A grab bag of questionable ideas! (1/42)
It's another installment of "When Ubiquitous Capture Goes Too Far."
The following items are from the document where I keep my ideas for this newsletter. None of these will ever be full posts; a few are real head-scratchers. What was I thinking? Your guess is as good as mine!
"Let's rebrand mysteries as fake crime!"
With the popularity of true crime surging, I sometimes worry that fictional detective stories are becoming obsolete. I think it's time to rebrand mysteries as "fake crime" and cash in on the trend. This is obviously a genius idea; someone should give me a million dollars.
"I love reading 1-star reviews for self-help books."
This is true, though I wonder why I bothered putting it in the idea file. I do enjoy those bad reviews, and I always read them first. It's nice to know whether a 300-page book should have been a 6-paragraph blog post (ouch) or whether the author is completely out of touch and problematic (yikes). I've dropped a couple of these 1-star reviews myself, primarily as warnings for other readers. Sometimes I disregard the reviews and read the book anyway, but knowing what I'm getting into is always a good idea.
"Telephones"
That's it. That's all the note said. It didn't even have punctuation to guide me, so whether this was meant to be a query or a simple declaration, I doubt I'll ever know. Maybe I was interrupted when typing it in, and the rest of the thought was lost forever. I have no idea what this was about.
"Why are people always fighting on catwalks in movies? It doesn't seem prudent."
This one is self-explanatory. It definitely doesn't seem prudent, though I don't know how I could have gotten a whole newsletter out of the statement.
"Olivia Benson Ain't Nuthing ta Fuck Wit"
Another head-scratcher! I don't understand anything about this. Okay, I'm pretty sure this was about the TV detective, not Taylor Swift's cat. That's a start, at least. I mean, the character isn't someone to fuck with, but why I thought Wu-Tang Clan needed to be involved? No clue.
"Pseudo-intellectual word salad"
This one is less of an idea and more of a description of what I do here. Never mind!
I mentioned last time that I would come up with a goal to keep pushing these bad boys into your inbox. I don't have it in me to make up for lost time (sorry), so I intend to send this newsletter 42 times over the remainder of 2023. Forty-two just sounds nice, it's pretty close to the number of weeks remaining this year, and you know, Douglas Addams fans will be into it or whatever. Will I end up burning through 3 to 5 posts over the final week of the year? The Magic 8 Ball says, "It is decidedly so." But hey, itβs something to aim for!
Sooooo good π‘π₯π‘π₯π‘
(Insert pic of Fake Crimes over Fred's Mystery Machine Logo here)
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