. In a poll of people who don’t pay attention to politics and don’t vote, Trump is in the lead, but in a poll of voting republicans, Jeb Bush is, hands down. One of those groups might actually make a president, but one of those groups makes a more exciting story, so guess which one the media will cover?

If you want a soundbite to ease your worried mind, “Trump is trending well amongst misinformed people who will likely not vote in the next election.” 

It leads to polls that seem contradictory; Trump is the leading candidate amongst “people who take polls,” but in a separate study focusing on who would win in an actual presidential election, Trump falls short. This is because Trump’s poll victories are based on name recognition and an overabundance of media coverage that makes it SEEM like he’s on fire right now. At the end of the day, there is not a large enough group of people not just in the Republican party but in America that would support Donald Trump. There just isn’t. Here is a handy little chart that explains things. Trump has a lot of media coverage, and Trump has a whole lot of people googling “Trump + President,” but there are no reasonable polls suggesting that he will actually win his party’s nomination.

Trump is a non-issue. Once you understand that, the question becomes “Then why are we being fed this false story that makes it seem like Trump could actually be president one day?” Great question! It leads us to the OTHER thing you need to remember about polls, politics and the media. “Election Season” is Black Friday to a lot of news outlets. Without question, more people pay more attention to more news outlets during an election than at any other time in any other year. Remember that CNN and FoxNews and all of the other news outlets aren’t just independent satellites reporting the news out of the kindness of their hearts, they’re owned by corporations and they are broadcast on television, which means they live and die by ratings (because having a lot of viewers means you can charge more for commercials, which means you can make more money, and ta-da, that’s how the world goes). This means that it is more beneficial to a news outlet to make an election seem INTERESTING than it is to report it authentically. No one will watch a 24 Hour News Channel covering a landslide election, but they WILL watch a 24 Hours News Channel covering a horse race. If you turned on your TV and your news anchor of choice said “Donald Trump claims he’s running for president but has absolutely no chance so ignore everything he says for the next several months,” would you keep watching? Of course you wouldn’t. But if your news anchor said “Donald Trump is GAINING IN THE POLLS and TELLING IT LIKE IT IS,” you’d keep watching because suddenly it’s a soap opera. Even if you HATED Trump, you’d watch out of that perverse impulse that makes us watch things we hate. Hell, it’s got you riled up enough that you sent me a message asking about Trump’s chances. You’re invested because the media wants you to be.

SO, it behooves CNN and Fox and HuffPo and everyone else who relies on ratings (or traffic) to make it seem like every election is a horse race that will go down to a photo finish. If CNN came out and said “Trump is running but statistically has no chance of winning his party’s nomination let alone the presidency and, in fact, [X candidate] is the only candidate who COULD conceivably win, unless some huge scandal happens,” well, then, no one would have any incentive to keep watching election coverage, right? So these networks need to convince you that every single election is a slobberknocker, an all-out brawl against two worthy competitors. That is the narrative that will always make the most sense for these companies. Even if it isn’t true, it’s smarter for the networks to behave as if the presidency could swing either way, any minute.

So what YOU can do, is find out where the polls are coming from, whose taking the polls, and who benefits the most from the polls singing a particular song.  Rarely do the polls exist to inform the voting public, which means they exist to serve some OTHER purpose. And if the polls aren’t helping you become a more informed voter, a) why would you listen to them and b) whose narrative ARE they serving?

I was watching some OPCD and I noticed Noel Wells edited them! I love her! I didn't know she did Cracked stuff!

Noel edited and wrote and performed for Cracked for years. To give credit where credit’s due, Cody Johnston is the one who years ago said “I found this amazing person that I think we should work with.” We agreed.

Noel is that word that I don’t use a lot because I worry every time you use it incorrectly it loses meaning and people stop caring, so I only use it when I really actually believe it, here, now, in the present; she’s an artist. Maybe even an Artist with a capital A. She’s fearlessly creative and original in a way that I can’t understand, the kind of artist where the smartest thing you can do as her supporter is move out of the way and let her create whatever she wants and make sure nothing is distracting her. She edited the first few seasons of OPCD, because she’s a phenomenal editor and made every single god damn script funnier than it was on the page or in the room, but mostly we had her editing so we could always maintain ties with her, because we wanted to be around whenever Noel had an idea (the Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl series is one of my favorite things we’ve run, and it was all born out of Noel’s head). We wanted any bit of anything she had, because that’s what you do when you find an Artist capital A. You give them money and you keep them around other creative people and you give them a place to make the stuff they want to make.

