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The Not-so-Terrible Number Is..

The giveaway window has closed, and the final tally is….

6,053!

That’s right, kids, The Bellman Chronicles is now in the hands of thousands of people and I can only hope the momentum carries through to sales and reviews. But that’s the future; for now, there are some people I need to thank…

  • Jo Bryant: Your blog is called Chronicles of Illusions, but you’re a true friend, young lady! I can never thank you enough.
  • Claire Ridgway: Your article on Interviews with Indie Authors is responsible for most of my success. Of course, Jo Bryant led me to you, so she gets some more credit, as well! Seriously, follow Claire’s formula if you can and you’ll see the results.
  • SnicksList.com: Worth a look, folks… Trust me!
  • Pixel of Ink
  • http://addictedtoebooks.com/free
  • Twitter was essential as well. If you had tole me a year ago, that I’d send out over a hundred “tweets” in one day, I’d have asked you if you were drunk…
  • FreeBookDude.com
  • Holly Adair at http://fmbblogtours.blogspot.ca/
  • There are dozens of others and I’ll get to everyone soon – I promise! For now, I just want to say thanks to everyone. I have the best friends in the cyberverse.

JUST SO YOU DON’T THINK I’VE GONE TOTALLY SOFT…

“I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina,” Lady Gaga in a a 2010 Vanity Fair interview.

Yeah, it’s an old quote, but I just heard it! And besides, there’s no statue of limitations on stupid…

TIME FOR OTHER BUSINESS..

A shout-out to my newest blog buddy, Kristen Lamb and her best-selling tome, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. Give it a try, folks. You won’t be disappointed…

And now… My first Blog Hop!

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#154: The Cult of Celebrity!

Just read the following and we’ll talk in a minute, okay?

Angelina (I swear I didn’t make out with my brother!) Jolie’s leg has spawned its own Twitter account.

Seriously.

The social media feed, dubbed “Angie’s Right Leg” had more than 12,000 followers by noon Monday. At the 84th Academy Awards, Jolie sported two amazing accessories: a glamorous black dress featuring a split by the right leg, and a punch-drunk Brad Pit. I use the term “punch-drunk” because I still can’t believe Pitt hasn’t woke up and realized he’s hooked-up with a nut case in the body of a demigoddess.

I’ve always assumed the sex was amazing, but come on! Pitt has obviously been drinking from the same batch of Kool-Aid as Jolie’s followers, one of whom was misguided enough to begin focusing his worship on individual parts of her anatomy.

Of course. it could have been a woman who started this whole mess; Jolie isn’t too particular when it comes to sexual partners, is she?

But I digress.

“Angie” accentuated her gorgeous leg while presenting the award for best adapted screenplay. A quick Google search reveals at least four more occasions throughout the night where she repeated the action. One of the winners of the adapted screenplay category, “The Descendants” co-writer Jim Rash, mocked the pose while accepting his award.

The joke was on him, and all bloggers, for that matter; The Hook’s Twitter account has less than 60 followers!

Most of what Jolie’s leg has to say is fairly simple-minded. Sample tweets include “I’m a leg!” and “Look at the leg!

I have nothing further; my brain has begun to melt.

#19: When Your Bridge To The Information Superhighway Gets Washed Out!

Yes, the title is a mouthful, but it makes you shudder when it really hits you, right?

Just play your daily routine through your head. Now revisit it, but remove any access to the web whatsoever. Are you sweating yet?

Sure, there are millions of people who actually use the internet as part of their work routine; it has become the cornerstone of our global economy. But for most of us it has overthrown television as the recreational outlet of choice.

  • Twitter allows us to share every mundane aspect of our lives.
  • We can play financial Russian roulette by banking electronically.
  • We plan our meals, vacations and even buy movie tickets over the web.
  • Some use it to find a mate.
  • Some use it because they don’t have a mate… and probably never will.
  • You can completely shed your identity – and if you prefer, gender – and embark on a quest of medieval lands.
  • Video games have never felt so real.
  • Access to news, incorrect weather forecasts and celebrity gossip/sex tapes has never been so immediate.

