{"id":15460,"date":"2012-09-12T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2012-09-12T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:47:19","slug":"pitch-promo-publicize-and-pimp-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/09\/12\/pitch-promo-publicize-and-pimp-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch, Promo, Publicize, And Pimp For Others Right Here, Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, the Circus of Pimpage is open.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal, though —<\/p>\n

You can’t pimp yourself.<\/p>\n

At all.<\/p>\n

So put that out of your fool head.<\/p>\n

You should try to convince us to check out something by someone else. A book, a film, a YouTube video, a comic, a transmedia sex experience, an undead pterodactyl ride through Satan’s Palace, whatever<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You should pimp one thing, and one thing only.<\/p>\n

It can be by a friend or someone you’ve never met.<\/p>\n

Long as it’s not you pimping your own thing.<\/p>\n

To be clear, you pimping your own thing will summon the Comment Deletion Robots, who will laser your face off. Or, at least, your comment. Because they’re mean like that. Hey, I didn’t program them.<\/p>\n

THEY PROGRAMMED THEMSELVES.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I’ll pimp something right here, right now —<\/p>\n

I’m reading Seven Wonders<\/strong>, by my pal Adam Christopher.<\/p>\n

It’s a comic book in novel form — it is both an homage to early-age comic books and a subversion of them at the same time (many of the “heroes” are kinda dicks).<\/p>\n

Ever read the comic book Astro City<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Think that, but in novel form.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the book at Adam’s site<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. And, of course, procure it.<\/p>\n

Now, the rest of you — get thee to the pimpery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, the Circus of Pimpage is open. Here’s the deal, though — You can’t pimp yourself. At all. So put that out of your fool head. You should try to convince us to check out something by someone else. A book, a film, a YouTube video, a comic, a transmedia sex experience, an undead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-41m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}