My situation hasn’t improved. I have no phone service at the moment. If I got this out I managed to find some hapless wifi network I could use for a moment to upload. It’s unlikely I’ll be able to put out more than these blog posts for a little while. I have one play to make and I’ll see if I can swing it in a couple hours. Maybe I’ll have some degree of internet access tonight. If I do I’ll start doing this stuff seriously again. I’ll start getting shit done again. And Ideally I’ll hear back from at least one of my interviews. In the meantime, I’ll make a concerted effort to do this daily. How hard can it be to write five hundred words each day? See? Right here. One hundred and fifty-six words down.
I’m late with it but I finally started my quarterly watch of Sports Night. I’m feeling a little better watching it right now I’m certainly not ‘good’. There are times I forget just how much this show influenced so many things in my life. I just wish we had of this technology when I was a child. It’s still unlikely that I would’ve worked through my childhood shit soon enough to follow through on anything I wanted to do then and do now. All the same, it would’ve been nice to have had an iPad in the late nineties instead of my being turned off by digital art. If I had one of these cell phones twenty-five years ago, I could’ve figured out a lot of things much faster and earlier.
To that point, once again, fuck daylight savings. It’s well past the time for one of my semiannual rants against daylight savings. First things first, Franklin did not create daylight savings. Well, he may have inadvertently created it but it was a joke. He wrote an open letter wherein he was bashing the idea. A throw away line amidst mocking the French, and true to form in a single day sticking it to a French lady and then sticking it to the French people as a whole by mocking them for following the English in their practice of burning candles at both ends so as to mitigate the outrageous candle costs ravaging the average household. Here are some other facts on the matter. The English instituted daylight savings well into World War I. Sustaining damage from the Germans’ aerial attacks under the cover of night, the British government had a plan. They used daylight savings to allow the citizenry time enough to live their daily lives and get home earlier in the evening. Allowing everyone time enough to get home, be with their families, and have a quiet meal. After which the entire country would turn out every light. The entire island was completely blacked out, hiding all possible targets from attackers. Now, attacks were still launched, however, the casualty numbers were greatly mitigated while the German’s still used armaments and spent funds on those armaments to diminished returns compared to the cost. The US, on the other hand, first instituted daylight savings following World War II as an attempt to skirt the costs of expanding infrastructure to and throughout more rural areas, only to spend more money to eventually expand said infrastructure thirty to forty years later as it was inevitable to do so. Tracking the timeline of technological advancement in this country as well the course and path of that advancement, I’m very confident in saying that daylight savings was among the greater factors inhibiting technology in United States.
But hey, now we have spoiled, cry-baby nepo-bitches going out of their way to make Skynet real while making Cylons, and they’re not chromed yet. There, that’s my regular, semiannual anti-daylight savings rant.
Anyway, just because this is kind of my thing right now, if anyone reading this can give my name to Martin Gero please do it. I want to be involved with the new Stargate series and I have ideas for it. I sat down and wrote a couple more pages of my spec script for a new Stargate series. I was thinking about posting it up somewhere online but I don’t know where. Well, later…maybe…
