Bryan W. Alaspa 1Please allow me to indulge
October 12th 2009 13:23
I understand that this blog has become a very political blog as of late. That was intended to be the case, of course. I had been writing articles here and there expressing my political views on things for some time, and felt that maybe starting a blog might be the best way to really vent on an almost daily basis. Writing these blogs is not the only thing I do for a living, of course, I also write for other venues and, most importantly to me, I also write books.
So, I hope you will pardon me by doing something I tell people who start blogs that they should never do. You should never, if you are blogging for your business, make your blog a direct commercial for your company or services. If you have a special offer going on at your company, maybe you can talk about that, but you should never turn your blog into an obvious commercial. So, kiddies, this is truly an example of do what I say and not what I do because I am about to violate what is, essentially, rule number one of running and writing a successful blog.
See, I just wrote a book and it just came out and I wanted to take a moment to talk about it. I like this book and I am proud of it, and if you indulge me this one blog entry where I talk about it, I promise to get back to ranting and raving like the liberal loon that I am tomorrow.
The book is called “Forgotten Tales of Illinois” and you can enter that in the search engine at Amazon.com and buy a copy right now. The book is by History Press and, quite frankly, they have been so great to me from the beginning that I just had to give them a plug. If you write non-fiction, look them up too and maybe give them a call. They will treat you right.
The book is a collection of odd tales, strange events, strange places, strange people and interesting tidbits about the state that I grew up in. Sure, Illinois is a very flat and, ultimately, dull place, but it is also my home and I love it as much as I like to complain about it.
Did you know there was a guy called the “Mad Gasser of Mattoon?” Yeah, a guy who was stalking around the small Illinois town and spraying some unknown gas into people’s homes. Did you know about Kaskaskia, a town that was on the way to being a boom-town before the waters of the Mississippi changed it and turned it into almost an island and washed most of it away? Did you know there was a huge airship disaster in downtown Chicago several decades before the Hindenberg?
Well, you can read about all of that in my little book. Again, just go to Amazon.com and search “Alaspa” or for the book by title, which is, “Forgotten Tales of Illinois.” I thank you, the publisher thanks you, my parents thank you and I am sure the rest of the liberal world would thank you too if they weren’t so busy being elitist and anti-capitalistic.
Thanks again and we shall return to our regularly scheduled program tomorrow.
So, I hope you will pardon me by doing something I tell people who start blogs that they should never do. You should never, if you are blogging for your business, make your blog a direct commercial for your company or services. If you have a special offer going on at your company, maybe you can talk about that, but you should never turn your blog into an obvious commercial. So, kiddies, this is truly an example of do what I say and not what I do because I am about to violate what is, essentially, rule number one of running and writing a successful blog.
See, I just wrote a book and it just came out and I wanted to take a moment to talk about it. I like this book and I am proud of it, and if you indulge me this one blog entry where I talk about it, I promise to get back to ranting and raving like the liberal loon that I am tomorrow.
The book is called “Forgotten Tales of Illinois” and you can enter that in the search engine at Amazon.com and buy a copy right now. The book is by History Press and, quite frankly, they have been so great to me from the beginning that I just had to give them a plug. If you write non-fiction, look them up too and maybe give them a call. They will treat you right.
The book is a collection of odd tales, strange events, strange places, strange people and interesting tidbits about the state that I grew up in. Sure, Illinois is a very flat and, ultimately, dull place, but it is also my home and I love it as much as I like to complain about it.
Did you know there was a guy called the “Mad Gasser of Mattoon?” Yeah, a guy who was stalking around the small Illinois town and spraying some unknown gas into people’s homes. Did you know about Kaskaskia, a town that was on the way to being a boom-town before the waters of the Mississippi changed it and turned it into almost an island and washed most of it away? Did you know there was a huge airship disaster in downtown Chicago several decades before the Hindenberg?
Well, you can read about all of that in my little book. Again, just go to Amazon.com and search “Alaspa” or for the book by title, which is, “Forgotten Tales of Illinois.” I thank you, the publisher thanks you, my parents thank you and I am sure the rest of the liberal world would thank you too if they weren’t so busy being elitist and anti-capitalistic.
Thanks again and we shall return to our regularly scheduled program tomorrow.
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