Do I dig being controversial? Hell, yeah!

[Mythsaje]

My wife, half-jokingly, says that someday she expects to come home and find me vanished. I write some very scathing things about the Republicans, this administration, and the trickle-down class war the mega-rich have declared upon us mere serfs.

I also write well-reviewed futuristic urban fantasy novels. I'm the only up-and-coming author as dedicated to fighting the good fight politically as writing fiction that I know of at this point in time. Thankfully, I'm not the only liberal/progressive author saying the things that need to be said. I consider Stephen King something of a compatriot in this respect, though our fiction is quite literally worlds apart. I admit to have been compared to Mark Twain a time or too, though I am nowhere near as cynical as he appeared to be.

But if one googles my name, one comes up with not only my website, my publishers' sites, and various reviews of my books, but also some of my posts on DU and reprints on other people's blogs. Hell, if I can't be famous, at least I can be notorious.

:evilgrin:

They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. I happen to believe it, at least in some respects. So I'm controversial. I'm the kind of person the Repugs and Freeper types love to hate. Just about everything I do mocks their pretentions--from my real life to my political writing to my novels themselves. I'm a semi-agnostic pantheist married to a witch, an average guy who writes novels with monsters and mages as the heroes and religiously deluded assholes as the antagonists.

I've got a contrary streak a mile wide. Tell me I "shouldn't" do something and I'll be testing the waters before the last word leaves your lips. Will I make some enemies? Oh, perhaps. But all my life I've known people who didn't like me for one reason or another. And all too often I didn't even know why, nor did I return their animosity until they gave me ample reason. At least now those who want to hate me can have a valid excuse.

I don't ever expect to be invited to a White House dinner, even if a Democrat wins the Presidency. I'm too much of a rabble rouser with a disaste for formality for that to be a good idea. My idea of dressing up is a pair of cargo khakis and a nice sweater...if you can pry me out of my comfortable green hoody.

And a tie? :rofl: I loathe the damnable things. They're too remiscent of a leash for me to ever be comfortable wearing them.

I'm blue collar born and bred, and I'm the kind of person success would never change. A couple of years ago, on my ever-expanding quest for new experiences, my wife and I spent New Year's eve at the symphony. I like classical music... :shrug: But I felt SO out of place it was almost eerie. It felt odd to walk out to have a smoke and see a homeless fellow trudging by while men and women in suits and fur capes stood laughing and chatting as if the guy were invisible.

Not my scene at all. I'd be more comfortable at a barn dance...and I don't even LIKE country music.

My wife and I passed on the eight dollar glasses of champagne and picked up a cheap bottle at a grocery store on the way home. We toasted one another in our run-down fixer-upper home surrounding by our pack of dogs while fireworks exploded in the cold night air outside. And were more than content to do so.

It's ironic that it took nearly forty years for me to become comfortable with myself, my dreams, and my life. But that as much as anything makes me all the more dedicated to pointing out injustice and villainy in the world around me.

And you know what? Screw anyone that doesn't like it.

edited to correct a misspelling.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Seems to me what you are doing is the "American Way".

In the best sense.

[saracat]

2. And heres to you Mythsaje, one of my favorite and most literate posters!

:toast: :toast:

[Mythsaje]

3. LOL

Just noticed I missed a typo (too for two) long after the edit period had ended.

That sucks.

[warren pease]

4. Same here, although I couldn't have said it nearly as well. n/t