The Intimidation Fart

Many people have nervous twitches or nitchy things that happen when they're embarrassed etc.  I can't get over the intimidation fart...

It gets me every time.  I'm having a meeting and somebody farts loudly mid conversation.  This only happens to a handful of people, however I'm told it only happens around me.  What is it about me that makes people fart, or just generally extra gassy.  I feel the need to seek a specific answer from some medical journal, or newspaper.  Although I can't help seeking pure joy in coming up with my own theories.  

I theorize that the fart is a symbol of filling to the brim with explosive admiration, just kidding but funny though.  Seriously though!  How can I make people fart!  That doesn't even make any goddam sense!  But it's hilarious!  I wonder now what else I have the unknown ability for.  I wait to see if I'm capable of welling up the gas within people to force them to do my bidding.  Perhaps THIS is my X-Men power.

But for the mean time...I'll just consider myself queen of the intestinal track and call it a day.

I DO want an office of Licorice whips...

It's true, we'd all be a little happier if the offices we worked in reminded us more of Candy Land...

But unfortunately they do not.  There will be no gum drop thinking caps today, no no.  Well we can dream, but what's interesting is people who ask you to think big because they are not allowed.  They're hoping that any awesome ideas you come up with can change their surroundings because such creativity can be blamed on immaturity to the business, yes that is interesting.

I found my self developing a wonderfully colorful plan to redesign the fun space for the creatives.  First the color choices went to the corporate site- they're very 90's.  Then we had to begin sneaking around and illegally doing stuff to make anything happen.  It just doesn't make any damn sense.  If a bunch of people want an office made of candy, ( this is in theory that it wouldn't attract disgusting bugs and deteriorate the building), then by GOD why the hell not give it to them.  The reasoning behind all the no's is just petty, and based on rules that don't necessarily apply to this environment.  I say we did make quite an attempt though.  We wanted a loft so we knocked out the ceiling.  Well we had support though, and that is the point.  You'd never coss your teacher, or your mentor, or your boss to have a small smile factor built in your surrounding.  However, you would go through with all the back-breaking work, the designing, the reforming, and the final product which makes you tired working on it, but you're happier with it than what used to exist.  You do it, because it's somewhat thrilling to be able to go through with something that nobody else had the motivation for, and nobody else wanted to do for the sake of doing something drastic in an environment desperate to grow.  

All I can say is this place is growing and the young one's as is traditional, are a major part of it.  this all does make me think though about the individual's ability to grow by staying in the same environment too long.  I think I'll be moving around.  

I AM NINJA

That's right, it's no lie.  I have become a ninja here at my place of business, and I am a level 10 master at sneaking large pieces of IKEA furniture without the facilities people ever knowing what hit them.

I AM a ninja- the interns have the task of redesigning the Think Tank or 'fun' room.  We thought it needed a new name, new kick-ass furniture, and a whole new attitude- color saturation, a bar, etc.  The point is that there are facilities people that control exactly what kind of furniture and anything goes in this place according to design and ethics code- bull shit bitch- we're drinkin'- off the job at least.

This project is decently fun and interesting to me because for the most part I get to just dec the shit out of a great space- and make it somewhere that I want to hang out and think.  The best part about it is that it proves that creatives do indeed live here.  It was both of my boss' ideas to give us a nice chunk of change to completely turn around the attitude of our beloved hang out, and more importantly they want to thrive in an environment that allows the power of play- so they're telling us that they care NOT about the trouble that they WILL be in, but to just go nuts and make a real theme.  I love it. There's nothing better than bringing together all your favorite patterns and furniture to make a place to make your colleagues your your friends; that's what this is really about.  It's a place to bond and spend time, and hide beer away from facilities people.  -Whatever we bought rock band, and I get to be an interior designer this week- dig it.- Plus Ping Pong will live forever in this joint- I'll make sure of that.

Will I become one...

I sift from professional to professional seeking and searching then I think about becoming that writer...

