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The question is
often asked, "Who is Clifton R. Livingstone and
why would anyone want to read his memoirs"? The
answer is simple. The Books are about the message
and the messenger is about the last thing you
should be thinking about. Check out some of
the excerpts from above and you'll get the idea
quickly enough.
Crazier than Pecos
Bill, more impossible than Baron Munchausen, The
CliffR Project is the wildest most unlikely romp
of memoirs you will ever likely encounter. And
it's all real.
Who else would
turn down McDonalds for all of Canada, twice. Who
else almost caused a Air Force acrobatic Jet team
to have a collective heart attach because they
thought he had teleported forty five hundred miles
right under their very noses.
Or who else has a
signed 'thank you' letter on official White House
stationary from both the then President of the
United States, Bill Clinton, and then Vice
President Al Gore, and was also on welfare.
And who else sold
flowers in bars and restaurants at the age of
sixty five to keep the money coming in, and
co-owns a four million dollar web name which was
waiting for the courts to give it back after
somebody stole it.
Who else?? There
are hundreds and hundreds of stories. And they are
all hilarious, unlikely, or just completely nuts,
covering all walks of life. Some are so outright
unbelievable it’s almost impossible to imagine
they are all one hundred percent true. Some are
even out and out uncanny.
The book is called
'The CliffR Project', a catchword for a task the
writer set upon himself years ago to not end up on
a cot at the Sally Ann by the age of sixty five.
And then would you believe it, at the age of sixty
five he actually lived exactly six blocks up the
street from the stupid place and exactly half a
block down the street from Canada's all new
multi-million dollar US embassy.
Often whimsical
and irreverent the autobiography is always
alluring and enduring. It is also often
philosophical and coy and could just as easily
been called ‘What are the odds’, 'Life is like a
kosher burrito’, or ‘Murphy's got my number',
because they all sum up what’s been going with
this guy’s crazy life at every turn.
Like the fact that
sixty five, he had to back to selling roses
through bars and restaurants for groceries and
rent because the valuable Internet domain name
Look.com was piked by rogue partners. Like how
many other high end executives do you know who
would stuff a bunch of roses in a vase and hit the
bars when the going gets rough.
Don't believe it?
You need to read the sample exerpts at the top,
specially Book 6.
By the time
you've finished you should realize that the writer
is anything but your normal guy down the street
and that this book is anything but your standard
bowl of corn flakes. With an identical twin
brother 'Greydie', thrown in on some of the
stories, it's double the trouble and three times
the fun.
I've also just discovered at the end of
September 2008, that the Registrar of one of my
domain names has it bringing up a sleazy porno
site without my knowledge or consent. If you check
the Whois record for the domain name you will see
that I am the owner. That's character
assassination of the worst kind, because if you
know me at all you know that of all the things on
the planet that I am, the one thing that I'm not
is a pornographer. And the company has no defence
for its action. So just like that, right on track,
the book continues to write itself.
The CliffR
Project in all is
six volumes, which are being published two at a
time as though a TV miniseries. The first two are
ready for sale. For media types, the books are
free for review though the media link to the right
Hopefully you will like them enough to make it
your next front page story.
If you are not
with the media, then hopefully you will like them
well enough to tell your family and friends.
Or blog it to pieces on your blog. Or put up a
sign on your front lawn. Or if you run an web site
or publish an ezine, please stick in a slick
mention.
Look.com isn't
back yet and it isn't heh, heh, looking good, as
the full account below testifies. In the meantime,
the idea that the writer was going to put up under
website
www.look.com has
been put up for the time being under website
www.wholelook.com for your laughing pleasure.
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