Random Stupid Stuff

I used to work at a theatre that would hire a black actress to be a member of the resident cast.  They hired this person based on who was the best candidate for the job of being black and female... and then who was the best performer.  They also did this with at least one black male and white female.  Many people were passed up for these jobs because they weren't the right gender or color.

I work for the government, and several people in my office currently have their jobs because they're related to people in power in some other office.  The lady who used to work the supply closet got her job here because her father was elected to the State Senate, and he pulled some strings to get her a job here.  She had a dispute with one of her co-workers, and she urinated in a cup and put the cup on the co-worker's desk.  She was transferred from the supply closet to the mail room.  But she wasn't fired.

A lot of people I know in Oklahoma supported Ron Paul in the 2012 Presidential election.  However, in Oklahoma, Ron Paul was not on the ballot.  If you voted for President of the United States of America in Oklahoma in 2012, you could only vote for Obama or Romney.  You had no other choice, even though there were many other people running for the office that would, ultimately, govern over the state that refused to include him/her on their ballot.  People sometimes get mad at candidates who run for president on a "third-party ticket" because they, supposedly, steal votes away from one of the other candidates in the Democrat or Republican party.  In Oklahoma, they've made sure that nobody can steal those votes away by making sure the public can't choose who they want.  There is no write-in voting in Oklahoma, also.

You can continuously sue somebody forever if you want to.  And if they don't fight it, you win.

I haven't been able to afford a working printer for my computer for almost a year. 

I texted a friend recently.  "I feel like I'm at the end of the action drama, where the good guy has been fighting the bad guy, and then there's a moment where the bad guy disarms the good guy and wounds him.  The good guy starts crawling towards his sword so that he can keep fighting.  But even in the audience, you know that the good guy is gonna die.  He's not gonna make it to the sword in time, and the bad guy is gonna kill him.  I feel like I'm in that moment where I've lost my sword and I'm crawling, hoping to make it to my weapon, but knowing that I'm about to be killed."  My friend texted back.  "By the way, your sword analogy could go the other way.  Often when the hero is almost dead or defeated, something happens to turn the tide.  Or the hero gets a burst of energy.  Just remember Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride.  Right when he was defeated by the six-fingered man, he comes back into the fight to kick his ass.  Or in Lord of the Rings, everytime the good guys are about to lose, Gandalf shows up.  Or Robocop, where Officer Murphy gets shot up and mangled, only to come back even more badass."

What if we're all living a movie?  And you don't really know what kind of movie you're in, so you don't know how to play things.  Like, if you're in a horror movie, you can't have sex.  But if you're in a romantic comedy, you almost have to have sex.  If you're in a courtroom drama, you need to get drunk so that you can become inspired.  If you're in a family movie, you need to stay away from alcohol or else you'll be kicked out of school.  Don't be black in a period drama.  Be black in a film directed by Spike Lee.  What if we can change the movie we're in?  In Robocop, the good guy gets torn apart at the beginning of the movie and comes back to kick ass after that.  In Braveheart, the good guy gets torn apart at the end of the movie after losing to the bad guys and doesn't come back after that.  I wanna be in that cross-genre movie that starts out as a coming of age comedy, then becomes a teenage-angst movie, then a romantic comedy, then a What Would You Do With A Life-Changing Amount Of Money movie, then a revenge action blockbuster, then a two-person-only porn, then a romantic comedy again.  Then I want my movie to be a parable that will help people live better lives for the rest of time and be happier. 

I think I have a cold in my nose.  And throat.  I've been trying to convince myself that I am not sick this whole week.  I've done okay so far.  I'm not winning the fight today.

When good people die, that's stupid.  Like Paul Newman.  And Michael Jackson.

I don't like ads.  And most people.

My movie needs a good twist right about now.  An upward twist.  Wish I could make that happen.