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Stupid Love Songs

10/26/2012

 
As I've been painting the store, I've been listening to the radio quite a bit. Apparently, I haven't been listening to the lyrics very closely, because there sure are a LOT of stupid love songs out there. Take this little number from Keith Urban:

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me

First of all, pal, guess who I love more than you? That's right, the cat. I'm sure not leaving him with you! And since you're being a spiteful, stingy jerk, I will most certainly NOT think of you. If you'd let me take your sweater, maybe I would have once in a while, but since you insist on keeping it, you have left my memory forever,  old whatshisname.

Chicago had a big hit with this love song that the "Lite Favorites" station was playing every hour:

Just say you'll love me for the rest of your life
I gotta lot of love and I don't want to let go
Will you still love me for the rest of my life?
'Cause I can't go on, no I can't go on
I can't go on if I'm on my own

Ugh. If there's one thing most women can't stand, it's a needy, whiny man. You can't go on? Really? Suck it up and get over it, already! If you are so completely incapable of even showering if I don't love you for the rest of your life, you don't need me, you need a nanny. What a wuss.

Bruno Mars seems to be very popular on the radio these days. Let's take a listen:

'Cause it's a beautiful night
We're looking for something dumb to do
Hey baby
I think I wanna marry you

Is it the look in your eyes
Or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby
I think I wanna marry you


Yes, because all the best decisions are made when alcohol (oops! dancing juice) is involved. And did you just say that marrying me would be a dumb thing to do? No thanks, Bruno. I'm pretty sure I can do better.

Finally, Justin Beiber has been wailing this ridiculous number:

As long as you love me
We could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be  broke
As long as you love me

We're starving and homeless? Of course I love you. The cat and I will really love the Beiberburgers we'll be noshing on for dinner, which will solve that whole starving problem!

Jason says I'm just not a romantic. What ever.

Entrepreneurship

10/13/2012

 

Writer's Chatroom

10/6/2012

 
On Sunday, October 7th, I will be the guest author on the Writers Chatroom (http://writerschatroom.com). 
I thought it might be fun to give you a preview of what we might be chatting about!

Q: What traumatic childhood experiences have influenced your writing?
A: Well, I remember one time, my big sister and I went fishing in the pond behind our house. A giant anaconda came swimming up to us and chased us, on land, all the way back to the house. Ho-ho! Those were scary times!

Q: A giant anaconda? In suburban Connecticut?
A: Listen, I'm not going to lie to you. Times were tough growing up in a rich Connecticut town, in a two-parent household with a sister who was my best friend and my hero. You can imagine how that might scar a child. So maybe I just thought it was an anaconda. I'll give you that. But here's what I know. It was a gigantic snake, and it intended to swallow us whole.
Q: My my, that does sound like you had it rough in the 'hood. 
A: Listen, you don't know what I endured. Having to hide the fact that my parents were still together and happily married. Doing well in school, not doing drugs (which honestly, I never even saw, because my friends didn't do them, either.) And, of course, dodging man-eating snakes at home. It was rough. Of course it influenced my writing.
Q: Funny you say that, because you haven't put any snakes, man-eating or otherwise, in any of your works.
A: Looking back on that incident, I can't exactly swear it was a giant bloodthirsty anaconda that chased us all the way home. It might have been a muskrat. And maybe it didn't follow us. I'll have to call my sister and see how she remembers it.

I honestly don't know where I get my story ideas from. My mom always said I had a wild imagination, so maybe that's it. 
I still think it was the snake.
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Wrestling anacondas in my spare time.

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