i don't know what it means; it just sounds good.
The quote of the day:
Hey, Charlie Pentagon.
Running news:
None today.
One of the other guests mentioned well-known assassination details such as how the government hired a sharpshooter to recreate the JFK assassination from the Book Depository, and he couldn't do it.
"Well, no," Posner said. "It was CBS, and they hired 5 sharpshooters, and all 5 were able to do it faster than Oswald was."
Hey. I didn't know that.
He also debunked the "James Earl Ray was a country hick who couldn't have known how to get out of the country on his own" theory. Evidently Ray had gone overseas several times before and after the King assassination was trying to get to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) or South Africa, where he'd be a hero, but he was so hot his supporters couldn't get money to him.
I got dinked in the Austin Heart Of Film Festival Competition today. I'm trying to be sanguine about this, remind myself that this is the process the universe puts you through to ensure you enjoy the good times when they show up.
So far I can report this is not a successful mindset. It's really bumming me out to get dinked in the first rounds of competitions like this. Despite the fact that it's all in the readers' tastes and the alignment of the planets and yada yada yada, I feel like I'm being told I can't write, or something.
I think of a story J. Michael Straczynski has told about a similar situation. He was 19 and wondered why all his stories kept getting rejected, so he called Harlan Ellison (at that point, a total stranger) and asked why. "Write better stories!" the always-comforting Ellison replied.
I guess I just have to write better.
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DARIN
They didn't use to be able to
advertise prescription medications
on TV. I wonder what happened.
DIANE
The Reagan administration.
Copyright 1998 Diane Patterson
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