BlakeAtwood.com

“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – Will Rogers (1879-1935)

..in a real, honest-to-goodness, book no less: Religion and Technology in the 21st Century: Faith in the E-world. That link should take you to the page where I’m quoted while highlighting my name. The quote’s from an article I did way back in 2001 for Suite101, The Internet Church?.

This isn’t the first time this has happened. I posted to a message board around that time as well, and the post made it into Making Sense of Church.

Some day I won’t even have to write a book; I’ll just compile my greatest hits.

Brought to you by Outer Banks Carolina Designs Realty. For that time you’re in Carolina, looking for a rental place. Happens to me all the time.

While ego-googling, I found that I’m actually a "drop-dead handsome costar" in The Prada Paradox.

"Actress Devi Taylor is playing the role of Melanie. Devi has been in the public eye since she was a child star. But after being attacked three years ago, in her own home, by a crazed fan calling himself Janus, she has been in hiding. It has taken a lot of courage for Devi to come back into the spotlight. She takes her privacy extra seriously now. Devi’s home is like a fortress and she lets very little slip to the media. Some of the things Devi has let "slip" are false. This gives her an extra feeling of control over her private life. The only major problem with the picture is that the leading man is her ex-boyfriend, Blake Atwood.

Blake Atwood did not intentionally humiliate Devi on Letterman’s show. He knows the moment the vile words leaves his mouth that he has made a horrible mistake. That mistake costs him Devi’s affection. But Blake is determined to win Devi back, no matter what it takes. Blake just happens to be beside Devi when she gets word that she is the Target and Janus is the Assassin! Knowing that Devi has less than twenty-four hours to solve the clues and find the antidote is tearing him apart. Worse, since Andy Garrison is the Protector, Blake is not allowed to help in any way, shape, or form."

And apparently I’ve been on Letterman.

Although, in real life, I’d much rather be a Professional Golf Equipment Tester. Unfortunately, we both know I’ll never make the pro circuit. Guess I’ll have to settle for being famous without being myself.

Editors have to see what most of us don’t. There may be a gem of a good idea hidden beneath a mountain of prose. Or, there may be mellifluous words that are all sound and no fury. Either way, it’s the editor’s job to point the errant writer to the path of writeousness. (Yes, I know. I can hear the groans from here). The Evil Editor (actual identity unknown) exists to help those that can’t help themselves. He or she serves up four options for your reading pleasure:

1. Face-Lifts: Query letters for possible books are submitted to the site, posted as-is, then edited and commented upon by the Evil Editor. Often hilarious, but also helpful
1. Guess the Plot: The EE offers the titles to queried works. Readers write 25 word possible plot summaries. Quite hilarious, and fun to try.
2. New Beginnings: Authors send the first 150 words of their book to the site. Readers add what they think might comes next.
3. The Next Line: Like New Beginnings, but it’s usually an excerpt with a lot of dialogue. Readers add the next few lines.
4. Q&A: Ask the EE a question. Hope for an answer. Pray for your self-confidence.

What’s nice about the site is its wit as well as its value. There’s a method to the madness here, and it will actually help you become a better writer. At the very least, it may give you some good ideas for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

[via the Wunderfool]

[with a nod to advertising pens]

It seems the internet is actually becoming a series of tubes. YouTube has spawned imitators, two of which I’d actually peruse: GodTube, the Christian answer to the godlessness that is YouTube (he said sarcastically, sort of…) and SupportTube, a plethora of how-to videos. It’s a good thing that the internet is not a series of hoses, otherwise we’d have YouHose, GodHose, and SupportHose.

Even though I might have already posted this video, it’s good enough, in my humble estimation of Christian-themed parodies, to embed once again.

Baby Got Book

And another good one, The Evangelism Linebacker

[Post brought to you by the ever popular accounts receivable conversion. Could be a band name? That must be when an accountant becomes a Christian?]