Blog Love Omega Glee by Wred Fright
For The Kitty
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 is being published on Wred Fright's Blog. That's right, it's a blognovel or a blovel! Unlike, most blognovels and blovels, this one should actually finish, instead of being abandoned. Usually, a new chapter appears daily, but sometimes it may be weeks and months between chapters. 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 that have appeared so far, but if you ever get tired of waiting and want to read a novel by Fright in one go, then his first novel is still available as a book and ebook.
Blog Love Omega Glee by Wred Fright.
Use the links to go more quickly to the section you want: Part One: Blog Part Two: Love Part Three: Omega Part Four: Glee
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)
Part Four: Glee
Forthcoming
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"), 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 . . .), 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.