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It’s been a busy two weeks lately in my life.  I just got married about a week ago.  My girl friend (now wife) had been together for about 5 years.  I have also devoted a lot of time to getting a few PPC campaigns up and running.

This is totally unrelated but, I heard today that Obama is going to be in my town on Saturday and I plan on going to see him.  Plus I will take a video of him with my new Flip video camera…  I guess I forgot to mention that I did end up purchasing one.  But anyway, hopefully I will get good seats so that the video comes out well.   I will probably host the video here and hopefully he will say something significant to make the video popular…lol.

Well, it’s just about 2am and that means off to bed.

Right now as I sit here at an L-shaped desk in a black high back chair staring into my computer screen, I am listening to, “All the lonely people – The Beatles.” Minutes ago the thought that this song relates in some strange and distant way to blogging- but then again, doesn’t everything?

All these lonely people, where do they all come from? Blogging in isolation can get fairly lonely indeed. At times you wonder if anyone is reading what you write everyday. You’re always hoping on some level that days or even months from now this information will reach someone. Yet after all of your hard work, you don’t see any sign of visitors whatsoever. What to do… Do you give up on this thing we call blogging? Or do you try something different? - Something brave, innovative, or even unusual.

Crucial thoughts

Blogging is really only writing something that you want someone else to read. How you want them to feel, think, or react is up to you…

Getting immersed in fantasy is nothing new to our society. From the time that parents told their children of far away lands and mythical imagery, we have yearned to live in another world. Most only live in this world for a short time everyday. Perhaps you read your favorite book, play an online game, or even dress in period attire and battle evil doers in an open field. Whatever it may be, all of these have at least one thing in common- escaping to that special place. A place where you can forget all of the ties that you have to this thing we call reality.

Darkon

I started thinking about all of this when I watched a documentary called Darkon on IFC. If you haven’t watched it then let me get you up to speed. In Baltimore, Washington, and I assume other parts of the world, a group of people enter a medieval world every other Sunday. Decked out in full clothing from that time period, these people speak in what sounds like old English and fight in battles with padded weaponry. To some this may seem silly, but I see something else below the surface. I see a group of people merging a fantasy world with the world we live in. At the same time, they are also living within a world that they have created. Unhealthy? – I don’t think so. How can it be unhealthy to create or explore something different?

World of Warcraft

If you have been living in a rickety old shack your entire life, only to have now come out to see the light, and by chance first read this article, then let me enlighten you. World of Warcraft is by far the most popular and played massively multi player online role-playing-game in the world. But why? The short answer is again that people need a fantasy world. In this computer driven age, it is only fitting that we use a digital medium to create our escape.

What is Reality?

How do you define the world we live in? Do you do so by explaining your job, car, or family? Is the world we call reality really just an overall observation we make from what we see? But what happens if you take away all these things you use to describe reality? Do you have anything left? At the end of this blurb, you are left with only questions and no real answers. I can’t tell you straight answer, because I really don’t know. Trying to define reality is almost the same as determining an afterlife.

Conclusion

Now that we have seen what some people do to find this fantasy in their lives, we can make a few conclusions. Even though there is a place for fantasy, there is also a place for social interaction in everyone’s life. Most of us have come to know people devoted to things such as Dungeons&Dragons, World of Warcraft, Darkon, etc… as nerds for the very reason that they seem to have largely neglected social interactions. On the other hand, people who devote their life to social interaction alone are also neglecting this need for fantasy. So it is easy to see that there is in fact a balance between the two. And I’m not saying that anyone should have to care what other people think. This is not a matter of labels, but rather just a balance.
Do you have any experience with the LARPG or MMORPG? If not, then feel free to let me know why…

In the past I used to think Criss Angel was a very talented and inventive magician. Yet, now I know that he is merely a puppet to the media and only buys his magic from very talented individuals.

When I first saw Criss Angel I was amazed at the magic he performed. I had not practiced nor had any interest in magic since I was very young, so the tricks were refreshing. After seeing these miraculous tricks, I could not watch enough of the magic he performed- I was always left wanting more. But as time went on, I became more and more interested in magic. From hours and hours of searching the net, I began to learn more and more about magic. Instead of watching Criss Angel on television, I became more interested in knowing all I could about magic.

One day as I sat on the couch, I turned to (as you might have guessed) Criss Angel. After not watching his show for a few months now, I did not know what to expect. Perhaps it was the fact that I knew how he was doing the trick. Or more importantly it could be the fact that I knew who had invented the trick in the first place. Whatever it was, as I watched the episode I was now bored and filled with disgust. I was watching him perform the trick verbatim. Even his dialogue was practically the same as the original act.
Later on I learned that he had hired the original magician as a consultant on the show. Now this got me to thinking about a few things. Primarily I was drawn towards what happens with professional singers when the run out of talent or ideas. As most of the people who live in this pop culture world called society know, singers who live directly in the spot light rarely ever right their own songs. However, they rely on song writers to come up with something catchy or something that will definitely sell.

So after comparing the two careers side by side, I now understand a simple truth. Song writers are usually song writers because they can’t sing, or are not famous enough to sell the song in the first place. Criss Angel is also following suite to this type of business. Seeing as how his consultancy is not nearly as famous as Criss Angel, it is easy to see why they were hired. The media needs a name brand to slap onto everything. Whether it be a person or a product, people have to be able to identify with a single entity when watching tv or buying a product.