Off Hiatus I guess

Long dormant, but it's time to brush off the cobwebs and start writing again.

I have been writing, it's just been mostly cover letters and resumes. The way things have been going for me lately I could write country music.

2007 was an awesome year. had a good gig at Wells Fargo, had a kid, left Wells, and a month later got the Perfect Job for a company called BEA Systems as their weekend Customer Service Rep.

Customer Service is akin to being a 911 operator. Everyone calls with an emergency, and you have to prioritize everyone's emergency. BEA was more like being Fire Watch for the Forest Service. not much happened, but when it did it was either huge or no big deal.

I've tried to keep this a writing for writing's sake kind of blog, and avoid all the journaling crap that tends to bog these blogs down. No one wants to read the pathos of a never-was who suffers from occasional delusions of adequacy. That's too emo, and I'm way past puberty to do that.

I'd promise I'll write more frequently, but I'd feel even more guilt if I did that, and didn't follow through, which would keep me from picking it up again.

Ray Bradbury daily sits at his typewriter- now a computer(I hope) and would bang out streams of consciousness then craft it into something commercially viable. That's what this blog is for.

Welcome back.

The things you see

I was browsing through youtube.com, trying to find some Big O episodes, and came across this:









Amazing.

The swarming tactic is cool and the fact that each type of bee adapted to their local threats. I wouldn't be surprised if the European bees, if enough survive to adapt to the new threat and pose some new kind of defense, maybe even through social transmission.

the Voices

I'm currently working on a pet project, and with finding the right voice.

I 'm trying to come up with the right metaphor for blending, or mixing down or cross-fading, differnt writng styles.

The example was getting a sandwich.

Jack Kirby, Stan Lee Warren Ellis, Mark Millar were some of my examples:

Jack would lead with either a verb or a very aggresive adverb

Stan would wind around a few more descriptives

Mark Millar would take 3 or 4 issues to show the conflicting desires nad motivations behind the getting of the sandwich and the selection of the ingredients, with the action taking place in 4-5 page.

Warren Ellis, (at least in NextWave) would have the sandwich set in the middle of a death house full of the most absurd devices, like Buzzsaw - bellied roosters defending it.
i guess it is not what you say, but how you say it.

Looking for Work. Again

To Paraphrase Huey Freeman, well, technically it would be Aaron McGruder.
"The life of a temp is not for the meek of heart"

Contract ended the 6th, I was webmaster of the Well Fargo internal websites. Since they were internal, I have no copies to prove the point. I spent last week getting things together to show that I actually know how to do some of the things . I'll post some of my examples on my other blog In Progress, so that I can refer people to my process and end results.

I've been working on a few things as a writer/developer that should be entertaining.

What I do:
I'm a writer. I make the kind of taglines that are mentally stickier than fat Southerners at a NASCAR rally in August.

IF that makes any kind of sense to the 9 or so people who'll stumble across this, tell me what you think it means.

I like Advertising, but any gig works for me. I live in Oakland, but can commute to The City.

I can do production work, I know Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and I used to tutor PhotoShop.

I have experience in Administrivia, CRM, and Tech Support. It's mid October, so the hiring's about to start for the Christmas rush in Customer service departments.

Happy Birthday to me

On this day in Akron, Ohio, I was born.

Not much of a big deal if you ask me.

The way my mother would tell, it was a dramatic entrance, with me crowning 'early' and the orderlies crossing her legs so the doctor could get their and do his job. I dont' remember any of it myself, so I had to take her word for it. She also said I wasn't going to be an Artist, and I listened to that as well.

The last few years have been hard birthdays. Simply those kind of days where you expect anvils to drop from the skies.

Last year is a bit of a blur. Neither good nor bad.

In '04 my father was dying and I got to talk to him via cel. His tracheotomy made it difficult to speak.

In '02, I got a ticket for multiple driving indescretions that I'm still trying to get cleared. The only hting I did wrong was use the carpool lane with only two people in a pickup truck. That and I had no Driver's license.

When I lived in Air Force, especially in Germany, I would go for a long walk and reflect on the previous year. I waited til Thanksgiving for this, as I was usually pursuing my goals of consuming vast amounts of brown liquor.

They weren't all bad. In '97, on my 30th, I had a Gallery shoing of my work, two happy, healthy kids, and a future in Design with a captial D. Less than six months later, I'd be downsized by that wife, and my life again changed.

My current wife, who's carrying our child, has made me very happy on most days, so they tend to get lumped together. For example; on our first anniversary, we went to New Orleans, to chase our ghosts of the past.

The point of all this? Quite simply this; there is no point. Existence futile and meaningless on a geological scale. But, since life has no inherent meaning, it's up to each of us to assign meaning to our lives. You can spend your time building bridges, or walls.



Take or leave it. But time's running out.

Browsings

A few YouTube.com videos.



Intergalactic-- Beastie Boys




Sabotage -- Beastie Boys





Jim Kelly





"BLack Samurai" trailer





"The life of a Black Hero is not for the meek of heart."


- Huey Freeman






A compilation of fight scenes.

Getting back into

The swing of things.





For your enjoyment,



the Tick





part 1

Today's grazings

Check out on iTunes the song:
"Everyday Superhero" by Smash Mouth

Japanese full-body tattoos called "horimono"

great "advert" parody of a Sony spot. I htink they did a similar one here in San Francisco

gottne off a link from this site of UK office humour

I've been working.

That and school.

Did horrible this laast term, and the funny thing is, this is the first quarter nothing Earth-shattering has happened in my life.

Maybe I was consstantly waiting for something bad to happen.

Ce'st la vie.