I’ve only overlooked/missed about a million other uses, but I’ve saved the best for last. From the same college minds that brought you keggers, electronic note sharing and rohypnol, comes the modern wonder known as Facebook!

Now you can reconnect with old friends you barely had any use for way back when, relatives you can’t stand, and even acquaintances like your insurance guy’s half-cousin’s wife! You can run a farm from your living room. Or if you prefer, you can hurl virtual sheep at your loved ones. Facebook has more than 800 million “active users”.

This term kills me. How can someone who sits on their ass for hours at a time be considered “active”?

Nonetheless, I have to concede Facebook’s superiority as a social networking platform and a way for Mark Zuckerberg to actually get laid. It has become an integral part of the daily routine of millions – 800 million and growing to be precise.

Of course, crack has become an integral part of millions of lives as well, but that’s neither here nor there. My point is this: could we survive the loss of the web as a part of global economy and infrastructure? I really don’t know.

But could we survive the loss of the web to our personal ecosystem? Not without a lot of screaming, cursing and self-evaluation.

So whatever you do, run that virus check daily.

#45: The Lure of Cyberspace…

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Blackberrys, iPads, laptops, PCs, and even cyber cafes, they all serve what has become an essential function in modern society.

They allow us to hurl virtual livestock at complete strangers with no legal consequences.

Twitter exists to allow mammals with opposable thumbs to share the most miniscule portions of their day with one another. Facebook exists to bridge the geographical gap between humans, but mostly it’s used to share the most trivial details of our lives.

And so women scorned can share their fury with the world. Seriously, I’d hate to be a teenage boy in this modern era of virtual relationships. I mean relationships that unfold over the web, not couplings that exist only on the web, that’s a whole other modern convention that baffles me.

I doubt anyone could have predicted just how dominant a role the internet would play in our lives when it first began to be utilized on a grand scale. Nonetheless, certain visionaries acted quickly, and now we have dozens of geeky billionaires whose creations shape our lives while they slurp champagne from the navels of high-priced hookers!

I’m assuming that’s what they do with their fortunes.

The fact remains, we’ve become wholly dependent on our virtual sustenance to sustain our physiological well-being. I’ve seen people physically melt down when they’re unable to access the web, nit just kids, and not just those whose livelihoods are dependent on the ‘net, but people from all walks of life.

We check our e-mail during dates. We take our laptops on vacation. We even order our groceries online, thus denying our bodies the fresh oxygen and sunlight.

The web is our master and we serve more than willingly.

Christmas Comes Early For Jon Stewart!

Jon Stewart

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Jon Stewart and his kind, (Political commentators, not Jews!) are as  giddy as schoolgirls these days.

And it’s all thanks to a REAL weiner.

Of course, I’m referring to Rep. Anthony Weiner‘s “sexless” sex scandal and the fallout that has proven to be a windfall for political pundits everywhere. Why, Rush Limbaugh was gorging himself on the whole mess on his syndicated radio program yesterday.

I swear you could actually hear him getting fatter.

The moral of this story is obvious: if your last name is Weiner, don’t go into politics and get hooked on internet flirting and soft-core porn.

This particular scandal has massive staying power thanks to a last name.

And I know there’s a joke in there somewhere, but I’m not going for it.

Bree Olson + Twitter= Soft Core Social Media Porn!

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“Terrible Disclaimer”: This post has some pretty bawdy language, but these particular words are necessary to illustrate how a social media site can become a soft, or hard, (depending on your viewpoint) core destination.

Twitter was created in 2006 to allow users to communicate short bursts of information with a large group. Bree Olson was also created in 2006 to allow Rachel Marie Oberlin to fulfill her lifelong dream of communicating with large groups through short bursts of carnal activity.


Twitter now services an estimated 190 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day. Bree Olson hasn’t serviced that many users, but her current and most famous one, Charlie Sheen, has raised her global profile immeasurably.

Just as Sheen has used his current public meltdown to attract Twitter followers (In record numbers!), Olson is using her account to reach her expanded audience. I doubt, however, that Twitter’s creators were anticipating tweets like this when they unleashed their social media creation into cyberspace.

