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Imagine a workplace…

Imagine a workplace…where the person in charge…avoids making decisions…especially the tough ones…doesn’t know what’s going on with the people who are supposed to be managed…doesn’t communicate what’s going on in the higher levels of the company…only seems to care about getting promoted…

Imagine a workplace…where the only person who wants to jump into the leadership vacuum…has neither the skills nor disposition to do so…but is looking for a promotion anyway…

Imagine a workplace…where the rest of your co-workers are apathetic, argumentative, congenitally lazy, chaotic, malcontents…

Imagine a workplace…where they handle the administration of your pay and benefits as if you were an adversary…and you had to triple check everything…because you don’t trust them…

Imagine a workplace…where you just want to do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay…be treated like an adult…like a professional…and you wanted to work along side other adults…professionals…

Imagine…

James P. Johnson

Showing up is not enough.

i learned something new today…

and ms. scribe keeps telling me that this show is a waste of time…we’ll see what she thinks the next time i get strapped into a straight jacket…

I have a character who kills herself…

at first it was by pills…and the blade…but the more i think about it, the more i want to change it…and yes, i do spend a considerable amount of time pondering some of life’s more gruesome realities…this is the work that i choose…

anyway, i’m beginning to reconsider her method…for the following reasons…

too generic…maybe i watch too many movies, but this seems to be the preferred method of suicidal girls in the 20th century…really…all i need is a bathtub of hot water and Michael Stipe in the background wailing…everybody hurts…

the other reason i want to change it is…i like this character…if she has to die…yes, she does…and if it has to be by her own hand…yes, again…i want it to have some meaning…yet not be dramatic just for the sake of drama…

besides…i have an idea…something i’ve noticed for a long time, and just realized how i can write about it…

but i bring this up here because i want to hear your thoughts…and reactions…

like i said…this is the work…

on a completely unrelated note…

i pick up business cards…really…you don’t want to see the stack of bent, crumpled, and completely irrelevant business cards i’ve collected over the years…

but…

i would have never encountered these wonderful artist websites if I hadn’t picked up some random card…

Your word of the week…

Crepuscular– Of or like twilight; dim:

one of those fancy words that fancy people like to use to describe this phenomena when language is just not enough to convey part of the magic of being alive…while it looks good, and has a nice sound…say it…cray-pus-q-lar…it doesn’t come close to capturing what it attempts to describe…it sounds more like a medical term…for some kind of bodily function..leakage perhaps…i would rather go with something more mundane…say, twilight…

my bed of nails is sharper than yours…

a couple of months ago i thought i had an idea…i would have been better off if i had pursued music…at least i could raise a few bucks playing on the street…if I had any talent…

and then i realize that notion is very romanticized…i know a handful of musicians…and it’s very easy for me to sit on the sidelines and run my mouth…but after someone dropped this interview with Monique Ortiz into my Inbox…

i realized that it’s the same story for most the musicians i know…

Andy Ard works to support his family and still finds a way to scrape together an album…and promote it on local radio…

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Eric Shiveley plays house shows and coffee shops to get his music out into the world, and still manages to produce other folks music too…

even BobbyC…on an indie label…with bookings…and an excellent new release of headphone gems…

yet, a word of mouth recommendation from a nobody like me still helps to get people to listen to his work…

and these guys are the successful ones…for each of them there are three others i know who are getting nowhere…

meanwhile…all i have to do is sit here at my desk and type words until they form sentences that will make up a cohesive and entertaining story…

we just make it look easy…