Hypnotism

I've been told on way too many occasions that I should get on stage or write a book. I've done the stage thing when I was younger. I've threatened to write a book for years. I may not be equipped for either, but one thing is for sure. I tell a great story. I've got a bunch of them. Where to start? Therein lies the rub.

I chose the word hypnotism to describe the feeling you get when you go into a video store with one movie in mind and then are hit with a barrage of lights, candy and information overload. You usually walk out an hour later with some obscure movie far from relating to the one you promised yourself going in. More information overload.

Casinos offer the same short-circuiting mind-grenade. My mind sort of does the same thing when I think of how to tell the stories.

I figured if I just started somewhere-here-the good stuff will just fall out of me eventually and keep me grounded. At the outset of my wanting to record some of these stories, I only HAD so many stories....thanks to my procrastination, many more have stacked up and are smothering each other. Let's just think of this as mental spring cleaning.

BD and I will be trading off with our writing. We are brothers, which will make for an interesting study of contrasts and similarities in style and experience.

It may take a while for us to hit our stride. I have faith in our abilities to do this. The last thing I want is to be boring. My goal is to entertain and to hit the spot with the human experiment. I've been accused of being "out there" with my sense of humor. My mother once told me that if the family ever went on the Family Feud, they would leave me home because of some of the answers I would give to be funny rather than right. Richard Dawson creeped me out anyway.

Right now it is 4:45am. I work a late shift. I'm going to put this on simmer and get back after I show BD what I've done thus far.

--Big Lou--