When Saturday Night Live picked her up I thought “Wow, after all these years, SNL still knows what they’re doing, that’s amazing.” And then when they let her get out of their grasp after a year I thought “False alarm. You idiots are going to feel fucking silly five years from now when Noel is the only name that matters in comedy.” 

It’s just a special feeling you get. Sometimes you can watch someone hilarious and you KNOW that they’re hilarious, but you can see all of the… “strings,” I guess I’ll call it. Not puppet strings, but the strings and wires they use in movies during fight scenes that make people fly impossibly. Once in a while when I’m watching a great comedian/writer/performer, I can see the strings, the things I’m not supposed to see– and that most people don’t see– where the strings are the influencers and sources of inspiration and history and familiar blueprints. 

And SOMETIMES, very rarely, you can watch someone and no matter how hard you look, you can’t see the strings. Because there are no strings, because they’re completely and utterly original and singular and that, to me, will always be Noel. 

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Sorry I can’t do any more work today I’m too busy thinking about the horse that was born with a horse on it

more like #squadfoals amirite??

this post is too perfect I have to leave tumblr forever now

hey so i met a guy at my job and we're like together now and one of common interests we have is reading cracked and like watching ocpd/the like and just i feel like i should thank you cause you're great and make good things happen in people's lives.

That’s great to hear! In accordance with state law, I now own fifteen percent of your relationship. You are of course welcome to buy my shares out (at tremendous personal cost, obviously), but in the meantime I look forward to being a part of all of the major decision-making processes that are in our collective future re: this relationship. Please fax copies of both of your birth certificates and medical records to my assistant Soren Bowie and he’ll get the paperwork started. Additionally, I can’t wait to see what you two cook up for next quarter’s All-Hands meeting, wherein you will present your five year plan to me and the rest of the board. An accompanying powerpoint presentation is not necessary but strongly encouraged. Please send whatever slides you have to Soren Bowie at least 24 hours prior to the meeting.

It goes without saying that, should you ever have a child, it will be named Daniel or another name deemed suitable by me (likely either “Lesser Daniel” or “Hamcat”).

Yours in Christ,

-Big Daniel

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cracked:

We watched a totally normal Cosby Show episode! Nothing odd about it!

Cracked Responds: Bill Cosby and the BBQ Sauce Episode

If you look closely at 2:13, you can spot the moment where Miki and I legitimately can’t even make eye contact with each other! Because we’re both so uncomfortable! Because life is dark and terrible, sometimes!

wgladstone:wgladstone:wgladstone:My second novel comes out...

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My second novel comes out this month and my copies just arrived in the mail!!!

Check out my site for a blurb, a trailer, a free first chapter, and where to order it. It’s about love lost, sanity regained and challenged, and, of course, the omnipresent effects of the Internet Apocalypse. Gladstone and Tobey are back. So are Jeeves and Rowsdower. And some other returning and new characters that should surprise you as battle lines are drawn for the final fight for the Net.

www.Internet-Apocalypse.com

Fair warning. The sex in this book is not as hot, so if you’re a dirty little pervert then make sure you have Book 1 too, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Six Days Away!

The Internet Apocalypse Trilogy has been a major part of my life for years now. Book 1 and Book 2 are completely different in style and tone, but both will tell you my thoughts on the role of technology, good and evil, love, and our place in the world. Plus dick jokes.

At the end of the day, aside from my children, it is the only thing I would point to in the world to indicate who I am, and why my life was worth living. That might seem dramatic, but that’s what I believe, and if you have been a fan of anything I’ve done, I think it’s worth your time and money. I greatly appreciate your support.

Writing books is the best torture therapy. Support it! You can all become enablers, TODAY!

South on Highland: A Novel: Liana Maeby

South on Highland: A Novel: Liana Maeby:

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HOLY GODDAMN, MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!

Buy this book, everybody! Liana is funnier than me.