Big Pop Balloons Week 2

For those who have been wondering where these balloons all over FB are leading to here's a look at an interview with their author Mere Celeste:

P: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honour to introduce today’s guest. The author of ‘Big Pop Balloons,’ the top selling writer and trendsetting artist of all time. A man who according to the latest polls is the most popular man on earth, more popular than Jesus and the Pope and the President of the USA. Give a large round of applause and welcome Mere Celeste.

M: Thank you. It is an honour.

P: What fired your inspiration to write ‘Big Pop Balloons?’

M: We are all numbed by repeated disappointments.

P: What do you mean by that?

M: Disappointment leads to despair and despair leads to action.

P: What disappointment? What despair?

M: We start with nothing. Very often we find ourselves at the end of nothing.

P: But now you are a very successful author, a celebrity in your own right.

M: That is elementary my dear Watson.

P: What is?

M: Popularity and the number of likes on your page. All a fad. Indeed a big pop balloon.

P: So what in essence is a big pop balloon?

M: We are but balloons and such is our fate. Shrivelled we wait for the air to blow us up. This whole universe is a balloon. As it inflates it nears its end.

P: Yes a well known quote from your book, but why is it a fad?

M: As I have implied, a balloon is bound to burst and when it goes pop, all that’s left is empty stale nothing.

P: But you cannot be so pessimistic, not with so many readers and fans around the world.

M: We blow up balloons for others to see as they rise up in the air. We all have our reasons for doing so. Colourful balloons for people to like. We are prepared to do anything in order for others to like our balloon.

P: What is it that you have done. 

M: Same as others have done before me. Make sure that people read about it in the magazines and newspapers, parade it on their TV screens and tablet monitors.

P: I agree, but how can one attract the media to your balloon?

M: Colour is key.

P: Which colour?

M: Scandal, atrocity, death, violence. Indeed popularity depends on the number of hits, a clever choice of vocabulary. Hit me, hit me! If a balloon gets a million hits, it must be worth those million likes. It must be like Jesus, like the Pope, like Lady Gaga, Like the President of the United Skates of Superpower. Yes it must be cool, very cool for so many unseen, unknown hands have clicked on it unthinkingly but positively.

P: Granted, but it has helped to make you popular.

M: A sorry picture of modern man it makes. A chain reaction that makes sheep out of men and a goat herd out of the one who filled the balloon with his stinking breath.

P: Why do you paint such a sad picture?

M: Life has become a fantasy world of big pop balloons, bright in lettered message, meant for the population to read and believe as the truth. A killer of question marks, a stifler of debate.

More of this interview to be published next week. 

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