Who wants ice cream?!!
I wrote the following in an email for a friend of mine the other day. Since I am notoriously TERRIBLE for living by my own words, I thought sharing it in a post would (hopefully) allow someone else to get something from it:
"Remember how strong you've been, how confident you are, and how fearless you are going to be and you'll never have to question your past, your present or your future..."
Granted, it doesn't have a lot to it, but it's still a good thought to hold onto. At least, I thought it was.
And now for the Lightning Updates Round!
-- Went with my father and Rebecca to see Daniel Wallace (of Big Fish fame) lecture at his alma mater, Altamont High. Quite an enjoyable experience. The man has a wonderful sense of humor and an undeniably unique take on his world and his writing. He's a little obsessed with glass eyes...But everyone has their thing.
Tonight from him I learned: To appreciate, explore and exploit the smallest of things when it comes to writing. It is these seeds, these unseeable, everyday things, from which the branches of the story will grow. If we are aware, and can see the small things in our lives, the subjects about which we write will choose us.
-- Hold tight kiddies! In two weeks, this fella will have been (basically) unemployed for 6 WONDERFUL MONTHS!!! Throw me a party! This is probably the longest I will go as a gainfully unemployed human being for at least the next 30 years. Soon it will be over. I sure have enjoyed it. I am tired of it, but I enjoyed it.
-- Illustration job is happening. Let's hope to the gods I am not in over my head with this one.
-- The weather could not be more perfect for our species right now. Spend no less than one hour a day in it and appreciating it before it becomes suffocatingly hot and all the old and obese people start keeling over and stinkin' up the joint.
Final funny thought: Speaking of obese people... Do you know what I love most about the country being so morbidly overweight? I love the TV news stories about it. But I don't love them because of the information involved, or the awareness it SHOULD be conveying...NO. No, I love the footage they always include of fat people below the shoulders just walking around a city during the course of their big ol' fat day. Pulling around their fat kids, eating their fried-ass chicken, stopping to rest every other block. Do you think there are ever obese people out there who happen to catch one of those stories, and they look up and see their gargantuan ass parading across the screen? Or worse yet: Someone calls them and says "Hey! Bill! I sure am glad I just bought this 32" plasma screen, 'cuz I just had to watch your gargantuan ass parade across my screen!" Don't these folks have enough self-esteem issues as it is without some schmuck on CNBC twisting the knife? And sometimes, when they want us overly-thin people to have a REAL good laugh, they run the footage in slow motion behind the statistics! Rock on!!!
I don't know what's getting fatter these days, Us or the lump of cholesterol, sugars, and water between our ears...
"Remember how strong you've been, how confident you are, and how fearless you are going to be and you'll never have to question your past, your present or your future..."
Granted, it doesn't have a lot to it, but it's still a good thought to hold onto. At least, I thought it was.
And now for the Lightning Updates Round!
-- Went with my father and Rebecca to see Daniel Wallace (of Big Fish fame) lecture at his alma mater, Altamont High. Quite an enjoyable experience. The man has a wonderful sense of humor and an undeniably unique take on his world and his writing. He's a little obsessed with glass eyes...But everyone has their thing.
Tonight from him I learned: To appreciate, explore and exploit the smallest of things when it comes to writing. It is these seeds, these unseeable, everyday things, from which the branches of the story will grow. If we are aware, and can see the small things in our lives, the subjects about which we write will choose us.
-- Hold tight kiddies! In two weeks, this fella will have been (basically) unemployed for 6 WONDERFUL MONTHS!!! Throw me a party! This is probably the longest I will go as a gainfully unemployed human being for at least the next 30 years. Soon it will be over. I sure have enjoyed it. I am tired of it, but I enjoyed it.
-- Illustration job is happening. Let's hope to the gods I am not in over my head with this one.
-- The weather could not be more perfect for our species right now. Spend no less than one hour a day in it and appreciating it before it becomes suffocatingly hot and all the old and obese people start keeling over and stinkin' up the joint.
Final funny thought: Speaking of obese people... Do you know what I love most about the country being so morbidly overweight? I love the TV news stories about it. But I don't love them because of the information involved, or the awareness it SHOULD be conveying...NO. No, I love the footage they always include of fat people below the shoulders just walking around a city during the course of their big ol' fat day. Pulling around their fat kids, eating their fried-ass chicken, stopping to rest every other block. Do you think there are ever obese people out there who happen to catch one of those stories, and they look up and see their gargantuan ass parading across the screen? Or worse yet: Someone calls them and says "Hey! Bill! I sure am glad I just bought this 32" plasma screen, 'cuz I just had to watch your gargantuan ass parade across my screen!" Don't these folks have enough self-esteem issues as it is without some schmuck on CNBC twisting the knife? And sometimes, when they want us overly-thin people to have a REAL good laugh, they run the footage in slow motion behind the statistics! Rock on!!!
I don't know what's getting fatter these days, Us or the lump of cholesterol, sugars, and water between our ears...
posted by Sean Corley at 9:17 PM
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Check m' blog. I owed you one. Clem.
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