3.5 readers, are you aware that in March, it will be the fourth anniversary of this exceptional blog?
That’s more years than I have readers.
Although you are all wonderful, I must admit that four years to gain such a paltry sum of readers wasn’t worth it.
I could continue this blog but lately, the issues of the day really weigh heavily on my mind and soul. So much fighting. So much disharmony and discord. So many problems in the world, so much unrest. So many people struggling, looking for hope and finding none.
I can no longer waste my time on writing fart jokes. Fart jokes are crass and they help no one. I must, instead, make a difference, so I have decided to start a new blog, one in which I will discuss the many important issues of the day. Further, I will reach out to experts from a variety of backgrounds to get their take on how the world might improve.
It’s getting harder and harder to keep bringing the 7 eyes of 3.5 readers to this wonderful site. Also, I’m no spring chicken.
I’m unsure of the future. Perhaps I will turn over the keys of BQB HQ to my arch-nemesis, the International War Criminal/Incredibly Boring Snow Monster, “The Yeti.”
Perhaps I will dump a bottle of hot sauce on my head, then go swimming in a shark tank.
Maybe I will ask Fergie to serenade me. No, scratch that. Fergie is a national treasure. Screw you all for making fun of that goddess. She brought us so much joy with her humps, surely we can spot her one error in judgment.
I think I’ll just lie down in my backyard. Watch the butterflies flap their wings and let caterpillars crawl all over me until the moss and grass just grow over me and consume me.
Perhaps none of that is necessary to not blog anymore. Or maybe I’ll sub-contract the blog out to some hired help. Maybe I’ll just watch movies and eat pizza and hire a team of sentient iguana typists to write this blog for me and I’ll pay them in flies.
I’m reaching a deadline to decide and I need your help as they are all so good I can’t pick one.
Let us refer to these as “Set 1” and “Options 1 and 2”
Let us refer to these as “Set 2” and Options 3 and 4
My thoughts:
I like the font in Set 1, Option 2 where “Battler” is curved. I like how his hand is covering “Bookshelf.” However, I have little faith in people’s abilities and worry maybe they won’t get it and won’t be able to read my name because the hand is covering it.
Part of me wants to go with Set 1, Option 1, and have the text read “Bookshelf Q. Battler” instead of “Bookshelf Battle” in that block print. Ultimately, this is going to be my author photo on Amazon and Social Media so it needs to say “Bookshelf Q. Battler.” Notice though that his abs are white whereas his upper torso is blue. The problem the artist faced was that if he made the abs blue it would conflict into the blue “Bookshelf” print. So he made the abs white. I worried people might not notice and think that he just forgot to fill in the stomach but then again the abs are drawn in with a little six pack. Most superhero costumes are one color though I suppose it isn’t impossible for a superhero to wear a costume with a blue upper body and white stomach.
Set 2, Option 4 fixes the stomach problem by filling the stomach in with a different, darker shade of blue. The orange is nice. For some reason, I feel like the abs get lost in the dark blue though. And I wonder if the white lettering isn’t better than the orange. But then again, is the orange catchier. I don’t know.
VOTE!
For me, I think it is basically down to Set 1, Option 1 vs Set 2, Option 4. I’m banging my head against the wall though because I feel like to pick one I lose the other and I worry whatever I pick I’ll wish I had picked the other.
So give me some insight.
If it helps to know what I’ll use this for – I’m going to put it in the introduction section of all my books and in my social media and as my author photo so imagine it being used for that.
Ahh, bookshelfbattle.com – it’s my virtual space, my online hangout, my digital stomping grounds.
If you’re reading this, you’ve already visited. Congratulations. You’ve shown excellent judgment and are no doubt a person of great wisdom and fantastic, upstanding moral character.
If you’re not reading this then…well, that’s messed up because if you’re not reading this then how could you be reading this? #MindBlown
From BQB HQ in East Randomtown, USA, where all the BQB blog magic happens, its the Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Visit BookshelfBattle.com
#10 – You’re already here, so if you leave, it’s kind of rude.
Stick around awhile. Take off your coat. Have a drink. Eat a cookie. Click on a hundred links on this blog while you’re at it.
#9 – It Will Keep You Off Crack
Do I have any medical or scientific studies to prove the claim that visiting this fine website prevents people from taking crack? No.
Are you taking crack while you’re reading this? (Consults my Magic 8 ball.) “All signs point to ‘No.'”
Therefore, whenever you read this website and don’t take crack while you are reading it…you’re welcome.
#8 – You Can Laugh
Or, learn what doesn’t make people laugh. I mean, I think it’s all funny but I admit, I could just be stuck in my own personal bubble, oblivious to the opinions, thoughts and feelings of others.
It’s a good way to be, come to think of it. Who has time to deal with the opinions, thoughts and feelings of others, especially when mine are the best and really, all that matters?
#7 – You Might Learn Something
Occasionally, this blog gets quasi-educational. You might learn something but note the key word – “might.”
#6 – You’ll Be One of the First Few Humans to Make Contact with an Outer Space Alien
Alien Jones his no joke. He’s from space. Want to make all those losers who made fun of you in high school jealous? Being one of the first few people to comment on an alien’s column is a good way to start.
#5 – Fart jokes.
So many fart jokes.
#4 – Nerds Welcome
No one can give you a wet willy, a wedgie, or a purple nurple here…because, you know, it’s a blog in an intangible written form.
#3 – BQB Will Think You’re Awesome
I really will.
#2 – You’ll Help BQB Save the World from the Mighty Potentate
The more clicks I get, the more likely the Potent One will get off of Earth’s back.
#1 – You Can Be One of BQB’s 3.5 Readers!
Truly, the most exclusive club out there. Do you know of any other clubs with only 3.5 participants?
In case you’re not up to speed on your Bookshelf Battle history, this blog is the best blog ever created about a magic bookshelf caretaker who spends his days toiling away at Beige Corporation, the world’s premiere producer of beige products and accessories, and his nights at BQB HQ, fighting the forces of evil and writing books to appease the maniacal alien overlord known as the Mighty Potentate.
:::deep breath:::
If you can find a better blog about a magic bookshelf caretaker who spends his days toiling away at Beige Corporation, the world’s premiere producer of beige products and accessories, and his nights at BQB HQ, fighting the forces of evil and writing books to appease the maniacal alien overlord known as the Mighty Potentate…then you’re welcome to check it out.
Or better yet, allow my spokeswoman to explain what this fine blog is all about:
BQB here, channeling my inner Vinny Baggadouchio and asking if my blog sucks. Does it suck?
If it does suck, what are some ways in which I can make it not suck?
If it does not suck, why do you think it does not suck?
Personally, I feel it needs more organization because my posts get buried in the blogroll whereas there might be some gems from the past that people might like to check out.
Also, in retrospect, I’m not sure that “Bookshelf Q. Battler” was the catchiest of pen names to choose, but after investing three years into it, I’m not sure it is wise to start over from scratch with something else.
Also, this blog is supposed to be, in part, a chronicle of my BQB adventures yet I feel like I never have the time to tell you all about the amazing nerd adventures I have been on. Would you read them if I did? People don’t seem to read stories on blogs, I have been noticing. So in that regard, perhaps this idea for a blog was dumb but again after three years, I feel like I just can’t cut bait and run. Who knows if another blog idea would do any better?
Thoughts? Thank you 3.5. Also, why haven’t you 3.5 readers become 3,500.5 readers yet? What are you waiting for? What can I do to make this happen?
