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Gross Food Challenge

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I have a YouTube channel. Well, my daughter (Kassidy) and I have a YouTube channel.

For the past two years we’ve been writing a kids book together called Tommy, God of the Island of Wonder, which we finally completed a few weeks ago. It’s a comedy about a boy called Tommy who, having just blown out his birthday candles, opens his eyes to find himself stranded on an island. This is The Island of Wonder; a testing ground for wishes. There he meets The Disco Voodoo King who teaches Tommy how to make wishes and tries to guide him to his perfect wish. Things get out of hand, The Disco Voodoo King is driven to despair, and Tommy learns nothing.

It has been sent out to two agents so far but I will be sending the manuscript out in earnest this week. Fingers crossed. I look forward to collecting a mountain of rejection slips! We just need one to say yes! Just one.

Back to YouTube. What better way to introduce you to Kassidy than a video of her being forced to eat disgusting food?

 

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Beware the Korean Spies

Korean Spies

This is a bit weird. I was on YouTube about 45 minutes ago, wisely debunking the crazy conspiracy theories of internet nutcases, when The Republic of Korea started spying on me.

I commented on a video called Alien Humanoids Attend Kim Jong Il’s Funeral? 2011. If you have a look at the video on YouTube my comment is the one at the top (Kassidy Andy is my YouTube name). You will notice that I clearly and rationally proved that tall people are not aliens and that camera crews are quite capable of walking out of shot. You see, I solved the case, disproved the conspiracy, the video can now be removed from the internet and this whole thing can be forgotten.

But now, as I mentioned, Korea appears to be watching me. (Maybe I’m making things worse by talking about this in the very place they are checking up on me?). About 10 minutes after I made that comment on YouTube my WordPress Blog got viewed by someone in the Republic of Korea…

You see, now I’m just sounding like a conspiracy nut.

Here is a picture of my WordPress stats page –

Korean Stats

You see, I’m telling the truth. But what does it all mean? If the two things are connected, (it could just be a very fluky coincidence), how did they know about the blog? It is not connected in any way to my YouTube page. It must be a coincidence. For some reason someone in Korea just came across my blog just after I wrote about Korean Aliens on YouTube. Weird though. What do you think?