Blog Love Omega Glee: Wrestling With Antiquity (4 September 2012)

If it's Tuesday, we must be in Egypt. During the semester, Jake's History Of Civilization I class speeds through thousands upon thousands of years of human existence, gradually slowing down until it stops at the Enlightenment where History Of Civilization II picks up. Already, Jake's having trouble keeping up, wrestling with long-forgotten concepts and never known names, but fortunately he knows enough about the history of wrestling that he can sound reasonably astute when discussing antiquity, though his students are probably already starting to wonder why there's so little wrestling in their textbook and so much in their lectures and discussions.

After the last question by the last student after class (and not many stay to ask a question since most are exhausted from a long day of work followed by an evening class and in a hurry to get home or to the bar or to wherever it is they have or want to go), Jake packs up his books and looks around at the high school classroom he teaches in. There's a world map on the wall, amidst the flyers for the blood drive and homecoming dance. He might have been a student in this classroom once himself, but he can't remember for sure since all the classrooms without bunsen burners or other specialized equipment in a high school tend to blend together in memory into one uberclassroom. Jake looks at the world map and thinks that through all the years (not really that many, but to people as young as Jake, shorter distances appear longer) he's only managed to travel from sitting at one of the smaller desks to sitting at the larger desk in the same room. The rest of the world has, for the most part, been untouched by him.

But not by the rest of humanity. Jake looks at the smooshed, flattened globe on the wall and thinks about how the story of humanity can be viewed as one long wrestling match, of good and evil, of life and death, of scared little mammal and the rest of nature, of civilization and wilderness, and, of course, as is often the case, of human versus human.

Now were we at the main event or is this yet another undercard match in the long march of history?

In the beginning, wrestling matches were had for religious rituals, funeral processions, elections of a new chief, ritual combats, mating ceremonies, and, as always, just because people were bored and decided to take out their frustrations with the universe on one another.

Or take out their frustrations with one another on the universe.

The Egyptians built monuments that have lasted for millennia. But they're still dead, and even those monuments will eventually crumble into dust if humanity doesn't nuke them first in an evolutionary hissyfit.

But in some ways, the Egyptians and all the other early civilizations and protocivilizations are still alive through their descendants: Us.

So that's a victory. Humanity is the champion. A survivor (and given the way other species keep disappearing, perhaps eventually the only one) in the brutal no holds barred contest known as planetary existence.

But perhaps we get defeat out of victory and having triumphed over our environment, we discover that we need it to sustain us, but it's too late as we've overfished, overfucked, overdrilled, overate, overdrank, overshat, overshot, overheated, overcooled, overused, overran, and overovered it to death, and along with it us.

Jake sighs. Well, the good news is his part of the course ends with the Enlightenment so things end happily. He'll leave contemporary problems to whoever teaches History Of Civilization II.

Ernest Hemingway once said something to the effect that all stories, if told long enough, end in death. Jake imagines history works the same way, so he cuts his thoughts short and heads home, pretending that day will never come, as we always do.

And it always does.

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel.

Blog Love Omega Glee: Why Do They Call It "Labor Day" When Everyone Has The Day Off? (3 September 2012)

Propped by pillow and elevated by elbow, Francine lies on the couch flipping through television channels with the remote control waved as a magic wand controlling a scrying screen.

Click! A himbo appears, being interviewed by a drooling androgynous pale television personality. Apparently, the himbo is someone we're supposed to care about because of his genetically and plastically modified looks, which have made him resemble a hunkier and taller version of whichever screen idol made your mother's panties wet. The himbo is famous for being famous and was on a reality show or two, but now has some sort of ambiguous Hollywood career involving modeling, acting, singing, political fundraising, and doing extremely long lines of cocaine off floating blow-up dolls at pool parties. The drooling media maven asks the himbo what he thinks of Labor Day and the himbo says, "I don't understand why it's called Labor Day when everyone has the day off work. My personal assistant wanted the day off and I told him 'It's Labor Day, bitch, that means you work.'"

Francine clicks to the next channel before she can hear any more idiocy. She wonders if stupid role models are produced by oligarchical design to encourage people to act stupidly and not participate in a democracy.

On the next channel, Dick gives a presidential stump speech in a right to work state about how he's a friend of working families, and urges the audience to support his elimination of taxes for the rich since that will stimulate the economy and create more jobs for working families to work. He also adds that eliminating child labor laws will give the opportunity to all the members of working families to work.

Click!

Pro wrestling is on the next channel. From her time with Jake, Francine recognizes one of the wrestlers as The Plumper Plumber, but she doesn't know who he's whipping with a snake (or drain auger for those of you who confuse steel ropes used to unclog drains with reptiles that live in a hole in the yard and like to eat mice).

Masani comes downstairs sniffling in her robe. Her hair looks like it is trying to separate itself from the rest of her body.

Francine looks at her and says, "Rough night?"

"Ha!" Masani says, and plops down in the old yellow chair, "I wish, Sugar. No, Donald's sleeping in his room. He was up late. He probably was reorganizing his comic book collection for the millionth time. I've caught some damn cold. I couldn't catch it when I could use a sick day. I have to catch it on a day I'd have off anyway."

"That stinks."

"Yeah," Masani says, looking at the television where the Plumber has just dumped a bucket of vile green liquid over the head of his opponent, "What are you watching? Wrestling?"

"No, I was just flipping through the channels."

Masani smiles, "Are you getting back together with Jake?"

Francine wonders why they call it love when it's not lovely.

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel.

The Wred Fright Library

Writing by Wred Fright!

Here's a bibliography of some of the writing I've done. Some of the links go straight to the writing; others will tell you how to get a hold of it (usually for the printed works).

Fiction

"What I Did On My Summer Vacation In Hell" is a short story about skunks, squirrels, and The Stench (2011 by way of 2001).

Blog Love Omega Glee is my latest novel, about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart (2008-2010). It is available now as an ebook for free (sort of, you can make a donation if you like it).

The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is a humorous novel about life in a garage band that I first published as a serialized zine in 2002-2003. Then it was available as an ebook on the old WredFright.Com Website from 2003-2005. Now it is available as a book! (2006, ULA Press/Out Your Backdoor).

Underground Literary Adventures is a literary blog that Pat King and I once edited for the Underground Literary Alliance. You can find a few works by me there including the short story "Cancer" (a slightly revised version of "Cancer" was later published in the 2009 issue of Inscape, the Ursuline College fine arts magazine) (2005).

"Weekendless" is a short story starring my longtime character Harold Grumblebunny in which he passes a pleasant afternoon in the park contemplating the best way to drop out of the human race, published in the literary anthology The Bukowski Hangover Project by Poison Candy/Sisyphus Press (2003, out of print now but the link might have information on how to still obtain a copy).

