Don't go to my old domain for Dire Literary Series

Repeat: Don't go to my website

Last July I purposefully decided to let the domain direreader.com lapse because the domain was only to redirect people to a website I used for the LIVE version of the Dire Literary Series. That original website can still be found at   https://heatcityreview.com/timothygagerdire.html

not at direreader.com

  But direreader.com is back, I have NOTHING to do with it, and it might be evil. Please don't go there. 

 What is found there? Brace yourself, is weird. It appears to be a tribute to the series, which ran for 18 years, but rather it is a rather complex AI version of that. Created by Ranchi Ellison (try googling, let me know he exists, because he smells of AI) allegedly creates a Literary Archive. According to direreader.com these sites are created to discover, preserve, and celebrate the power of diverse literary voices in our community. 

  What I found interesting interesting was the ARCHIVE bios of my features, where they gave perhaps 10 of the hundreds that I had. And also, the image of Steve Almond looks more like the way I used to look than Steve. See below, Timothy Almond Joy Gager. I guess doing all this makes them look legitimate.  

   Each author has a bio, a list of books and some shit about me. 

"Steve Almond was among the well-known authors who took part in the Dire Literary Series, founded by Timothy Gager. His appearance exemplified the series’ mission to pair nationally recognized voices with local writers, creating nights of literature that felt electric, unpolished, and real."

For Jeannette Angell it says

"Jeannette Angell brought something hard-earned to the Dire Literary Series. We may not know the night she stepped in, but her battered clarity, her courage to stay real—those are part of the archive’s pulse."

and John Amen

"John Amen’s participation in the Dire Literary Series—Timothy Gager’s Cambridge project—places him among those voices that helped shape that line between the personal and the profound. It doesn’t matter that we may lose the exact date; what matters is that he was there, and that his poems continue to ripple beyond that moment."

There is a place to CONTACT them, 

Join Our Literary Journey Today!but don't do it, it's probably to capture and sell your email to phising scammers. They also have a "phone number" which is to a restaurant in Cambridge.
It all feels strange, but what is scary is if they using my name and old series to benefit themselves. I tried to go to the FCC website to register a complaint of possible fraud and this popped up---thanks to Trump and the shutdown