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Laughter Is The Cheapest Medicine! Edition #88 — December 5, 2006 First off, I'm happy to announce a major price hike for Silly Office Screensaver. What began as a whimsical distraction to amuse myself has turned into a pretty cool little screensaver. I've since discovered that selling it for $1.11 is, well...kinda silly. The fact is that I can't afford to pay my own exorbitantly high rates as a designer, developer, webdudemeister, sharp-minded, half-witty individual at that price. So I've given myself a little raise in keeping with the minimum wage and all... As of the very second that you read this, Silly Office Screensaver will now officially be extremely under-priced at only **$6.00**. Please, calm down. Catch your breath. I can only imagine the thud of flabby office butts falling out of their chairs, otherwise tense jaws slackening, bloodshot eyes widening, calloused hearts throbbing and desert eyes welling up with tears, but yes — it's true. Six lousy bucks will get you a pretty cool little screen saving product by yours truly, me! Okay, maybe I haven't gotten over the spirit of giving yet, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to send everyone on my mailing list (120 billion subscribers at last count) a free copy of SOS. But wait, don't start blubbering and thanking me yet. There's a catch. It's a timed version. But still, if you go to a restaurant, you'll get a meal that lasts only for about half an hour which you'll pay out of your bunghole for, plus a tip. What I'm going to do is give you a full working version of Silly Office Screensaver that will last until, hmmmm...let me think now... Okay! let's make it January 5, 2007. If you've fallen in love with it by that time, then buy it from me via my newly designed gift shop [a work in progress]. If you don't like it, then spit it out, but don't stick it under your chair or leave it on the sidewalk for the sneakered masses to step on. So expect another email from me, Roland What's His Name, via the Get Real Newsletter at realitycheckers.com. It will have a link included along with a password with which you can access the download area. If you feel like it, you can pass this link on to your buddies. I don't mind, since it'll get the word out. I don't know what that word is, but it'll get out. I'd like to make 3 million people laugh by Christmas. That'd be fun. There's the word: FUN! Oh, And Congratulations, Stephane Dion! All you Canadians on my mailing list will have heard by now, if you didn't watch the convention last weekend, that the new Liberal Party of Canada Alpha male and top Snoop Doggie Dog is Stephane Dion. A rather unimposing cabinet minister in charge of the environmental portfolio, he was clearly the underdog. He seemed more like some anonymous civilian running against the rich, high profile industrialists, which is how I would stereotype most candidates these days. One wouldn't suspect Dion of coming out a winner. Guys like that usually get pushed out of line by the same big, arrogant thugs who often run our countries and the rest of us into the ground [like our Conservative boys are doing now]. But here's a guy who didn't badger and bully his way to the top. Just for that he deserves to become our next prime minister. And if we don't catch him playing "Who's Your Führer!" with underaged male pages, then we may have a shot at seeing some long-overdue progress. This victory felt different, pivotal almost, as with the recent Democratic victory of the US midterm elections. I am therefore expecting as many good things from Canadian politics over the next few years as I do from the Democratic uprising in the USA. It seems that lies, corruption, racism and religious hypocrisy aren't what the people want after all. Who knows, maybe someday soon, reality will prevail again. And I'll be there.
Happy Holidays to those of you who can manage "happy." :) For the rest of us, let's just hope for eternal peace, an end to poverty and all conflicts, and... All the best, "Who's Your Führer!" is a line I borrowed from my friend and former bandmate, Randy O. I'm building his band's website and you can have a peek at it here http://www.efire.ca Subscribe to free newsletter
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