"The New Kid Has An Old Bicycle", is a short story starring another of my longtime characters, Bill Falcon, in which he gets his first bicycle and tries to make some friends in his new neighborhood, published in the literary anthology Punch & Pie by Gorsky Press (2003, link has purchasing information). In Verbicide #9 Jackson Ellis wrote: "Wred Fright creates another highlight of Punch & Pie with the sad coming-of-age tale, 'The New Kid Has An Old Bicycle.' It'll definitely bring back some sketchy memories of anyone who was a shy social misfit as a child who did stupid things to impress the 'cool kids.'"

"A Sentence Of Grace" is a Harold Grumblebunny short story in which he finds religion and deals drugs with a preacher, published in The Slush Pile 2 by the Underground Literary Alliance (2002, link should have ordering information).

Comics

The Thirsty Bear & The Hungry Snake is a photographic comic strip I occasionally make starring a teddy bear and a snake sock puppet. Over the years, I've published cartoons with them in Gestalt & Pepper and as a minicomic for Genghis Con, among other places, and you can find one right here on the blog (2008-present).

"The Top Secret Origin Of Astronaut Urine Gorilla" (2002) can be found in Fightin' Fun Comics #2. AUG is one of my favorite superheroes, and you can find another story of his by me (albeit prose only), "The Return Of The Mullet Maguires", on Underground Literary Adventures (2004).

Poetry

"Ode To Twitter" is a poem published in the 2010 edition of Inscape, the Ursuline College fine arts magazine (2010).

"SanFran PanHand Sort-Of-Sonnet" is a poem published in the Homeless issue (#3) of San Francisco zine Xploited (2009).

"Weedwhacking Eden" appeared on the Underground Literary Alliance Poetry and Fiction Blog (2007).

"Ironic Occupations" is a poem published by Mark Sonnenfeld as part of his Marymark Press Give-Out Sheet Series (please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Mark at 45-08 Old Millstone Drive, East Windsor, NJ 08520 USA) (2007).

"What Is The Best Time Of Year To Die In?" is a poem published in the 2007 edition of Inscape, the Ursuline College fine arts magazine (2007).

"Kittendrowner" is a popular poem. It's been published by Red Fez and Underground Literary Adventures (2007).

"Return To E-Sender" was published in The Red Fez (2006).

"When We Were Terrorists" was published in the special 2006 issue of The Whirligig (2006).

Numerous other poems can be found on this very blog such as "2008 Third Party Presidential Candidates Sonnet".


Essays/Journalism/Nonfiction

Xerography Debt is a zine that reviews other zines. I wrote a column in #26 called "What Was the First Zine?" (2010).

Underground Literary Reviews was a blog that reviewed independent literature, run by the Underground Literary Alliance. I wrote a couple reviews for it:

"You Just Can't Find Good Help These Days: A Review of Bad Attitude by Leopold McGinnis" (2007).

"Ohio Is A Strange Place: A Review of Crossing Decembers: A Novel by John Booth" (2007).

"The Ten Commandments For Touring Literati" appeared as a guestblog for LDP Distro (2007).

"The Quest For The Great Canadian Novel: An Interview With Game Quest Author Leopold McGinnis" appeared in Go Metric 21 (2006).

"Home Therapy For Professional Wrestling Fans" appeared in Go Metric 20 (2005).

Numerous other essays and whatnot can be found on this very blog such as this popular post about whether or not Ernest Hemingway really wrote a six word short story.

Scholarship

The Journal Of Popular Culture published a couple of book reviews by me (2009).

Books And Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of New American Reading includes an entry by me on zines. Read it at your local library (unless you have $400.00 to spare) (2008)!

"How Can 575 Comic Books Weigh Under An Ounce?: Comic Book Collecting In The Digital Age" is a paper I presented at the national Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, which was later revised and published in The Journal Of Electronic Publishing (2008).

From Zines To Ezines: Electronic Publishing And The Literary Underground (623KB PDF) is the doctoral dissertation of my not so secret identity, reprinted on ZineBook.Com but you can also order a bound print copy from Proquest (2001).

"The Psychological Motivations Of The Zine Publisher" is adapted from my master's thesis (1996).

"The History And Characteristics Of Zines" is an excerpt from my master's thesis (1995).

Scribbles and Other Miscellany

Postcards from Pottersville: An Anthology of Art and Literature Volume 3 Adventures in the Underground edited by Jack Saunders has an interview with me in it, and contributions from Jack, Blaster Al Ackerman, Ron Androla, Michael Basinski, John Bennett, Bill Blackolive, Pat King, Steve Kostecke, Lyn Lifshin, Leopold McGinnis, Jeff Potter, and more (2007, Pottersville Press).

How Do You Say "Zine" In Portuguese?

I actually have no idea how one says "zine" in Portuguese, but I bet Douglas of UGRA, "a Brazilian non-profit project focused on producing, researching and promoting radical and alternative cultures", does since he's just translated a portion of my master's thesis, Personality On Parade: A Psychoanalytic Analysis Of The Zine Revolution into Portuguese here and here. For those of us who can't read Portuguese, you'll have to stick with this bit of the thesis from Zinebook.Com. And those of you who can't read either English or Portuguese I don't have to worry about because you won't be reading this.

About Wred

Wred Fright is the pen/stage name of one of the many thousands of blokes named "Fred Wright" wandering around our world today. This one primarily potters around Ohio and Pennsylvania in the USA but occasionally has been known to migrate farther afield. One of these migrations is cyberspace and this little blog which makes a nice outlet for himself and others to keep tabs on him and his writing and whatnot.

Writingwise, Wred enjoys journalism (usually of the gonzo variety), fiction (usually of the humorous variety), and poetry (usually of the short variety). He's written for a plethora of publications (including some that actually pay such as Scene and some that are actually respectable such as The Journal For The Psychoanalysis Of Culture And Society), but he especially loves writing for blogs, comics, ezines, and zines such as Fightin' Fun Comics, Go Metric!, Zine World, and his own SMASH and drinkdrankdrunk. His novel The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is a humorous look at the life of a hapless garage rock band, while his second novel, Blog Love Omega Glee, pokes fun at the notion that the world will end in 2012. More writing by Wred can be found in the Library.

If you're press, and you need a photo, feel free to use the one above, which is also available as a high resolution JPG 1.94 MB if you need to print it.

Here's some of what our friends in the press have said about Wred:

Cleveland Bachelor 2009

Textnovelblog 2008

The New Castle News 2007

Pittsburgh City Paper 2007

Lakewood Observer 2006

Cleveland Magazine 2006

Utter Trash 2004

Cincinnati CityBeat 2003

Book TV Canada (Video so it may take some time to load) 2003

But don't take their word for it! If you have any questions, please contact Wred yourself!

Pardon The Maintenance!

