facebook & google+ status updates part VII

The number is always unlisted, the caller's voice always bland and pleasant. They are with the Company, and they offer you enlightenment for 5 easy payments: the deaths of the five people you care about least in all the world.
I know it's shocking. Only five?!

12K into sequel of exorcism story. Via it:
"There are some lines we don't cross even in the name of good, perhaps especially in that. If people aren't free to make mistakes then they aren't free at all."

"What do you mean, why am I wearing a black armband? What else is Black Friday for?"

Full disclosure: I automatically distrust any article that seems to think it has to include the phrase 'full disclosure'.

From WIP:
"You could tell her, 'I tried to love you, but it turned out you were you, so I couldn't'?" Damien offered.

Plagiarized from myself (via notes for current novel) to use in it:
"History is mutable in cities, less so in towns."

Unaired 60 minutes interview footage:
"Of course kids have to want things this season. If they don't want gifts, think of all the elves who'd be out of work." Santa laughed his deep trademark laugh. "It's not like they can go back to being munkchins. Why don't parents ever think of the elves?"

TV laughtracks are composed of the laughter of ghosts, because the dead really do watch over us and all they can bring themselves to do is laugh.

Nightcare: A daycare for vampire kids.

From notes for an Unknown Armies campaign (rumours for the PCs to encounter) ...
* N-Rays exist, only we call them X-rays. What’s really inside us isn’t what we see on film.
* You hear the one about the cat lady eaten by her cats? Truth is they all want the cats to eat them: it’s how cats gain human speech.
* Being on a Reality TV Show will drive you insane: what leaves the show isn't the person who joined but something else eager to get back into the world.
* The world is ruled by 300 white guys but they all live in cardboard boxes: it is their death-throes that cause the markets to change.

We unmake words with smiles; we unmake worlds with laughs.

When writing a short story that includes: 'Ever seen a superhero cry into his beer?' it is probably not  a good thing to write 'bear' instead. Though it would make the story a lot funnier if I left that in.

There is no such thing as clowns. If you think you've seen a clown, you haven't. Don't think too much about it or they will know.

Thoughts on christmas and giving: when is an open wallet the sign of a closed mind?

He called, wanting to get back together. But she said: "It's okay. I'm okay. It's better like this. I get so much more done with my day."

"We must stop the AIs. Do we have enough cat videos on youtube to slow down the invasion, sergeant?"

You can't tell people you made a doll out of them if they know what voodoo is.

He says, "I didn't mean to."
He says, "I thought I could hide it."
He smiles weakly, and: "We can get the stains out of the carpet, right?"

"Love," the demon says, "is such a glorious blasphemy; in it you even forget your God." He reaches a hand that moves as slow as his smile. "But not us. Never us. Why is that, do you know?"

What if every image you have saved on your computer could be used against you in a court of law?

I bought a dog. I thought it could help make the world a better place. But it needs me ... so much.

We are the last. There is no one left. We tried to warn