I love getting an ass massage. A fresh out of the shower, lay on the bed tummy down butt rub… Mmm put it in. 10:10 PM Mar 16th

Since her upgrade to one of Charlie’s “Goddesses”, Oberlin has retired her Bree Olson persona, according to Sheen that is. She later said to a reporter from the Journal Gazzette that she was indeed retired from porn, “As long as I’m with Charlie. But be sure you put that in there though. ‘As long as I’m with Charlie, I am retired.”

Check out a few of these Bree Olson tweets, available for viewing by anyone, regardless of age, and decide for yourself if they were written by a retired porn star who is uninterested in maintaining her fan base.

So I’m not supposed to twitter about ****, *****, ***, ******* creampies gang bangs dildos porn or me being a slut… Shit, I just did. about 13 hours ago March 23

Mmmmm I am so horny. Can’t wait to get ****** again, and again, and again… And hmmm again. My panties have been wet all day. 10:25 PM Feb 25th

In bed, white t-shirt & nothing else. Legs spread and ***** ready to be penetrated. Would love to be full of *** so I can have sweet dreams. 3:02 AM Feb 26th

What’s  more painful than anal sex? Not getting to have any anal sex. Would someone come **** me in the ass please? 4:00 AM Feb 23rd

Wish I was a cheap $20 hooker laying in this bed and one guy after another would come in this room and *** inside me while I just lay here. 7:54 PM Feb 17th

Mmmm tired. I wanna go to a hot sunny place and sleep on the beach then wake up to getting raped by a stranger on the beach. That’s my dream 7:32 PM Feb 10th

Let’s face it, these tweets were written by a young lady who suspects, as we all do, that the Charlie Sheen Gravy train she’s on is bound to go off the rails sooner or later. If that happens, Bree Olson will need something, or more accurately, someone to fall back on!

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Living A Porn Star’s Dream: Bree Olson Breaks Into The Mainstream World.

Once again, Charlie Sheen has grabbed the media spotlight by filing suit against Warner Bros. for $100 million! But enough about Charlie for a minute; let’s take a look at a certain blond, perky member of his entourage with a penchant for having sex in front of hairy Teamsters with video equipment!

To set the record straight- Charlie and I are doing great and we are very happy. Nat is a doll too. All is well :) less than 10 seconds ago  – March 7

That was a tweet from one of Charlie Sheen’s “Goddesses”, in response to the brief media firestorm that erupted last Saturday when Sheen tweeted that she had left him, supposedly for good. Further proof that the Sheen train wreck is spreading it’s wreckage everywhere!

They say any headline is good as long as they spell your name right. And if you’re a porn star trying to break into the world of mainstream entertainment, any headline with the name Charlie Sheen in it is worth its weight in gold.

Until recently the name Bree Olson was only familiar to those who watched her “films”, and most of them wouldn’t freely admit being a fan. Now the 24-year-old Texas native-born is basking in the warm glow of Sheen’s thermonuclear image meltdown.

She is sometimes referred to by her given name Rachel Marie Oberlin, but that name doesn’t elicit the response, “Bree Olson, Porn Star” does, so the media uses it sparingly when covering this whole sordid mess.

Besides, though he claims she’s retired from the porn game, Charlie can’t deny it was Bree Olson that first caught his….eye, not little Rachel Oberlin. It’s the old male fantasy of having the angel in the kitchen and the porn star in the bedroom, literally. Just look at some of her “porn credentials”,

  • 2007 Adultcon Top 20 Adult Actresses
  • 2008 AVN Award – Best New Starlet
  • 2008 AVN Award – Best Anal Sex Scene (Video) – Big Wet Asses 10
  • 2008 XRCO Award – Cream Dream
  • 2009 AVN Award – Best New Web Starlet – BreeOlson.com
  • 2009 Twisty’s Treat of the Year
  • 2010 AVN Award – Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene – The 8th Day

Her absence from Charlie’s circle has been noticeable, but she had a good reason. Namely, trying to keep herself out of jail!

Olson was arrested Feb. 3, after she crashed her Lexus and struck a light pole while in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she reportedly owns a home. Her breathalyzer results were questionable and she was handcuffed after refusing to cooperate. Unfortunately for Bree, the cuffs weren’t her usual brand and the officer refused to spank her! You can get the whole story here.

