Welcome to my World
Check it out people...
You know I try to stay hip for the kids and I love to see myself type, so I thought I'd set up a blog.
This is the first time I've been in a new city, with LITERALLY no acquaintances. When I moved from Buffalo to DC in 2000, I had a crew of old classmates there to welcome me and some distant family if push came to shove. When I stayed in Atlanta last summer I had a slew of friends to check. But here, I'm truly on my own...So it's a fairly new experience.
Which brings me to the reasons I set this up:
1) It's a way to keep in touch with everyone and let you know what's good with me.
2) At least one time per week I get myself into a situation or eyewitness an encounter that I find either hilarious or outrageous. Now I can recount these stories to everyone. And since my job sends me to peculiar places and I meet so many different characters, I should never run out stories.
Or they could be stories as mundane as recounting a nice restuarant I went to; or salacious, such as revealing that I saw Steve Francis french-kissing his coach in the Orlando Magic shower (that did not happen).
3) I also want this to be somewhat of an inside look at a young writer's first couple years in the industry: the editors, the assignments, the quest to move up to bigger markets or the years spent in small market purgatory, the people you meet, mistakes you make and the triumphs as well.
I want to be an author at some point, so maybe someday I'll turn these next couple years into my first book.
4) And finally this will be a space where I can pontificate on anything from sports to social issues to entertainment to family to friends.
Some of the submissions may even entail some personal introspection (Did I just make that word up? It sounds like a word that a wannabe-smart dumb person would spit out).
Or I may just be writing to vent.
Speaking of venting...
There is this young girl, maybe 18-20-years-old, that works at the Hollywood Video in Winter Park -- a wealthy suburb just northeast of downtown Orlando. I go there a lot lately because I'm catchin up on two television series, 24 and Arrested Development, so I rent their season DVDs. However, I usually kop a movie when I go there too.
Well, this bimbo (sorry for the misogyny ladies) makes it her habit to comment on my DVD selections all the time. Mind you this the type of young "lady" that will file her nails while you wait at the register for at least 30 seconds. Plus she belches and she's dumb loud...'ignant' I suppose. She's type of broad that would probably stand in front of a mirror butt-naked and start doing the Tootsie Roll.
Back to her hair-brained critiques...I go to kop Ray and they're all out, so granted, I'm a little upset...but I keep it cool.
But she has to go and say, "I don't know why you wanna see that dumb movie anyway."I'm like, "Do you know who Ray Charles is?"She says, "Yeah that blind piano-man. He dead though" (only she says 'dough' instead of 'though', because of course she refuses to pronounce her TH's)
I say, "Well you know your boy Foxx has won and been nominated for a bunch of awards. It's supposed to be a good movie and Ray is a legend...you should get up on that."
She says, "Yeah whatever, I'm just tryin to get out of here so I can get me some Steak-n-Shake." I guess she thought she was being cute.
This, however, was after last week when she was trying to clown me for kopping Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; which was probably the fourth time she had some slick comment about my movie-tastes.So minding my own b.i. I picked up the Star Wars DVD pack -- the one with Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I checked it out for a second and then set it back on the counter...Here she goes again..."I know right?" she says.
I'm thinking to myself "No...What do you know."
Then she says, "I don't know who they think they foolin' chargin' folk $50 for them stupid movies."
At this point, I've had close to enough. So I say, "These are classic movies. I can't believe you don't like Star Wars. Do you at least like the prequels?"
She says, "Nope. Them stupid too...All that space and ships and stuff...that's stupid."So I just asked her, "If you could see one movie in this place, what would it be?"...
She says, "'The Cookout'".
I was spent after that comment.
This week I'm just gonna kop "Soul Plane" or "Scream 3" and wait for her kudos.
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Meanwhile:I'm not too familiar with the blog setup yet, but I'm hoping I will be able to manipulate an area for people to post comments.
I'm not the most punctual or conscientious dude on the planet, but my every intention is to post a submission every Sunday and send out an email to everyone alerting them. I also may post random submissions throughout the week.
With that said, welcome to my blog.
