It's Official...CCB is now having a major impact on world culture despite the blurred junk!

You know what I love about writing a blog that nobody reads? Eh, not much really. Well, that is, until I discover that it is actually influencing and impacting popular culture in ways that I would never have dreamed.

For instance, weeks ago, I found some of the CCB content was being pulled and put up on a web site in Israel. That’s when I began getting paranoid (even more so than I usually am) and started posting copyright notices every time I pushed a post to Facebook. But, when I stop and think about it, I guess it’s kind of flattering that anyone would think this drivel is worthy of re-posting anywhere, let alone Israel.

Curiously, I’ve been noticing a trend over the past couple of week on the internet regarding the legend of Goatman. You may recall that back in April, CCB explored Goatman as a phenomenon here in Oklahoma after the site NewOK.com published a story entitled “Five Strange Creatures that Call Oklahoma Home (Supposedly)”.

My point here (finally, you’re probably saying to yourself) is that I believe the uptick in internet buzz regarding Goatman (half-man, half-goat) sightings began about the same time Lassie, the barking goat, first appeared in CCB. Mere coincidence, you say?

If you’re an adherent (as I am) of what I refer to as the Zen of Gibbs (NCIS), then you know that rule 39 states, “There is no such thing as coincidence.” So, assuming that’s true (and Gibbs wouldn’t lead us astray), then someone is obviously reading more into these postings than they should be. After all, Lassie is a female goat.

Our friends at Huffington Post yesterday posted an article on their web site that stated (in part), “…Goatman sightings have spread across various news outlets within the past week, and the beast was even a trending topic on Facebook.”

Again, it appears we have Lassie, the barking goat, to thank for this.

The article gives a little insight into the background of the Goatman. It seems the stories grew from a legend about a scientist trying to combine a goat and a human. Things got out of hand and the creature escaped and roamed the streets of Maryland terrorizing its citizenry. Hmmmm…sounds just like the script for the original Frankenstein movie back in the ‘30’s.

Cousin Fred is concerned that this is a plot by whoever deposited the goats at Hefner Canal to flush us out and retrieve Lassie. I suggested that perhaps it was time to return Lassie to Hefner Canal, but Cousin Fred is having none of that. I do admit that Lassie seems to be a good goat, as goats go.

She hung in there with us as we were shooting our Bigfoot pilot in Colorado last week. Well, right up to the point where it disappeared down the trail off the mountain when we heard the Bigfoot bellow.

The editing phase of the pilot is going well. Friend Lamont is better at this than I had originally believed. There was a bit of a heated discussion yesterday when Cousin Fred and I debated whether we should blur out our naked participants’ “junk”…in the end I won out.

By my way of thinking, if this gets picked up by a network the parts will be blurred out anyway so it’s probably best that the final edited version of our pilot go to Chick Farris that way.

I’ll be very happy to get the pilot behind us. I have lots of different projects going on now, including a bound compilation of the 2015 CCB posts that will go to print in early 2016. I’m also working on the second book in the series of my novel (currently available from Kindle). Oh, and of course, the screenplay that I’m working on for the Twister Alley Film Festival in April.

All this, plus my day job as a mild-mannered reporter with the Daily Planet.

Sheesh, makes me tired just talking about it.

Oops, before I forget. I want to wish a very happy birthday and many more to come to the Brother-in-Law. Dang, he’s old.