I am revamping the WredFright.Com Website, so please pardon the strange posts as I transfer pages over from the old Website to Blogger over the next couple of weeks. My novel The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus has gone out of print (don't worry, latecomers, plenty of copies are still available through me and a few other outlets) so I'm making a few changes. Blog Love Omega Glee will carry on shortly as we start to round third and head for home.

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The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus

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The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is a comedic novel about a garage rock band in a college town, told from the point of view of the four band members--keyboardist Alexander Depot, bassist George Jah, guitarist Theodorable, and drummer Funnybear--and other characters. Unlike most other rock and roll novels which usually tell the story of a band rising to stardom, the Emus tells the story of the local band who never will "make it big" but rock on nonetheless. Previously published as a zine and online, The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus is now available as a book! The book is a handsome 6" by 8" paperback and 228 pages long. It may also have the silliest author photo ever: (Would you read a book by that author? I sure would!).

The book has received press coverage in The Bookaholics' Guide to Book Blogs, Cleveland Scene Magazine, Cool Cleveland, Dig This Real, Metro, The Neus Subjex, The New Castle News, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly, Pittsburgh City Paper, Verbicide, and Xerography Debt, and readers and reviewers have said, "[it] will have you flipping pages like mad" (Peter Chakerian of Cool Cleveland), "the prose absolutely sparkles" (Jack Cheiky of Syndicated Zine Reviews and Zine World), "I highly recommend this novel in every way possible" (Shawn Abnoxious of Neus Subjex), and "[it's] infinitely preferable to the eye-glazing 'literary fiction' shoveled out by the bigger publishers" (Daniel Green of The Reading Experience), "opus from bloom county walks the mean streets of youngstown and emerges unscathed" (Crazy Carl of Scared Stiff Reviews), "I would recommend this book to anyone!" (Madrea Marie of Gestalt & Pepper), and "it is wonderfully delightful" (Cleveland Bachelor of Cleveland Bachelor), and called it "the ultimate comedic rock 'n' roll novel" (Christopher Robin of The Guild of Outsider Writers), "a complete joy to read" (Todd Taylor of Razorcake), "raw and highly comical" (Brian Rademaekers in The North Star), "a great book" (novelist Leopold McGinnis of Outsider Writer's Blog), "a comic triumph" (novelist Lawrence Richette), "fast paced wacky fun" (Tom Hendricks of Musea), "a very entertaining novel" (Indy Ana Jones a.k.a. Owen Thomas of ZineThug), and "[r]ighteous, spirited silliness" (Bret McCabe of Baltimore City Paper). Novelist Eddie Willson wrote, "I really enjoyed your novel. It made me a laugh a lot and I was genuinely sorry to finish it and part with the characters. I don't remember reading a better evocation of what it's like to be in a band going nowhere. Thought the structure works really well too--you managed to keep the voices of the different narrators distinct, which I know is no mean feat . . . I can't wait to read the next one!" Poet Bruce Hodder declared Emus "funny," "inventive," and "terrifically well-written". All-around genius Mickey Hess has noted that "This volume presents today's best thinking." Film critic Mike White said "I was sad when it finished because I wanted it to keep going!". Ah, shucks.

To promote the book, I toured with with Crazy Carl, on the Underground Literary America reading tour, where we gave readings with special guests in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Lakewood/Cleveland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

Originally, the novel was serialized in zine form in seven issues on a quarterly schedule in 2002-2003 to rant and rave reviews. Xerography Debt wrote, "It's like the Monkees with more sex and booze. It's like . . . Extreme Monkees! Oh man, if I was a TV producer I'd buy the rights to the Emus from Wred and shop them around to the networks as the Monkees of the new millennium and . . . oh man, we'd have such a hit on our hands." Blank Generation wrote, "This zine is one of the best I read." ZineThug noted, "I'm getting impatient for the next one." Zine World said, "I found myself laughing out loud a number of times, and that's a rare occurrence." Literary Fan Magazine opined, "We sometimes forget the first requirement of fiction is to entertain--to get people to read it in the first place. And yes, the Flabbergasted Saga is often hilarious." Thoughtworm declared, "Highly recommended!" Low Hug pronounced, "Better than average fiction, much more engaging than I've read in a mass-marketed book in a while." Justin Chatwin in Zine Nation exclaimed, "What can I say, by now you have probabally heard it all before. In fact this zine is proving so popular, that Wred may have to start web postings pronto or risk getting a hernia from spending so much time bent over his printer." Razorcake testified, "I've been following the Emus since the first issue, and I'm hooked. I get excited when a new issue comes in the mail. I usually stop what I'm doing and sit down and read it right away." Zine Guide called it "Fun" and made it one of their zines of the week. Chumpire remarked, "well-written." Roctober commented, "I really like how the book reads musically like a good Nuggets tune." Neufutur liked an issue so much that James McQuiston wrote "Here's to hoping that . . . we hear more from Wred in the near future". In Breakfast #4, Vincent declared Emus "a fun read"!

When I toured on the Perpetual Motion Roadshow through Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Chicago in September 2003, the readings I did from the novel attracted attention from BookTV Canada, Cincinnati CityBeat, McGill Daily, Montreal Mirror, New York Post, Ottawa Sun, and Ottawa Xpress, among others, which was pretty impressive for a scruffy little zine.

After the zine run, the novel was available as an ebook on this very site for some time. Now it is available as a book (10 digit ISBN is 1892590476 and the 13 digit ISBN is 978-1892590473)! If you like a good story, you will likely enjoy reading Emus. If you like to laugh, you will likely enjoy reading Emus. If you like rock and roll, you will likely enjoy reading Emus. And, if you've ever played in a band, you will definitely enjoy reading Emus!

If you'd like to read a sample of the book, excerpts from the novel are available a few places, including Issuu; Scribd; the 2008 issue of INSCAPE, the Ursuline College Fine Arts Annual; and on the blog on the Wred Fright MySpace page.

If you're press and need a high resolution image of the book's cover, you can download a 3.2 JPG here. If you want to use a low resolution photo online for your blog or whatnot, please just copy the one at the top of the post. The cover photograph is by me, and yes, there really was a bathroom with a drumset in it.

I have some signed copies of the book for sale. They are $15 postpaid in the USA ($14 plus $1 for shipping--I will ship it media mail in the USA; if you want it shipped faster, that's a possibility, please just contact me at wredfright AT yahoo.com so we can determine the cost of the faster shipping) or $20 postpaid internationally ($14 plus $6 for shipping--typically first class airmail). Please also indicate how you want your book signed (e.g., "To Claudine, Wred Fright") (there should be a "Notes/Dedication" field above the button for notes if you order via PayPal--otherwise just send me an email or note via mail), and I'll sign it that way within reason (e.g., if you want it made out "To Gertrude, Remember that passionate night we spent together on the banks of the Potomac, Wred Fright," it might show up just signed "To Gertrude, Wred Fright," but you never know . . .). To order, please choose the appropriate PayPal button below (the first is for US orders, the second for international orders; if you need to send a check or money order for $15 in U.S. funds per book domestically or $20 per book internationally payable to "Fred Wright", please contact me for the current mailing address). Unless I'm out on tour or something, I'll try to get it mailed out as soon as I can, but since most of these are sent either media mail domestically please be patient. For questions about your order, please email me at wredfright AT yahoo.com.

