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After eight months of serving as a journalist, a script writer, a videographer and a thousand other menial occupations I managed to sit myself down this evening to write out a draft of the first piece of fiction I have attempted to write in nearly a year.

What a lovely disaster. A tale of women, wine and song that ends in the most nihilistic manner...
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Budget approved. I'm completely stoked.

Plus the additive: "How would you like to become a permanent employee of our label?"

Yes, I would.

We shook on it.

I am getting paid to do what I love at 23. This will be the first time i consider myself blessed.

It's is hard to make a story board when you can't draw. I, cannot draw.

So my story boards have a lot of words on them that say "this is a . . . ", because it looks like it was drawn by a drunk second grader.

I have been asked by a record label to make a music video. Who is in?

(Note, just...
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The line for the moment is

". . .a quick fix for everlasting longing."


Think.

Apparently sex in a bathtub gives you street cred. Without it, you will never be able to become a Doctor of Journalism.

Wiki that.

I am thinking about boxing*.


*that is, the boxing that involves a ring and a pair of gloves. Not the kind of boxing that one usually does prior to a move***


***I've been really into footnotes lately.

When I worked EMS as a volunteer with Joe so many years ago, the moral of the story was that there's really nothing you can do until people call you for help.

Yes, I helped move a 1200 pound woman. But only after she called us.

Yes, I drove a woman 90 miles to the nearest hospital to have a maggot infestation removed from her...
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Today a guy stopped me on the sidewalk and started giving me this sales pitch about how Kimberly Clark is destroying some ancient rain forest. He was wearing a Greenpeace shirt and had a long pony tail and a three-day beard. Hippie, but not committed.

He drags me into his pitch and then says that I need to become a member.

I decline.

"Don't you...
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I decided that I need more lady friends who can accept gifts.

Every time a band gives me a shirt, they usually give me one more for "a friend" it is always a lady shirt, and it is always cooler than the shirt that I am mean to wear.