many of us do not feel qualified to go after our own dreams. we ask ourselves: who am I to have a podcast? who am I to call myself creative? who am I to write a book? I'm only 23, what do I know? I'm already 66, isn't it too late? I don't have a PhD in this topic, so who am I to speak on it? I need to do more research before I am ready to talk about this.

One of the most powerful things you can do for your evangelical brand is become an expert in the End Times. This is called ecclesiology, which is Greek for the book of Ecclesiastes, which is a book that was written by Bing Crosby’s band The Byrds, who also did a song called “Mr. Tambourine Man” which was about Bob Dylan, Bob was the tambourine man, he got kicked out of a Church of Christ because the tambourine counts as a musical instrument, and that’s why he became Jewish for a while, but I think he’s Christian again.

[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription, shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com. And yes, I am available for speaking engagements.] I’m afraid the rumor is true: Taylor Alison Swift, the 34 year-old singer-songwriter who was recently named TIME’s Person of the Year and won her fourth Album of the Year gramophone yesterday, is, in fact, a highly successful psyop chiefly created by the Central Intelligence Agency.

I have a confession to make. When I first came up with the “You’ve Never Read…?!” gimmick last year, it was with this particular comic book run in mind. J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema are two legendary comic book creators. Just looking at their Marvel bibliography prior to their run together on Spectacular Spider-Man (which began in 1991) is astounding. DeMatteis had already had successful runs on Captain America and Defenders, and he wrote the “Fearful Symmetry” story (better known today as “Kraven’s Last Hunt”) that stretched across all three Spider-Man titles in 1987 that is widely regarded as one of the greatest Spider-Man stories ever written.

When you invest in a company at an early stage, there’s a risk there won’t be a return. When you’re a band or a label using a merch company you expect them to deliver and you aim for transparent communication. There’s a bunch of start-ups who aim to upset, change, and improve the way merch and distribution is run in the live music industry. Awesome Merchandise was one of them. They were, because they don’t exist anymore, they went into administration, or to put it differently, they went bankrupt.