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And for every book ordered I'll also send a zine as a bonus (most likely The Underground Literary Alliance's Slush Pile 5 or a zine sampler of Game Quest by Leopold McGinnis)! So order your book today and get a free zine as a thank you!

Nonsigned copies of the novel are available from a variety of retail outlets including Amazon (World), Half.Com (USA), Mac's Backs (Cleveland Heights, Ohio USA), Freebird Books and Goods (New York City, New York USA), Webster's (State College, Pennsylvania, USA), and more. If your local store doesn't carry it, please tell them to contact me.

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P.S./Still on the fence? Look what reading Emus did for reader Leopold McGinnis!:

Blog Love Omega Glee

Blog Love Omega Glee by Wred Fright
Blog Love Omega Glee eBook
It's out! The .epub and .pdf versions of Blog Love Omega Glee are done! I'm releasing them into the wild of the Internet. You can download them, share them, and, most of all, read them! You can download the files for free here. I'm leaving the serialized version up on the blog (see the links below), but I've made minor changes (and hope I've caught all the typos) in the collected version and regard it as the definitive version of the novel. One fun way to read it is a chapter a day during the course of a year (especially 2012), or go for reading all 230,000 words or so in one lump! The files should work on most computers, ereaders, and tablets. If you like it, then please send me a donation at the PayPal link on the sidebar and below (or, in the zine tradition, trade books with me, or, if you live in a country that has such delicious candy bars as Topic, Big Turk, Lion, Fry's Turkish Delight, or Coffee Crisp, you can mail me one of those --email me for the current postal address). Enjoy! And please feel free to let me know what you think!


For Antigone

Two bloggers fall in love while the world falls apart in Blog Love Omega Glee, a comedic story set in 2012, with each chapter taking place on a different day counting down to the end of the Mayan calendar on 21 December 2012, when the world either ends or continues on much the same as before. The two central characters are Jake Falls, a twenty-five-year-old unemployed man living with his parents who spends most of his time blogging about pro wrestling, and Francine Apple, a twenty-nine-year-old barely employed woman who has dropped out of the American Dream to blog about various conspiracy theories. Other characters abound as well, including Jake's cats, family, and friends, and Francine's coworkers, housemates, and neighbors. The story is set in Cleaveland, a decaying industrial city in the northern part of the USA, and its suburbs on the shores of Lake Eerie. It's year 12 of a fascist regime, and a severed head named Dick with a soft drink vending machine for a body is president/dictator, but no one much notices because they're too busy watching television and obsessing over their personal lives to worry about wars overseas, the government swindling taxpayers, and the rich stuffing their already-stuffed pockets further with rapidly-depreciating currency. Some people find this worrisome, but most people just change the channel. Regardless, even though in many ways for the average person life is still better than ever before in the history of human existence since Eden, most people feel a vague sense of unease, as if the delicate stitching of society is about to come undone at any moment, pouring forth a centuries long buildup of too many human beings, anarchy in the streets, environmental collapse, and lots and lots of really bad coffee. Between existential dread, economic worries, presidential electioneering, electronic domineering, and large sweaty men in tights touching one another as entertainment, there's Blog Love Omega Glee!

Blog Love Omega Glee was published right here on Wred Fright's Blog and is still available here. That's right, it's a blognovel or a blovel! Unlike, most blognovels and blovels, this one actually was finished, instead of being abandoned. Since the story has four parts, depending on how you look at it, it's either one really long novel, or a series of four novels. Below is a list with links to the chapters, and if you want to read a another novel by Fright, then his first novel is still available.

Blog Love Omega Glee by Wred Fright.

Part One: Blog

Chapter 1: New Year, Old Fear (1 January 2012)

Chapter 2: I Breathe, Therefore I Blog (2 January 2012)

Chapter 3: The Cannibal Cookbook (3 January 2012)

Chapter 4: Jake's Dream (4 January 2012)

Chapter 5: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Grocery Cards (5 January 2012)

Chapter 6: Believe In Cleaveland (6 January 2012)

Chapter 7: Woo-Hoo! You've Fulfilled Your Biological Imperative! (7 January 2012)

Chapter 8: The Coyote And His Comics (8 January 2012)

Chapter 9: Rob Poorpeople For President! (9 January 2012)

Chapter 10: Trees Don't Vote (10 January 2012)

Chapter 11: Boxcutter Blues (11 January 2012)

Chapter 12: If You Keep Heading South Long Enough, Then Eventually You're Going North (12 January 2012)

Chapter 13: Twitchy On The Thirteenth (13 January 2012)

Chapter 14: Your Week Is A Weekend (14 January 2012)

Chapter 15: A Coffeehouse Conversation About The President's Dentist (15 January 2012)

Chapter 16: Clean At Last, Thank God Almighty, We Are Clean At Last (16 January 2012)

Chapter 17: Dinner With The Folks (17 January 2012)

Chapter 18: The Fudgepackers Vs. The Homophobes (18 January 2012)

Chapter 19: A Comic Book Reading Party (19 January 2012)

Chapter 20: Lou's A Morning Person (20 January 2012)

Chapter 21: Just A Minor Deity (21 January 2012)

Chapter 22: High Noon At Midnight! (22 January 2012)

Chapter 23: And Don't Play In Traffic Either! (23 January 2012)

Chapter 24: The State Of The Union (24 January 2012)

Chapter 25: Zine Rhymes With Keen (25 January 2012)

Chapter 26: The Litterbox Blues (26 January 2012)

Chapter 27: Eve In The Evening (27 January 2012)

Chapter 28: Human Factories (28 January 2012)

Chapter 29: The Church Of Superheroes (29 January 2012)

Chapter 30: Homeland Security Hair Alert Color Chart Advisory System (30 January 2012)

Chapter 31: Just My Two Cents (Unless Your Greedy CEO Wants Them Too) (31 January 2012)

Chapter 32: National Freedom Day (1 February 2012)

Chapter 33: Groundhog Filet (2 February 2012)

Chapter 34: With WCYA-AM On The Dial, You'll Soon Be Wearing A Smile (3 February 2012)

Chapter 35: Tony The Perv (4 February 2012)

Chapter 36: Radio Free Eschatology (5 February 2012)

Chapter 37: While The Rest Of The World Sleeps (6 February 2012)

