Refrigerator Art



With the litany of vanity press, just-in-time printers like Lulu, CreateSpace, Blurb as well as the well stocked tchotchke–marketeers such as ArtsCow or CafePress … self publishing has become our new national past time.  Perhaps it’s the fault of YouTube where having our own channel makes us feel like we are in fact a reality TV star.  But I would guess that the root cause of our erroneous belief that everyone else is actually interested in the product of our creative, albeit questionable genius, stems from our early childhood conditioning.  In point, I blame the Frigidaire!

It is our parents who feigned fascination with our finger-paintings and promptly popped our pictures up on the family fridge that made us at first believe we actually had talent.  Our Mona Lisa masterpieces for all the world to see … let’s face it when we were small the kitchen seemed close to the whole world and for some of us it still is!

There are of course those stories of the self-published unknown author who later is picked up by a major publishing house and eventually makes her way onto Oprah’s Reading List … oh wait, let me take a moment to savoir that thought.  Ahhhhhhhh.  Now what was I talking about?  Oh, right…  It’s easy to get carried away by our own creative talents when the allure of Amazon.com makes it so simple to make-believe that we are the next up-and-coming of the new millennium.

Don’t get me wrong there are some amazing self-published works out on the market today.  BLESSED ARE THESE HANDS is an exploration & celebration of women’s values featuring Jean Shinoda Bolen, Z Budapest, Pat Fish, Ava Park, Diana Paxson, Susun Weed, and 55 other extraordinary women.  Check out the movie on their amazing website. And the genre is vast with entrepreneurs who donate part of their proceeds to Breast Cancer Research and patent devices that will help save our natural resources even Graphic Novels are finding their way to the self-publishing paradigm.

See, I’m five paragraphs into my soap box saga and I haven’t even mentioned yet MY NEW NOVEL!  Or that you can buy In The Lila at Amazon.com or download it today for kindle or watch the first chapter FREE on YouTube!!!  Yes, I take refrigerator art to a whole new high-tech level.

With Facebook Fan pages anyone can feel like they have a target audience.  Which is fine.  I mean no harm done right?  No one is going to quit their day job.  Ok, I don’t have a job this is pretty much my life in a nutshell – only small pun intended.  And Daniel – YOU NEED TO GET BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL NEXT YEAR AND GO TO COLLEGE because despite how AWESOME your band of the hour is and all of the compliments we lavishly throw your way everyday telling you how amazing and talented you are …. you may not be the next all time low even if you are all that.  Just sayin’ enjoy what you do … ultimately it is ALL refrigerator art.

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