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Jun 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/11/99

"If you don't dance with me, O'Connell,
you know what you are doing? You're
turning your back on reason, on mankind's
struggle to pull itself out of the mire
of ignorance and superstition. You are
saying "yes" to witchhunters and inquisitors;
you are slamming the door on enlightenment,
and you are inviting back the Dark Ages.
Now I am not doing this for you, O'Connell,
I am doing this for civilization.
What do you say? Pretty please?"
-- Dr. Joel Fleischman [actor: Rob Morrow;
episode: 2.07 "Slow Dance" from tv's
"Northern Exposure" (1990-1995) rerunning
twice daily on A&E at 8:00 am and 2:00 pm ET
see also: alt.tv.northern-exp]

0003Q: MW (ten years from today)
0004Q: Sunday, June 7th, 2009 [3,662 days to go]
0005Q: Sunday, June 7th, 2009 [3,661 days to go]
0006Q: Sunday, June 7th, 2009 [3,660 days to go]

0007Q: Sunday, June 7th, 2009 [3,659 days to go]

for the benefit of the "mysterious" ZeroAudience, here is yet
another entry in the "June 7th, 2009" series of "writing" posts.

as of today, there are now only 3,659 days left before the
arrival of Sunday, June 7th, 2009. if you were to write only
a FOURTH of a page a day during this ten year interim... you
will have written over a thousand pages written. a thousand.

a thousand pages is plenty of space to flesh out almost anything.

besides that... you could even dedicate a mere 2 hours a day
to producing said daily measely quarter page... [what's that? a
few paragraphs?] if you can't spare 120 minutes of your day
over the course of ten years to concentrate on what is presumably
your passionate desire, you're probably wasting time regularly...
by the truckload.

but imagine that... 2 whole hours to come up with a few paragraphs.
that's a piece of cake even for the most anal of perfectionists.

the truth is... once you get into your writing zone... you could easily
crank out dozens of pages in that time (let alone a quarter of a page).

so, by June 7th, 2009, if you don't have at least one masterpiece
of a book/screenplay/film/etc. completed... you are probably suffering
from some serious mental block of some sort. you might want to
spend a couple hours a day exploring a quarter page of THAT.

but.. let's take a quick u-turn here... for perspective.

let's talk about Wednesday, June 7th, 1989.

that was 3,656 days ago (from today).

what significant things have you learned over the past 3,656 days?

have you wasted any of this time? the past ten years?
have you been in a Karen-Quinlan-like coma of sorts?

for me, Wednesday, June 7th, 1989 was the 10,185th day of my life.

i was a month and a half shy of turning 28. my second child was a
few days shy of her fifth month of life. now? she can play the clarinet.
her older brother, my son, was a couple months shy of turning two.
now? he teaches his grandparents how to use their computers.

me? i was in the middle of developing an information empire.

and at the time... unbeknownst to me... i was learning more about
human nature than i ever imagined existed.

even without the specific nature of the project i was concentrating on...
creating your own business from scratch is a VERY good education.
with each day comes a new revelation.

before that... my revelations were mostly confined to my fertile imagination...

however, THAT venture focussed my revelations instead on observations....
on people and how they behave... how they think.... how they perceive things.

sure, i wrote much before i went into business as well... but those writings
were almost completely artistic in nature. written with little or no regard
for
anyone but myself. as long as i understood... that was usually fine with me.

it was kinda like creating word-sculputures. occasionally i wrote to
explicitly
express myself to others... but it was either rare or unintentional. mostly it

was an exploration... an adventure...

how ironic that going into business changed my mode of communication
from essentially self-absorbed to near pure generosity. ironic indeed.

ten years ago...
ten years to go...
(and then some).

-$Zero... DoesLifeImitateArt?... UnfortunatelyYes...
Though... FarTooOften... NotInAGoodWay...

"Lieutenant Columbo,
you're remarkable.
You have intelligence.
You have perception.
You have tenacity.
You've got everything but proof."
-- Dr. Barry Mayfield [actor: Leonard Nimoy;
guest starring in the tv series: "Columbo"
from the episode: "A Stitch in Crime" (1973)]

[regarding the young boy's urgent request to his teacher
that he be allowed to go to the bathroom... Michael used
the word "can" instead of "may." and after not being able
to learn the difference (no matter how long he was left out
in the hallway by his teacher to think about it--as punishment
for not knowing--and without anything to study in the hallway
except his full bladder) the principal intervenes and contacts
Michael's guardian to come in to school to talk to him about
his boy's inability to learn the difference between the words
'can' and 'may.' when the principal discovers the same lack
of distinction abilities in Michael's grandfather, instead of
articulating the distinction explicitly, the principal says...]

"I don't think you appreciate the subtleties
of the English language, Mr. Krichinsky."
-- Principal Dunn [actor: Ralph Tabakin;
from the movie: "Avalon" (1990)]

[another bozo message forwarded to you from
The Internal Affairs department of Internal Affairs]

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