Chapter 38: Convention On The Prohibition Of Military Or Any Other Hostile Use Of Environmental Modification Techniques (7 February 2012)

Chapter 39: Everybody Complains About The Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It (8 February 2012)

Chapter 40: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Alien Vampire Fascists (9 February 2012)

Chapter 41: Why Can't The World Be Polite? (10 February 2012)

Chapter 42: The Panty Sniffer Vs. The Amazing Announcer (11 February 2012)

Chapter 43: Of Rulers And Rulers (12 February 2012)

Chapter 44: A License To Fuck (13 February 2012)

Chapter 45: Last Year's Valentine (14 February 2012)

Chapter 46: No Personality Required! (15 February 2012)

Chapter 47: The Ghost Of Checkers Nixon (16 February 2012)

Chapter 48: The President Vs. Poorpeople (17 February 2012)

Chapter 49: The Friend You Forgot (18 February 2012)

Chapter 50: Quickening And Sickening (19 February 2012)

Chapter 51: Peasants Day (20 February 2012)

Chapter 52: Paczki Paczki (21 February 2012)

Chapter 53: Wednesday Before It Turns To Ashes (22 February 2012)

Chapter 54: Blatant Product Placement (23 February 2012)

Chapter 55: Welcome Humans to Superautomatmarket! (24 February 2012)

Chapter 56: The Bodyslam Poet (25 February 2012)

Chapter 57: Pit Bull Continental Breakfast (26 February 2012)

Chapter 58: Melancholy Night, Mystery Novel (27 February 2012)

Chapter 59: Chris And Chris (28 February 2012)

Chapter 60: When In Doubt, Leap! (29 February 2012)

Chapter 61: What I Watched On Television Last Night And Other Important News I Must Report On My Blog (1 March 2012)

Chapter 62: Living La Vida Post Office (2 March 2012)

Chapter 63: Recommended Daily Allowance Of Fighting Words (3 March 2012)

Chapter 64: Where Does Time Go? (4 March 2012)

Chapter 65: The Senator And The Stripper (5 March 2012)

Chapter 66: Fiction Feeding Frenzy Fuels Fact Fixative (6 March 2012)

Chapter 67: So Goes The Nation (7 March 2012)

Chapter 68: How Much Fort Can You Afford? (8 March 2012)

Chapter 69: Talk About, Prop Music! (9 March 2012)

Chapter 70: Solicitors Blues (10 March 2012)

Chapter 71: The Hour That Never Was (11 March 2012)

Chapter 72: Why Do People Drive Automobiles So Badly? (12 March 2012)

Chapter 73: Who Moved My Paranoia? (13 March 2012)

Chapter 74: How We Will All Become Millionaires Someday (14 March 2012)

Chapter 75: The Last Socially Acceptable Form Of Bigotry? (15 March 2012)

Chapter 76: Rest In Peace Ed "The Bedwetter" Driphoski (16 March 2012)

Chapter 77: Manuel In The Morning (17 March 2012)

Chapter 78: Excuse Me, Could I Get A Refund? This Politician Is Defective (18 March 2012)

Chapter 79: Never Trust A . . . Fill In The Blank (19 March 2012)

Chapter 80: Spring Brings Singing Things (20 March 2012)

Chapter 81: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Automation, The Elderly, And Smokeless Tobacco (21 March 2012)

Chapter 82: George Orwell's Mustache (22 March 2012)

Chapter 83: I'm Feeling Near Mint Today (23 March 2012)

Chapter 84: Don't Submit, Organize! (24 March 2012)

Chapter 85: Yodel For Yahweh Before It's Too Late! (25 March 2012)

Chapter 86: The Hissing Woman (26 March 2012)

Chapter 87: Napoleon Invades The Grocery Store (27 March 2012)

Chapter 88: Reminded Again That It's Expensive Being Poor (28 March 2012)

Chapter 89: Blogging Maintains Mental Health Like Brushing Maintains Dental Health (29 March 2012)

Chapter 90: Your Services Are No Longer Required, So Please Die Quietly And In An Orderly Fashion (30 March 2012)

Chapter 91: Winifred Wings In (31 March 2012)



Part Two: Love

Chapter 92: Asteroid Strikes Earth! Ends Civilization! More News After This Commercial! (1 April 2012)

Chapter 93: Big Brother Wishes You A Happy Birthday! Now Please Register For Selective Service! (2 April 2012)

Chapter 94: I Like To Fly My Airplane Around Town (3 April 2012)

Chapter 95: Since The Public Isn't Educated, Why Not Abolish Public Education? (4 April 2012)

Chapter 96: You Don't Want Your Bladder To Explode (5 April 2012)

Chapter 97: Would You, Like, I Mean, Maybe, Consider, Just Think About It, Trading Links With Me? (6 April 2012)

Chapter 98: Please Be Polite, The Coyote Is Listening (7 April 2012)

Chapter 99: An Easter Smile (8 April 2012)

Chapter 100: How Dunkin Charles Funds His Crack Habit (9 April 2012)

Chapter 101: A Coffeehouse Conversation About The Difficulty Of Continuing A Conspiracy Across The Generations (10 April 2012)

Chapter 102: This Download Stinks! (11 April 2012)

Chapter 103: Herbert Hoopsnake Has All The Answers So You Don't Need To Worry About Thinking (12 April 2012)

Chapter 104: Date Or Dad? (13 April 2012)

Chapter 105: The Angry Housewife Finds A New Use For The Blender (14 April 2012)

Chapter 106: Be Hip! Get A Chip! (15 April 2012)

Chapter 107: A Visit To The Dentist (16 April 2012)

Chapter 108: Taxes Are Taxing (17 April 2012)

Chapter 109: My Struggle By Chess The Presidential Dog (18 April 2012)

Chapter 110: Why Don't You Stop Watching Wrestling And Grow Up? (19 April 2012)

Chapter 111: V2K12 (20 April 2012)

Chapter 112: Coffee, Tea, Or EMD? (21 April 2012)

Chapter 113: If We Save The Earth, Do We Have To Save All The Idiots On It Too Or Can We Just Let Them Die? (22 April 2012)

Chapter 114: Reading Is Fun From Left To Right (23 April 2012)

Chapter 115: Making Makeup (24 April 2012)

Chapter 116: Stocking Up On Books For The Apocalypse (25 April 2012)

Chapter 117: The Best Time To Commit A Crime (26 April 2012)

Chapter 118: That Tree Could Use Some Eyeshadow (27 April 2012)

Chapter 119: Nationalism In The Scrap Yard (28 April 2012)

Chapter 120: Blog Update Guilt (29 April 2012)

Chapter 121: A Drink In A Dive And A Dive In A Drink (30 April 2012)

Chapter 122: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Whether Or Not The Apocalypse Is Covered Under Homeowners Insurance (1 May 2012)