You know I try to stay hip for the kids and I love to see myself type, so I thought I'd set up a blog.
This is the first time I've been in a new city, with LITERALLY no acquaintances. When I moved from Buffalo to DC in 2000, I had a crew of old classmates there to welcome me and some distant family if push came to shove. When I stayed in Atlanta last summer I had a slew of friends to check. But here, I'm truly on my own...So it's a fairly new experience.
Which brings me to the reasons I set this up:
1) It's a way to keep in touch with everyone and let you know what's good with me.
2) At least one time per week I get myself into a situation or eyewitness an encounter that I find either hilarious or outrageous. Now I can recount these stories to everyone. And since my job sends me to peculiar places and I meet so many different characters, I should never run out stories.
Or they could be stories as mundane as recounting a nice restuarant I went to; or salacious, such as revealing that I saw Steve Francis french-kissing his coach in the Orlando Magic shower (that did not happen).
3) I also want this to be somewhat of an inside look at a young writer's first couple years in the industry: the editors, the assignments, the quest to move up to bigger markets or the years spent in small market purgatory, the people you meet, mistakes you make and the triumphs as well.
I want to be an author at some point, so maybe someday I'll turn these next couple years into my first book.
4) And finally this will be a space where I can pontificate on anything from sports to social issues to entertainment to family to friends.
Some of the submissions may even entail some personal introspection (Did I just make that word up? It sounds like a word that a wannabe-smart dumb person would spit out).
Or I may just be writing to vent.
Speaking of venting...
There is this young girl, maybe 18-20-years-old, that works at the Hollywood Video in Winter Park -- a wealthy suburb just northeast of downtown Orlando. I go there a lot lately because I'm catchin up on two television series, 24 and Arrested Development, so I rent their season DVDs. However, I usually kop a movie when I go there too.
Well, this bimbo (sorry for the misogyny ladies) makes it her habit to comment on my DVD selections all the time. Mind you this the type of young "lady" that will file her nails while you wait at the register for at least 30 seconds. Plus she belches and she's dumb loud...'ignant' I suppose. She's type of broad that would probably stand in front of a mirror butt-naked and start doing the Tootsie Roll.
Back to her hair-brained critiques...I go to kop Ray and they're all out, so granted, I'm a little upset...but I keep it cool.
But she has to go and say, "I don't know why you wanna see that dumb movie anyway."I'm like, "Do you know who Ray Charles is?"She says, "Yeah that blind piano-man. He dead though" (only she says 'dough' instead of 'though', because of course she refuses to pronounce her TH's)
I say, "Well you know your boy Foxx has won and been nominated for a bunch of awards. It's supposed to be a good movie and Ray is a legend...you should get up on that."
She says, "Yeah whatever, I'm just tryin to get out of here so I can get me some Steak-n-Shake." I guess she thought she was being cute.
This, however, was after last week when she was trying to clown me for kopping Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; which was probably the fourth time she had some slick comment about my movie-tastes.So minding my own b.i. I picked up the Star Wars DVD pack -- the one with Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. I checked it out for a second and then set it back on the counter...Here she goes again..."I know right?" she says.
I'm thinking to myself "No...What do you know."
Then she says, "I don't know who they think they foolin' chargin' folk $50 for them stupid movies."
At this point, I've had close to enough. So I say, "These are classic movies. I can't believe you don't like Star Wars. Do you at least like the prequels?"
She says, "Nope. Them stupid too...All that space and ships and stuff...that's stupid."So I just asked her, "If you could see one movie in this place, what would it be?"...
She says, "'The Cookout'".
I was spent after that comment.
This week I'm just gonna kop "Soul Plane" or "Scream 3" and wait for her kudos.
------
Meanwhile:I'm not too familiar with the blog setup yet, but I'm hoping I will be able to manipulate an area for people to post comments.
I'm not the most punctual or conscientious dude on the planet, but my every intention is to post a submission every Sunday and send out an email to everyone alerting them. I also may post random submissions throughout the week.
With that said, welcome to my blog.
posted by Twistinado @ 2:26 PM
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