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ways_back_room2008-10-19 04:03 pm
theflyingsquirl) wrote in ways_back_room2008-10-19 04:03 pm
Get your political satire on!
Way back in the spring, and in the spirit of his canon (where he was heavily involved in the then-current presidential election), I decided to have the Squirrel campaign-manage the supervillains' political party, the Evilcrats, in their bid for the presidency. Little did I know, when I started, that a) the actual political campaign would get so surreal that trying to stay recognizably over-the-top and evil is increasingly hard to do, and b) I would be a volunteer with an actual campaign and thus have even less time for writing as election day approaches.
I really don't want to still be writing political-campaign stuff after the election, so I'm asking for a bit of help which will let me skip over what would otherwise have been a few weeks of posts. It'll be fun, or at least not painful. :)
I need people to pose as taxpayers, journalists, rival campaigns--anything, really. I've put up a post over here, and you are invited to go tag in with questions or comments or attack ads that the Squirrel will have to face in his condensed campaign for governor. There is a dossier here if you'd like to have background on him and his campaign, but keep in mind that this is a satirical campaign in a superhero-parody universe, so go as crazy as you want with it.
Have a first-grader in Altoona ask him about foreign policy; have an old man in Lancaster ask what he plans to do on the important topic of keeping damn kids off lawns; have a rival candidate run an ad accusing him of secretly being some foreign species of rodent. What would the staff of Mad Scientists Quarterly or Teen Celebrities and Fashion Monthly or Family and Crafts for Women or Bikinis, Cars and Explosions or The Government is Out to Get You have to say to him? The dumbest thing you have ever heard someone ask a candidate or celebrity, or the question you secretly wish someone would ask a candidate--anything you want, put it in there and he will answer. Ask as many or as few as you want; ask follow-ups, just remember that it's a satire in a parody universe.
It'll be open all week, and be linked up in the bar on Friday, most likely. Again, IC questions go here, and I'm happy to answer OOC questions if you've got any.
The sooner I get this plot done, the sooner Hedwig can come back. :D ?
I really don't want to still be writing political-campaign stuff after the election, so I'm asking for a bit of help which will let me skip over what would otherwise have been a few weeks of posts. It'll be fun, or at least not painful. :)
I need people to pose as taxpayers, journalists, rival campaigns--anything, really. I've put up a post over here, and you are invited to go tag in with questions or comments or attack ads that the Squirrel will have to face in his condensed campaign for governor. There is a dossier here if you'd like to have background on him and his campaign, but keep in mind that this is a satirical campaign in a superhero-parody universe, so go as crazy as you want with it.
Have a first-grader in Altoona ask him about foreign policy; have an old man in Lancaster ask what he plans to do on the important topic of keeping damn kids off lawns; have a rival candidate run an ad accusing him of secretly being some foreign species of rodent. What would the staff of Mad Scientists Quarterly or Teen Celebrities and Fashion Monthly or Family and Crafts for Women or Bikinis, Cars and Explosions or The Government is Out to Get You have to say to him? The dumbest thing you have ever heard someone ask a candidate or celebrity, or the question you secretly wish someone would ask a candidate--anything you want, put it in there and he will answer. Ask as many or as few as you want; ask follow-ups, just remember that it's a satire in a parody universe.
It'll be open all week, and be linked up in the bar on Friday, most likely. Again, IC questions go here, and I'm happy to answer OOC questions if you've got any.