Chapter 123: The Ghost In The Vending Machine (2 May 2012)

Chapter 124: The League Of Intelligent Wrestling Fans (3 May 2012)

Chapter 125: Francine Feels Funky (4 May 2012)

Chapter 126: Meet The Nutjob (5 May 2012)

Chapter 127: To Blog Or Not To Blog? (6 May 2012)

Chapter 128: The Cats Say Hello (7 May 2012)

Chapter 129: Francine Asks Herself (8 May 2012)

Chapter 130: Lies, Spies, Eyes, Cries, Whys, Pies, Thighs, And Guys (9 May 2012)

Chapter 131: Love On A Thursday Afternoon (10 May 2012)

Chapter 132: Kitty O'Couscous Throws Her Hat (Along With All Her Other Articles Of Clothing) In The Ring (11 May 2012)

Chapter 133: North Goes South (12 May 2012)

Chapter 134: Zany In Zanesville (13 May 2012)

Chapter 135: The Coyote Vs. The Litterbug! (14 May 2012)

Chapter 136: The Pettifoggers Get Damages Awarded (15 May 2012)

Chapter 137: Television Reality Meets Reality Television (16 May 2012)

Chapter 138: A Trip To The Grocery Store, Or The Savagery Of Shopping (17 May 2012)

Chapter 139: A Read Of The Daily Newspaper, Or Rhapsodizing For The Rich (18 May 2012)

Chapter 140: The Top Of The Bottom And The Bottom Of The Top (19 May 2012)

Chapter 141: Masani By The Light Of The Refrigerator (20 May 2012)

Chapter 142: Jacob Contended With The Angel And Triumphed And Then They Formed A Tag Team (21 May 2012)

Chapter 143: Stolen Fuse Blues (22 May 2012)

Chapter 144: Standard Bribery Rates (23 May 2012)

Chapter 145: Undercover In The Underground (24 May 2012)

Chapter 146: Why America Loves Gangsters (25 May 2012)

Chapter 147: The Onus Of The Anus (26 May 2012)

Chapter 148: Some Fear Failure; Some Fear Success (27 May 2012)

Chapter 149: I Hope I Don't Remember This Memorial Day (28 May 2012)

Chapter 150: How Can A Politician Without A Sense Of Humor Be So Funny? (29 May 2012)

Chapter 151: Cain Vs. Abel, The Rematch You've Been Waiting For (30 May 2012)

Chapter 152: Do Office Supplies Make You Tingle? (31 May 2012)

Chapter 153: Got 'Em Out By Friday (1 June 2012)

Chapter 154: Reading, Riting, And Rassling (2 June 2012)

Chapter 155: Motion Sickness At The Moving Pictures (3 June 2012)

Chapter 156: Lake Jake (4 June 2012)

Chapter 157: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Ley Lines And Rock And Roll (5 June 2012)

Chapter 158: The Justice Junto Of Ohio (6 June 2012)

Chapter 159: Speller B Loses His C-O-O-L (7 June 2012)

Chapter 160: And Will The Real Vice-President Please Stand Up? (8 June 2012)

Chapter 161: Goodbye, Teeth! Hello, Wisdom! (9 June 2012)

Chapter 162: After All This Yogurt, I'd Kill For A Bilderberger (10 June 2012)

Chapter 163: Shakesberry Morning Goodness! (11 June 2012)

Chapter 164: A Book Of Stamps And A Conspiracy Theory (12 June 2012)

Chapter 165: I Really Thought The World Would Have Ended By Now (13 June 2012)

Chapter 166: An Artificial Intelligence Is Better Than None At All (14 June 2012)

Chapter 167: The Key To Your Heart Doesn't Work In This Deadbolt (15 June 2012)

Chapter 168: A Good Day For Blooming (16 June 2012)

Chapter 169: A Date With Dad (17 June 2012)

Chapter 170: The Mystery Of The Pamphlets (18 June 2012)

Chapter 171: Jolly Juneteenth (19 June 2012)

Chapter 172: The Solstice Of The Pamphleteer (20 June 2012)

Chapter 173: The Optimist And The Pessimist Argue Over How Much Water Is Left In The Glass (21 June 2012)

Chapter 174: Capitalization And The Class System (22 June 2012)

Chapter 175: Caution: Heel Turn Ahead (23 June 2012)

Chapter 176: We Are All Tenants In The World (24 June 2012)

Chapter 177: Hamlet In A Steel Cage Match (25 June 2012)

Chapter 178: Miss Mess's Version Of Teatime (26 June 2012)

Chapter 179: The President's Produce Stand (27 June 2012)

Chapter 180: Transhumanism Euphemism (28 June 2012)

Chapter 181: And His Opponent, From Mount Olympus . . .
(29 June 2012)

Chapter 182: Print On Demand Lover (30 June 2012)



Part Three: Omega

Chapter 183: What's Our Omega Point, Baby? (1 July 2012)

Chapter 184: The Anti-Semitic Service Station (2 July 2012)

Chapter 185: He May Be A Bastard, But He's R. Bastard (3 July 2012)

Chapter 186: The Forthright Of July (4 July 2012)

Chapter 187: You Gonna Like Uganda! (5 July 2012)

Chapter 188: Voter Fraud Tattoo (6 July 2012)

Chapter 189: Who Stole The Championship Belt? (7 July 2012)

Chapter 190: Pick A Culprit, Any Culprit (8 July 2012)

Chapter 191: The Coyote Solution (9 July 2012)

Chapter 192: The Marching Hare (10 July 2012)

Chapter 193: World Population Day (11 July 2012)

Chapter 194: The Right To Lob Molotovs (12 July 2012)

Chapter 195: The Computer Science Of Wrestling (13 July 2012)

Chapter 196: Our Dude Of Passing Out Before We Run Out Of Beer (14 July 2012)

Chapter 197: Firework Follies (15 July 2012)

Chapter 198: Smokescreens Of The Illuminati, Stinkysmells Of The Kitties (16 July 2012)

Chapter 199: Your Resume Gave Me A Chuckle (17 July 2012)

Chapter 200: How To Read A News Magazine (18 July 2012)

Chapter 201: A Greengrocer Turns Blue (19 July 2012)

Chapter 202: Ramadan Rush (20 July 2012)

Chapter 203: You'll Have To Scream Louder; I Can't Hear You Without My Hearing Aid (21 July 2012)

Chapter 204: I'm Feeling A Little Less Immortal Today (22 July 2012)

Chapter 205: From A Lifelong Scumbag To An Overnight Saint (23 July 2012)

Chapter 206: Sovereign Immunity Means The Government Never Has To Say Sorry (24 July 2012)

Chapter 207: God's God (25 July 2012)

Chapter 208: Shredding The Wedding (26 July 2012)

Chapter 209: Parking Lot Pandemonium (27 July 2012)

