Writers Block

You know I have not been blogging for a good part of 2010, I could come up with a few different reasons, but it really it comes down to one.

Writers block.

What causes that is different for every writer I guess, but for me, the mundane is my bane of existence. From factory work(an epic blog that I am currently working on)to my new job that I will simply call “The Facility”. What “The Facility” gives me is more than a paycheck…but it gives me that human interaction that gave me the ingredients to cook up the likes of FRONTLINE: an expat that’s back and IT IS WHAT IT IS.

So here is my first offering from this new kitchen.

The Bad Guys had it right

So a few weeks ago I was on facebook and my friend Borboleta had an interesting face book status that like most good facebook status if it can get more than ten or so more responses you know you have a good one. Well the long and short of it is that one of the responses was that “Disney movies gave me a horrible impression of what I should look for in men” or some shit like that.

I’m at work at “The Facility” and I am talking with my co worker about how having plans to have something to call an audible against is better than having no plan at all, my co worker is like “dude, having a plan is cool, unless you are on a road trip and no plan is the best way to go” and of course I am in agreement, but having no plan is in fact a plan. I started thinking, how over the last few years I have had plans that for some reason or another the wheels always came off. Then as we kept on with this seeming pointless conversation I said to myself, you know who else had a plan?

COBRA!

That’s right COBRA a ruthless organization bent on taking over the earth.
Seriously, every day as a kid I would watch COBRA and they had a plan, a plan while not nice for any reason the M.A.S.S device or even the B.E.T come to mind, they had a plan, and that is way more than what anyone else generally has when doing anything these days, and guess what happened.

G.I. joe comes right on in and ruins it.

What plan did G.I. joe ever have!!!!

That’s right, no plan. They waited, they waited until COBRA got there shit going and then they jump out with the monkey wrench.
You know who else does that?

Haters.

Not that I am saying that G.I. joes are a bunch of haters, but seriously haters wait around for you to do something, anything, so they can hate.

Anyway, my coworker was like dude! When you are that awesome, you don’t need a plan. I was like yeah, but –He’s like no, what you don’t understand is that DUKE was the plan.

Duke was the plan?

Wait, you mean to tell me that patience and planning will always give way to fast action and brash decision making? How messed up is that? I understand the concept of nothing ventured nothing gained, but you can’t go all in on every hand.
I get it though, you can’t plan everything out, but you can’t leave it all up to chance.

Amazing isn’t it.