You notice them, the ones who desperately want to do everything themselves, and then you wonder...will I become one?  Have I already become one?  Or- am I just crazy?  I see a couple here and there- well not here necessarily- but I see them.  Are writers not team players?  Do most writers have problems collaborating their writing with other writers?  Am I a writer who is so territorial about the projects that I receive that I will refuse to accept a great Idea when I see one- specifically for the sake of owning it as only mine?  That makes me sick and sad because it just doesn't make any damn sense- for the project or anyone involved.  More so it doesn't make any sense for the 'shine' factor of the idea.  I did work with one when I first came here- this writer shot down everything I said before I could even get out the entire idea, and then they refused to come up with a variety of thinking patterns themselves.

It makes me worry- are writers more likely to fall into patterns of thinking in only one direction, and does that hurt the business that they're either in or working on?  I feel like it does, and I intend to be a team player- if not for the sake of starting any kind of conversation.

BECAUSE_

I find that the idea of 'the conversation' doesn't just refer to things like social media.  The conversation is the exchange of idea no matter how hard until the best is created in some form.  I think writers have a mush harder time grasping that- it means they must think inside not just their realm, but that of a few others as well.  A writer must be the all over thinker- because in the end the writing really means the thinking, and the thinking really means the communication of a great idea truly understood.

Social 'Sponsitility'

Saying that ad people never act like children is stupid because that's what makes us interesting most of the time...

It's true though, we act like children sometimes on the surface to make tough decisions seem more bearable.  I don't know I think it builds character.  The point is that I feel really fucking bad for the people in ad who have to act as if they've taken a neat and tidy IT job with a cube that will never grow, be decorated, or have an ounce of fun littered anywhere on the premise.  I look forward to the new and interesting crap that I can bring to my office, my coworkers.  These stupid pieces of crap mean god jokes, a game here or there, and not one damn piece means that the work won't get done.  If anything it means that it will get done a little faster because dammit!  i had fun doing it!

No!  the people I'm talking about, which I really don't know if they exist anymore, are the addy's and the marketers that promote 'bad people'  who takes care of cigarette companies, health insurance companies, politicians; who makes cool new shit for THESE people?  I want to know, more so I want to know if they've decided to dedicate their lives to just this kind of person, company, brand etc.  Is the feeling- well know that I've started I might as well just go full fucking throttle in this direction?  Now that would be a place worth writing about.  The people that worked there would truly be interesting ones indeed.  How would you keep that cynical advertising attitude, with a joke here and there, a little fun, oh yes and don't forget the cancer, chemicals, and generally destroyed nature of millions of people.  Would you literally have to be crazy to run it. - I can see this person being a boss that makes truly important decisions based off of something like a dice roll- op! fivesies!  okay time to make something really powerful for smokers- quick I know!  Just take a nuclear powerplant, turn the stacks into giant cigarettes, and let them smoke for all the world to see- bam! you've got yourself guerilla!

I just don't know, but the idea of a company built off of all horrible things that they are probably controlling so it does the least damage makes me smile a little- interesting.

Every Work place has them...

Boo- to the invasive colleague with the eagle ears.  End of story

A different character: A new piece of the story

The key to a show that people can relate to is the character and the new quarks they have to offer...

 I need to write a pilot, or some sort of Show-like program.  I have to say that although I'm unsure of the story's path, I know the type of characters that I intend to have, and I think that's more important.  After all would I have spent time ever watching "Ally McBeal' a show about dreary lives and sad music if the characters weren't well written, and worth relating to?  Absolutely not, generally I have no interest in such a thing.  However these characters found individual status as well as a level of group character that appealed to a wide range of people. Making a ridiculous situation half the time, and a very serious situation for the other half, makes for a drastic enough balance so the subject can be literally anything.  

But let's face it- there are too many shows out there that try to be all about office antics, or comedy that's all about the college world- yes fuck the real world -we don't have to be in it yet!  (That's where Undeclared failed to succeed)  I love the movies that apatow productions makes, but their serious successes rely on their ability to appeal to what's actually happening to people, and just being real.  The fact about undeclared is that with all the college hoopla and making light of any serious money situations is that they 'really' don't just go away by the end of the show.  Undeclared could have really pioneered the sarcastic nature of extending probems into very sarcastic smart solutions that allowed the characters to grow in a more life-centered direction.

So where do I go with a show that I'd like to write?  Well it doesn't matter as long as I remember the rules- THE RULES!