Chapter 210: R. Bastard Finds the Belt (28 July 2012)

Chapter 211: If You Really Want To Help The Environment, Here's What I Recommend (29 July 2012)

Chapter 212: What You Call Being Paranoid, I Call Being Well-Informed (30 July 2012)

Chapter 213: Getting Paid To Read War And Peace (31 July 2012)

Chapter 214: How's The Shrimp-Fried Rice? (1 August 2012)

Chapter 215: The Coffeehouse Mumbler (2 August 2012)

Chapter 216: Snipers Stop Speeders (3 August 2012)

Chapter 217: The Tickler Will Make You Submit (4 August 2012)

Chapter 218: Shrinking, Surviving (5 August 2012)

Chapter 219: I'm Not A Failure; I'm Just A Success Waiting To Happen (6 August 2012)

Chapter 220: Garage Sale Intellectual (7 August 2012)

Chapter 221: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Whether Or Not God Believes In Us (8 August 2012)

Chapter 222: Lovers' Quarrel: Two Out Of Three Falls (9 August 2012)

Chapter 223: And They All Died Miserably Right Then (10 August 2012)

Chapter 224: Who Picks Up The Garbage After The Revolution? (11 August 2012)

Chapter 225: Mom Starts Writing A New Bible (12 August 2012)

Chapter 226: The Dangers Of Falling Asleep On The Couch (13 August 2012)

Chapter 227: Offline, Powerless, And Queasy (14 August 2012)

Chapter 228: Congressional Representative Waffles On Voter Implants After Pancake Battering (15 August 2012)

Chapter 229: A Screed In A Screed (16 August 2012)

Chapter 230: The Anti-Tipping Squad (17 August 2012)

Chapter 231: Baby Wants His Dinky (18 August 2012)

Chapter 232: The Devil Likes To Summer In Ohio (19 August 2012)

Chapter 233: The Shepherd Of The Drunk (20 August 2012)

Chapter 234: Bloggers, Politicians, And Reptiles (21 August 2012)

Chapter 235: Never Marry A Poet (22 August 2012)

Chapter 236: I Hate It When It Rains Indoors (23 August 2012)

Chapter 237: This Book Will Change Your Lunch! (24 August 2012)

Chapter 238: Dysfunction Needs F.U.N.! (25 August 2012)

Chapter 239: A Coffeehouse Conversation About The Global Warming Conspiracy To Sell More Air Conditioners (26 August 2012)

Chapter 240: Evil Journalista Reports Live From The Convention Floor (27 August 2012)

Chapter 241: The History Of Civilization Ends On A Golf Course (28 August 2012)

Chapter 242: We Love Teas! We Hate Taxes! (29 August 2012)

Chapter 243: Buying Magazines With Half-Naked Men On The Covers (30 August 2012)

Chapter 244: Would You Describe Your Mania As An Arrangement Attack Or More Of An Organizational Obsession? (31 August 2012)

Chapter 245: Please, Talk For Another Hour About The Lizard People (1 September 2012)

Chapter 246: My Lovelife Is A Conspiracy (2 September 2012)

Chapter 247: Why Do They Call It "Labor Day" When Everyone Has The Day Off? (3 September 2012)

Chapter 248: Wrestling With Antiquity (4 September 2012)

Chapter 249: Lovers Like To Lie (5 September 2012)

Chapter 250: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Why Fictional Detectives Don't Ever Need To Take A Shit (6 September 2012)

Chapter 251: I Find Libraries Depressing (7 September 2012)

Chapter 252: God, I'm Calling You Out! (8 September 2012)

Chapter 253: The Coyote Howls Again! (9 September 2012)

Chapter 254: Typing In Tongues (10 September 2012)

Chapter 255: Who Remembers The Maine? (11 September 2012)

Chapter 256: A Loser Leaves The Tip Match (12 September 2012)

Chapter 257: Who Would Steal A 1987 Buick LeSabre? (13 September 2012)

Chapter 258: Monarchy Is Mockery But A Royal Massage Is Really Marvelous (14 September 2012)

Chapter 259: The Secret Origin Of The Cleaveland Coyote (15 September 2012)

Chapter 260: Ringo Lingo Bingo (16 September 2012)

Chapter 261: I'm Going To Open You Up Like A Can Of Beans (17 September 2012)

Chapter 262: Hank Plays A Prank (18 September 2012)

Chapter 263: Talk Like A Pirate, Write Like A Poet (19 September 2012)

Chapter 264: Grudgefucking: The Musical (20 September 2012)

Chapter 265: When You Hear The Words "National Security", Hide Your Money (21 September 2012)

Chapter 266: This Championship Is Under Construction (22 September 2012)

Chapter 267: Corporate Creeps From The Last Decade (23 September 2012)

Chapter 268: Bogged Down And Blogged Up (24 September 2012)

Chapter 269: America: New And Improved And Now With More Moral Fiber (25 September 2012)

Chapter 270: The People Who Delight In Saying That Wrestling's Fake Always Think That Politics Are Real (26 September 2012)

Chapter 271: The Business Cycle Of Emotional Capitalism (27 September 2012)

Chapter 272: Why Are People Scared Of Falling In The Bathtub But Not Of Falling In Love? (28 September 2012)

Chapter 273: There Is Something About Print (29 September 2012)

Chapter 274: If You Haven't Been Offended Yet, Then Please Keep Reading And You Will Be (30 September 2012)



Part Four: Glee

Chapter 275: Love Is Like A Wrestling Match (1 October 2012)

Chapter 276: I Love The People Who Made My DVD Player (2 October 2012)

Chapter 277: The Arithmetic Of Vengeance (3 October 2012)

Chapter 278: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Chinese Restaurant Sleeper Cells (4 October 2012)

Chapter 279: Love Letters To The Editor (5 October 2012)

Chapter 280: Wrestling The World (6 October 2012)

Chapter 281: Last Howl Of The Coyote (7 October 2012)

Chapter 282: Columbus Never Gave Up But Maybe You Should (8 October 2012)

Chapter 283: Happy Leif Erikson Day! (9 October 2012)

Chapter 284: It's Not An Identity Crisis; It's An Identity Opportunity (10 October 2012)

Chapter 285: Can We Please Just Get This Election Over With? (11 October 2012)

Chapter 286: My Uncle Spider-Man (12 October 2012)

Chapter 287: Moving In, Moving Out (13 October 2012)

Chapter 288: Another Shameless Commercial Disguised As a Chapter (14 October 2012)

Chapter 289: A Turkey Who Plays Chicken (15 October 2012)

Chapter 290: Deliver Me A Dashing Job, Dude! (16 October 2012)

Chapter 291: Pillow Talk, Pillow Fight (17 October 2012)

Chapter 292: The Missing Day (18 October 2012)

