A Twist of Things to Come

My "Why We Love Reid" video just passed 7,000 hits on YouTube, and has two video responses. (Which means, I think, that the girl is posting her video as video responses to popular videos in the same theme. Which means, this clunky thing I barely cobbled together while learning Movie Maker has become fairly popular.)

Now, I know it's not super popular or anything, but it gets steady traffic, with bumps every Thursday as people surf the web for Criminal Minds related vids.

*strokes nonexistent goatee*

I think that means that fast-and-dirty fandom-related videos might help generate traffic to my website.

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I'm getting really close to launching the thing. Tell you guys all about it once I get over the Zombie thing this weekend. Kid's parents are calling about the details, and Big Boy keeps passing them off to me. I get that he's a bit shy sometimes, but this zombie thing is not my baby. I hope this doesn't become one of those things, you know, where mom takes over and does all the work. He will need help keeping the kiddies in line, I'm sure, but this is HIS project.

Oy. It'll be fine. Just have to get through to this time tomorrow, and I'm golden.

In an odd coincidence, most of my novel chapters have titles that come from songs I like. This began partway through the first draft, and I always figured eventually I'd find lyrics or song titles that fit every chapter. (Mind you, this is the first story I've ever done where I even imagined having chapter titles, so I guess it is meant to be.)

For the first chapter of the re-write, I was drawing a blank. The setting has a lot to do with a magic show/mentalist act, and an illusion called "The Lady or the Tiger" is significant for a couple of reasons. So that was the title I slapped on it. Of course, a perceptive critter pointed out how cliche it was, and rightly so. But I figured I'd let it go for now.

THEN this morning, what to my wondering ears should appear, but this song (You Are What You Love by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins) which I have loved for a long time, but had not heard in a while. (More of their awesomeness available from their MySpace Page. )

And *BLING!* There it was, big as life. ("No Great Illusion" that is.) I love it when a plan comes together.