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Michael Thomas Ford shares with you the inner workings of his poorly-wired mind. This morning I received an email from the Indiegogo folks. According to them, my gogofactor is DOWN. Your gogofactor, they explain, isn't just based on how well your campaign is doing, but also on how much people are talking about you and your campaign. You know, on buzz. Did you know that buzzability is an actual word? This is terrifying. I can barely handle impactful. Now I have to be buzzable. I also apparently have no Klout. Klout is the latest social media tool designed to humiliate you, this time by somehow looking at your online activity and determining, on a scale of 1-100, how influential you are. A friend suggested I see how much Klout I have (you know, since My Klout score is 10. I think they give you a 10 just for being online. According to the good people at Klout, Rice Krispies are more Listen, people. This is not okay. What is this, time to pick sides for dodge ball in 8th grade gym clas*? Thanks a lot, Klout. days left. To make this thing happen, that means we need to bring in about $287 a day between now and November 01. That's what, 8.2 EVERYONE. And I mean everyone. Make LILY buzzable. Start buzzing.  Because if this doesn't happen, I'm going to be sad. We're all going Day 10? What, you might be asking, happened to days 4 through 9? Well, a couple of things. I got the flu (again). The truck died. One of the dogs was sick. Some other unpleasant stuff got in the way. Frankly, I was a little depressed and decided to watch bad horror films instead of be my usual perky self. But I don't want to talk about that. I want to talk about Lena Dunham. Book circles are buzzing about the $3.7 million advance Dunham nominations this year. So yay for her. That's impressive. She also seems really nice. But this advance. Oy, this advance. I have also been published by Random House. They're home to my Jane Austen-as-modern-day-vampire series. And I can tell you this--I didn't get $3.7 million for those books. I was really happy with what they did give me, but probably not