Mischief!
[B]Mischief![/B]
Nothing sells better than controversy, right?
And if people are going to go all out promoting Rant, we may as well really go all out, right?
So this is what I want this thread to be for. Some of us, especially the livelier some of us who have no prior convictions, are in a prime position to cause a bit of mischief promoting Rant. Now I’m not suggesting breaking the law, but how about we use this thread to discus some better ways of promoting the book. I’ve got some ideas, and I’m going to carry them out, but surely you all have some of your own too. If you do, post them here, in a project-mayhem / cacophony society style.
My first idea, I’m going to call it Letter Writing.
[B]Letter Writing:[/B]
Write a letter. It’s a chance to practice some writing skills on a more subtle level. Write a letter about yourself, or just write a load of lies, and include some references to Rant. Something like it’s a book you’re looking forward to, or you’ve just read an Advanced Reading Copy, or some silly coincidence that will stick in the readers mind. Write this letter and print it off and sign a false name at the bottom. Then, walk out on the street, look at someone. Just one person, and walk straight towards them. Politely, but firmly, say, “I wrote you a letter.” and then walk away. You will have made a couple of copies of these letters, and you’ll do this to a few people. When your batch is finished, go and write another letter, and do the same thing in a different area. People will love getting a letter with a bit of a personal story about someone in it, and by mentioning Rant, you’re subtly promoting the book too. Also, if some of the older folks feel a little uncomfortable doing this. Then alter it to your own needs. Post the letter through a door, or drop it into someone's shopping bag.
That’s one idea anyway, what else do you people advise?
My idea probably isn't the best, but you should do it and implement it in your own way. Just burn the book's name into people's subconcious. Like old-school racist propoganda.
Right, like diary, it'd make me look like an idiot going check out this book man, and then people would be all why'd you tell me to check out that granny book man you suck.
Diary wasn't that bad, stop whinging. I liked it. It was better than Choke, which was just "look at me I have sex more than you with sexy prison chicks and dirty sluts" it was like self-concious porn.
i read choke out loud in rehab, we pretended to have na meetings seperate from the others and i'd just read
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Not a bad thought, but most people will think it’s a flyer, so destined for the trash five seconds later. The average attention span equates to a virgin Terrier hyped up on meth, so you'd have to make it shorter than a full-fledged letter, and off the bat give a good reason [I]why they should read it[/I]. I don't know, maybe suggest you're their long lost relative: like biological mother, father, brother, cat, or put in the header “don’t read this.” That always works, right?
[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde;948009]Not a bad thought, but most people will think it’s a flyer, so destined for the trash five seconds later. The average attention span equates to a virgin Terrier hyped up on meth, so you'd have to make it shorter than a full-fledged letter, and off the bat give a good reason [I]why they should read it[/I]. I don't know, maybe suggest you're their long lost relative: like biological mother, father, brother, cat, or put in the header “don’t read this.” That always works, right?[/QUOTE]
If a single person walks up to you, one piece of paper in their hand, and they approach you and say, "I wrote you a letter." with sad eyes and say, "Please read it." and then walk off. You're not going to throw it away. Also - no pictures, black font and white paper - they're not going to think it's a flier. You could go one step further and put it in an envelope. It's all about delivery. If you look at them, singley, and walk towards them with no other letters then it should be a weird enough occurance for them to read it. The idea is not to stand around like you're handing out fliers, but to walk and search for your target.
Obviously you'll fold the piece of paper, or maybe even put it in an envelope. This is really up to the writer themselves. I'm trying to allow for a bit of variety in these escapades.
[QUOTE=morey;947878]i read choke out loud in rehab, we pretended to have na meetings seperate from the others and i'd just read[/QUOTE]
Heh, and everyone would just listen?
Anyway, I'm going out tomorrow to hand out letters and promote Chuck, even if everyone else is going to be lazy about it and just stick links in their myspace page.
[QUOTE=corellion;948132]Heh, and everyone would just listen?[/QUOTE]Sure, sometimes it was bit porno though, it was so much not what we were supposed to be doing.
Reading porno is hardly breaking the idea of rehab though, unless the porn was about drugs and booze.
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[QUOTE=corellion;948486]Reading porno is hardly breaking the idea of rehab though, unless the porn was about drugs and booze.[/QUOTE]
12 atep meetings are sacred your only supposed to read literature that is sanctified by or from the big book.
That's crap, you should riot!
I wanna get my friends together, decorate one of our cars with Just Married (and put in a Rant, Chuck Palahniuk somewhere), and dress up in wedding dresses and tuxes and cruise... good promotion right there perhaps and a load of fun! Even better, get 2 cars decked out in Just Married gear. Good idea no?
I live in New York...I think if I tried that here, people would assume there was Anthrax in the letter...and possibly injure me.
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Why do I love this idea so much?! Please tell us how it goes, corellion.
Gotta love how no one has posted anything they've done (mind you I haven't yet either)
[QUOTE=corellion;947873]Diary wasn't that bad, stop whinging. I liked it. It was better than Choke, which was just "look at me I have sex more than you with sexy prison chicks and dirty sluts" it was like self-concious porn.[/QUOTE]
Choke is actually my favourite Chuck book. I still haven't read diary, surviver, or haunted.. but I absulutely adore Choke! (I also haven't read the non-fiction stuff).
And I've read certain parts and chapters of it to many of my friends who have absulutely loved it. However some found it rather grafic. I read a part of it to a friend on the weekend who needs a book for this english assignment, and I made him read a chapter of choke, and now he asked me to borrow that. I'll give it to him after I get is signed...
I did my part for this thread
I hit some guy behind the knees with a baseball bat and while they were laying on the ground crying for the police I threw one of those Just married bumper stickers at them then ran off
Back when I worked in retail I would write poems on post-it-notes and when customers were sliding their cards and entering their pin numbers or otherwise not looking i would stick the poems in their bag on the item, sure to see it.
No customer ever got the same poem, either.
This sort of reminded me of that.
I think I'm going to do the letter thing just for fun.
well, i thought about this pretty cool mischief
you go to a drive thru and order a coke, then change it to sprite, then to coke and finally to sprite again.
when u recieve the sprite, give a little taste then yell: I SAID COKE U BITCH/ASSHOLE! then throw it at him/her.
another one would be to get a pickup truck and get three guys to open three different colored paint buckets while on the back part of the truck.then just let the paint fall to the concrete while the truck is moving and leave three lines of paint. try to make them long so that the gov't wont want to clean it.
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Its so easy to speak for the dead.
I would do something but what if Rant isn't very good?
I'd be embarrassed