So the adventure is over and now I can put behind me various delusions about the magical mysteries of the broader world. The truth is nobody knows much of anything about how things go. The world is powered by varying degrees of bullshit and that’s just how it is.
I’ll have some pictures to prove I did in fact distribute flyers at SxSW, although in the most self-defeating of fashions. I merely scattered them about to mingle with other sundry piles of disposable promotional materials.
The whole conference was like a swag feeding frenzy. The smart ones knew to toss all but what seemed to have some genuinely valuable content. Everything else might contain some deeper swag potential, some free promotion or some such.
My best swag in this department is from lulu.com, who allow me to run off one free copy of my book, which is incentive enough to get the whole thing typed in and into a pdf. Then I’ll send it off to Nathan in Wichita. The way I see it, I owe it to my friends to follow through on this much. That way, I can make it available on my site in case anyone wants a copy and it really doesn’t matter to me what else happens.
I can move on to Napoleon.
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