After many long weeks of book, film and speaking events where I received innumerable hugs, handshakes and backslaps from fans who openly expressed their desire to help support my work and to see my voice amplified to shrill and deafening, yet operatic proportions – wishing, in essence, to set down their torches and pitchforks and tip me sideways and use the point of my head as a battering ram against all the closed doors of fear and complacency currently corroding our stupefyingly arrogant empire of illusion – I’m here to announce that I will be launching a Mr. Fish Patreon account on Sunday, April 1st!
What is Patreon? Well, according to Wikipedia, which knows every-fucking-thing, it’s a membership platform that provides business tools for creators to run a subscription content service, as well as ways for artists to build relationships and provide exclusive experiences to their subscribers, or “patrons.” (The specific rewards and incentives will be listed on my Patreon page when it’s launched.) In other words, it is a place where you’ll be able to help morally support and/or subsidize my efforts to piss off prudes, scumbags and intolerant conservative (and some liberal) assholes and get access to special content unavailable on clowncrack. You’ll also be funding – and this was supposed to be a big surprise but I’m too excited about it to keep it to myself – a brand new Mr. Fish WEB SERIES! Dig that!
Anyway, wanted to start the countdown and tell you to go here on Sunday, April 1st, partly because it’ll be a new place where you can interact with me and partly because there are some rewards and incentives that have limited space available and I want my clowncrack chums to have first crack at those – BAM! Things are about to become really interesting!
Here’s a taste of some of the behind-the-scenes crap I’ll be sharing on Patreon:
Why we love you Mr. Fish….
1540s, ridyculouse, from Latin ridiculus “laughable, funny, absurd,” from ridere “to laugh” (see risible). Shakespeare and other 17c. writers sometimes spelled it rediculous. Slang extensions to “outrageous” (1839); “excellent” (1959, jazz slang). Related: Ridiculously; ridiculousness. In the sense “concerned with jokes,” Latin had ridicularius.
I am excited. Please put on your helmet!
You’re ridiculous.