Chapter 293: I Sing Of Singularity (19 October 2012)

Chapter 294: The Healthy Hospital Loses Some Dead Weight (20 October 2012)

Chapter 295: Through Machines, We Can Live Forever (21 October 2012)

Chapter 296: I Find Revenge Very Therapeutic (22 October 2012)

Chapter 297: Library Laughs, Mother Mutters (23 October 2012)

Chapter 298: Zero Point Zero (24 October 2012)

Chapter 299: The Alley Of Asphyxiated Aspirations (25 October 2012)

Chapter 300: We Deliver Everything But Babies (26 October 2012)

Chapter 301: The Class War Turns Literal (27 October 2012)

Chapter 302: I Think I Have A Coupon For That, Too (28 October 2012)

Chapter 303: Boustrophedon Blues (29 October 2012)

Chapter 304: Piethrowing Mass Shooter (30 October 2012)

Chapter 305: Some Years Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween (31 October 2012)

Chapter 306: Presidential Mythmaking Makes My Blood Pressure Lifttaking (1 November 2012)

Chapter 307: I Like My Vice-Presidential Candidates Extra Crispy (2 November 2012)

Chapter 308: I Once Was a Guest (3 November 2012)

Chapter 309: The Stolen Hour Gets Returned (4 November 2012)

Chapter 310: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Fast Food As Thought Control (5 November 2012)

Chapter 311: The Problems Of Democracy Can Be Solved With More Donuts (6 November 2012)

Chapter 312: The Government Rips Off The Government (7 November 2012)

Chapter 313: I Can't Believe I'm Talking With Somebody Who Actually Believes The TV News (8 November 2012)

Chapter 314: Can We Now Please Please Please Stop Talking About Politics For A While? (9 November 2012)

Chapter 315: Cain Vs. Abel: The Rematch (10 November 2012)

Chapter 316: Pillpopping Paramedics (11 November 2012)

Chapter 317: Losing The Battle Of The Thermostat, Winning The Frigid Life (12 November 2012)

Chapter 318: Oh, The Things I'm Going To Do To You (13 November 2012)

Chapter 319: The Mystery Of The Missing Water Bill (14 November 2012)

Chapter 320: Please Don't Light A Campfire In The House (15 November 2012)

Chapter 321: Horny Housewarming (16 November 2012)

Chapter 322: Would You Like To Buy Some Gently Used Snow? (17 November 2012)

Chapter 323: One Last Snowangel Before You Go (18 November 2012)

Chapter 324: Stop Discriminating Against Corporate Citizens! (19 November 2012)

Chapter 325: Basic Training Is Basically Draining (20 November 2012)

Chapter 326: The Amish Shall Inherit The Earth (At Least What's Left Of It) (21 November 2012)

Chapter 327: Portrait Of A Pumpkin (22 November 2012)

Chapter 328: Peanut Butter And Women (23 November 2012)

Chapter 329: Gimme That Old Time Rasslin' (24 November 2012)

Chapter 330: Having A Conscience In America Just Costs You Money (25 November 2012)

Chapter 331: Oc And The Three Cocks (26 November 2012)

Chapter 332: Why Are Lawyers Always Idiots? (27 November 2012)

Chapter 333: I'm Not On Facebook So I Don't Have Any Friends (28 November 2012)

Chapter 334: Only 22 More Shopping Days Before The End Of Days (29 November 2012)

Chapter 335: I Like Nice People (30 November 2012)

Chapter 336: Nothing Says I Love You Like Doing A Blog Together (1 December 2012)

Chapter 337: Surfing The Timewave And Wiping Out (2 December 2012)

Chapter 338: And This Year's Award For The Biggest Lie Goes To . . . (3 December 2012)

Chapter 339: A Coffeehouse Conversation About Symbols In Currency (4 December 2012)

Chapter 340: The Neighborhood Just Got A Little Less Cooler (5 December 2012)

Chapter 341: Yeah, Why Don't Bands Tour As Their Own Tribute Acts? (6 December 2012)

Chapter 342: It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) (7 December 2012)

Chapter 343: A Prone Math Lesson (8 December 2012)

Chapter 344: An Inadvertent Adam (9 December 2012)

Chapter 345: Bruce Goose Explains The 2012 Myth (10 December 2012)

Chapter 346: A Leak I Like (11 December 2012)

Chapter 347: Can You Giftwrap Love? (12 December 2012)

Chapter 348: Lonnie Lectures On Love (13 December 2012)

Chapter 349: Civilization Collapses (14 December 2012)

Chapter 350: The Best System Of Control (15 December 2012)

Chapter 351: Be Kind. Do Good. Have Fun. Don't Eat Shit. (16 December 2012)

Chapter 352: The End Is Near And I Need A Beer (17 December 2012)

Chapter 353: You Can Go Home Again (And Again And Again) (18 December 2012)

Chapter 354: One Can Never Have Too Many Cans Of Beans Apparently (19 December 2012)

Chapter 355: What Comes After Happily Ever After? (20 December 2012)

Chapter 356: The End (21 December 2012)



Blog Love Omega Glee is copyright 2008 Fred Wright. If you'd like to use an excerpt somewhere (like Go Metric did for their issue #22, and The Outsider Writers Collective did) or whatnot, then please get in touch. You can also find part of the novel serialized on Textnovel.Com where it was an editor's pick among those who like to read novels on their phones.

So far, the novel's been noted in American Pop Lit (who called me "an innovative writer of fun new pop lit--a pioneer in the fight to revive American literature"), Attacking The Demi-Puppets, Cleveland Scene, Cool Cleveland (who wrote, "and (perhaps best of all) it's set in 2012 in a city called 'Cleaveland' (not to be confused, wink-wink, with our city with the slightly different spelling)"--hmm . . . I wonder if there's a Cool Cleaveland email newsletter in the novel . . .), The Rumpus by author Mickey Hess (who blurbed "Goons and patriots, get ready! Wred Fright’s new novel scowls at your perfect sentences. There are gorgeous techniques and colorful dialogue, the book’s action, mood, the author himself. There are things this novelist should be allowed to do that the rest of us are not."), Try This At Home by novelist Eddie Willson (who wrote, "After experimenting with multiple narrators in his novel The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, Wred Fright continues to develop his fiction in inventive ways. Here he’s posting a new novel in blog form. Set in the near future the regularly updated narrative charts the lives of wrestling-fixated loser Jake and militant waitress Francine. I’ve got some catching up to do but this is addictive stuff. Here and elsewhere Wred’s big strength is in characterization-–he’s got a real gift for getting you rooting for characters whose lives have got a bit bent out of shape. This tale’s going to be taking up my lunch breaks for the foreseeable future. Highly recommended."), The Whirliblog (who wrote that "It's tastier than Cap'n Crunk!"), Xerography Debt, and Zine World.

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