(by Pete Lopez. Read his blog Road to Absolute Zero.)
The original ploy was to have them rescuing the universe from certain  doom, but that’s ordinary behavior for supermodels.  They’re always  using their powers responsibly, so I decided it would be far more  shocking for them to have wicked intentions.  It would be a major  headline if they were caught terrorizing parentless children in an  unclothed manner.  If that doesn’t steal your attention, I am pretty  confident you have no soul.
Isn’t a scandalous cover far more important than the merit of the book?   Let’s say I am offering two articles in the emergency waiting room.   One with the above name and another called "A Tutorial on Title  Writing.”  Except for a few comatose, I’m sure the patients would favor a  story about attractive woman displaying public indecency while  torturing unfortunate minors.  The opposing read appears to be a dull  grammar lesson and even though it may have more overall benefit, it  could never carry the concentration of a knife wound victim.  
Anyway, from this point on there will be nothing further about bare  arsenic models.  I could hypothetically compose a situation about a  rambunctious gang of lingerie models that became intoxicated while  skinny dipping in a public fountain and later decided to purchase a  canister of lighter fluid at Home Depot, but that concept is ridiculous.   Supermodels never have to buy anything.  
Nevertheless, the purpose of the title was simply to lure an audience  into reading this.  My idea was to first capture the attention of  readers and then worry about the consequences of providing irrelevant  material inside.  The hardest part of a sale is getting the customer in  the door.  Once the prey succumbs to the bait, the advantage swings  towards the salesman or in this case, the essayist.
By this point of the juncture, I must consider anyone remaining as  comfortably inside the door with your jacket off and feet up or held  hostage.  Since it’s impossible to reclaim the valuable time lost, you  might as well ride this out to the conclusion. Opening this was when  things went astray and that can’t be reversed.  My advice is to read  this off as a loss and recoup your wasted time later by multitasking or  driving above the speed limit.
Besides, I suggest making the best out of any circumstance.  Spin this  into a lesson about not falling for the catchy label.  Sometimes things  wrapped in shiny package are cosmetically covering an interior decay.   Maybe searching for a diamond amongst the rough or giving the ugly  duckling a chance to develop can prove more rewarding.  And if you have  the capability, please remember to donate blood a few times a year,  volunteer to help those in need, send your grandmother flowers Mother’s  day too, visit the dentist twice a year………..
Wait, wait hold up and let me dismount off my high horse.  I wish I  could claim that the previous paragraph was sincere and composed from  the bottom of my heart.  I genuinely want to help make the world a  better place and people to be impressed by my nobleness, but alas that  was not the intention for this deceit.  I am merely a writer who’s is  fueling his desire for publicity with exaggerations, lies and moronic  morals.   Perhaps instead of being a pompous blowhard, I could write  honestly about my uneventful day of laundry, a stubbed toe and store  brand pretzels, but if an essay is written and nobody ever reads it, was  it ever written at all?

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