The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison--The Historically Inaccurate and Totally Fictitious Cyber Diaries of Everyone Worth Knowing

by Paul Davidson

An irreverent collection of fictional blogs, written in the spirits of famous figures, shares humorous insights into what they may have been thinking during crucial moments in history, from John Lennon's first encounter with Yoko Ono to the impact of a stray hot dog on Gandhi's hunger strike. By the author of Consumer Joe. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 8, 2006

About the author

Paul Davidson is an entertainment executive in Hollywood who also manages to find time to be a producer, screenwriter and four-time published author. Along the way he ran the digital entertainment division at a major tech company in Seattle whose name may or may not rhyme with Sycrosoft.

He lampooned corporate America in his first book Consumer Joe: Harassing Corporate America, One Letter at a Time and imagined what the world would have been like if historical figures had been able to blog in The Lost Blogs: From Jesus to Jim Morrison.

Most recently, he released his debut fiction novel The Small Stuff which Publisher’s Weekly called a “quirky debut rom-com” that was “sure to stick in readers’ minds.”

His writing has been featured in Wired, the Los Angeles Times and Mental Floss and he also hosts the film commentary podcast The Side Track.

Paul lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two daughters and an emotionally needy dog.

Reviews

[Jim Razinha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Paul Davidson is deliciously clever with this collection. Jesus, Morrison, Abbott & Costello, Lewis and Clark, Orvile & Wilbur, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Freud, Conan Doyle, Stevenson, take your pick!

Frida Kahlo blog testamonial for "Dumont’s XL-87 tweezers"! Davy Crockett blogging from the Alamo, asking his followers to help come up with "A rallying cry that will whip others into a frenzy in times of war and strife… I am not necessarily a wordsmith, but I have a few suggestions which I look to you to help spread:..." Crockett liked "'Ala-No no no no no!' That one’s pretty good if you ask me.")

Buster Keaton short entry: "At a loss for words, today. "

How about Alexander the Great's blog?

This is the greatest blog ever. I have seen other blogs and I must be honest in telling you all that this blog would crush all other blogs if they were given weapons and set against each other in a blog-like coliseum of sorts. In fact, if this blog was unarmed and was put face-to-face in a battle with other blogs that were all given some kind of heavy weapon, this blog would still destroy all other blogs. That’s a pretty great blog (one that can destroy other armed blogs with its bare hands) if you ask me which you probably are asking at this very moment, which is why I’ve answered. Because had I not answered, well, this blog would not be as great as we all know it is.

Sound like anyone nowhere-near-as-great from the Twit-erverse?? Brilliant!

One more snippet to whet the appetite: Ben Franklin, waking up with singed eyebrows...

But what is UP with this whole cloth string key thing? I don’t know if any of you saw me out partying it up last night but if you did and you can tell me what the hell I ended up doing last night , do me a big one and e-mail me. Seriously. Man, my head is friggin’ throbbing right now. Oh, ...

Funny and, as I said, deliciously clever.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

We've all read history books and, in some cases, biographies and autobiographies of famous historical figures. Whether or not what we've read is at all interesting is up to personal interpretation. But what if we were to hear the voices of famous people from history speaking in a medium that most of them never lived to see? I'm talking about blogs -- also known as "web logs" or online journals. This is what Paul Davidson gives us in his newest offering, some insight into the lives of hundreds of famous and infamous characters from throughout history speaking to us through their personal online journals. And the results are hilarious. From John Lennon's first encounter with the overly inquisitive Yoko Ono and David and Goliath comment spamming each other to Abner Doubleday griping about the boredom factor inherent in baseball and Moses moblogging ("mobile blogging") the crossing of the Red Sea using his cell phone... there is something for everyone in this book. Even those personas that you know nothing about (for me it was Jane Austen) are fun to read and, if anything, make you want to learn a little more about them in order to gain some context on why these posts would have been written in the first place. And isn't learning what reading is all about anyway? At least with this book, it's fun.

[Ed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not nearly as amusing as I'd expected. In fact, the premise wears thin after a few entries. But I managed some chuckles and some smiles.

[Gina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, really funny. There were a couple of instances where the blogs got repetitive & tedious. But Shakespeare outline the plot of "Dude, where's my car" overrode any criticism.

[cristina dowdle · Rating 4 out of 5]

So creative & funny!