One could argue she hasn’t made any money from Sheen up to this point but she’s living rent-free in his “Sober Valley Lodge”, and availing herself of all the creature comforts that entails. No matter what the final outcome of this whole media circus, it’s Bree Olson who will be able to parlay all the media attention into financial benefit.

In fact, footage of Olson appears in Not Charlie Sheen’s House Of Whores XXX (Porn titles are anything but subtle, aren’t they?), that features porn stars that have partied with Sheen in the past.

In another twist to this whole mess, PETA has grabbed some of the Sheen spotlight by honoring Bree for her vegan diet. Insert the obligatory joke about her enjoying sausage if you like, but I’m actually getting burnt out by all this “Sheen Madness.”

Rachel/Bree was conspicuously quiet during Jeff (I swear I still have my journalistic integrity!) Rossen’s Dateline Sheen Lovefest and he called her on it, but Sugar Daddy Charlie interjected and simply referred to her as the “Observer”.

I’d have to agree with that – she’s biding her time and is barely mentioning Sheen in her tweets, “It amazes me that so many complete strangers are so vicious towards me right now. I didn’t hurt anyone, so stop hurting me.” 3:28 AM Mar 2nd,  or one of my favorites, “For everyone calling me a slut or a whore….. Um DUH!!!!!! lol any new news?!” 5:00 PM Mar 3rd.

Her tweets bounce back and forth from clean and boring to porn star naughty, so consider yourself warned. I sincerely hope I’m wrong, but I’m willing to bet that sooner or later, the other shoe will drop and you’ll see Bree Olson, not Rachel Oberlin, benefit from all the strange happenings at Sober Valley Lodge.

Who knows, she may end up supporting Charlie now that he’s unemployed!

Either way, she’s made her mark, scrawled in tiger blood, on popular culture. She’ll forever be known as “Rachel Oberlin, a.k.a porn star Bree Olson and one of Charlie Sheen’s Goddesses”.

We Can’t Get Enough Lindsay Lohan, Can We?

Let’s face it, if Lindsay and Charlie teamed up they could produce enough material to start their own speciality channel focused solely on new reports of their drunken exploits.

Of course, it would have to carry an “adults only” rating, but the possibilities appear to be endless. As long as the public remains insatiable for news on these fallen idols.

And the public doesn’t appear to be full yet.

Just look at Lohan’s court appearance this week: she received as much attention for her fashion choices as she did for the fact she pulled a Winona Ryder in a jewelery store!        Lindsay Lohan

By the way, Lohan is now considering a plea deal, despite having entered a not guilty plea. Her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley (I hope this lawyer works cheap!) tells CNN: “Ms. Lohan maintains her innocence, and now that I’ve seen the police reports, I believe the case is entirely defensible. Having said that, we will entertain a discussion concerning a plea if it means no jail so that she can move forward with her recovery and her career.”

Lohan is due back in court on Feb. 23, although I’m sure she’ll stay in the spotlight until then by engaging in low-key activities like talking walks in public, sending messages to her fans via social networks or robbing a liquor store!

Meanwhile, ABC reports that Lohan commented on the much talked-about white, $575 Kimberly Ovitz dress she wore to court Wednesday on Twitter, saying:  

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“i would never steal, in case people are wondering. I was not raised to lie, cheat, or steal. … also, what i wear to court shouldnt be front page news. it’s just absurd.”

And the dress has sold out at every online boutique that carries Ovitz’s designs. Maybe that’s how Lohan is going to pay her legal fees?

Lindsay  did note a tweet she received from Dr. Drew. He wrote:

I am mortified how @Lindsaylohan is getting attacked when she is so fragile and just establishing her sobriety. Not at all what she needs

And she thanked him, adding “I appreciate it.”

Dr. Drew doesn’t have enough fame and fortune theses days? Now he has to jump on this soon-to-derail publicity gravy train?

Not that I can blame him, I’ve devoted a lot of blog space to LiLo myself. You just can’t look away – who knows what you’ll miss?