Terrence Moss Presents

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Work Story"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:28:00 +0000

The 170th Erick Davidson story is inspired by real-life as Erick shows up at Chris's office with some unexpected news about his job.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10343249

"A Better Life", A Better Understanding

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:48:00 +0000

A reaction piece to the independent immigrant drama A Better Life starring SAG Award and Oscar nominee Demian Bichir.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/abetterlifeabetterunderstanding

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Replacement"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:52:00 +0000

In the 169th Erick Davidson story (for the Frontiers Magazine website), Erick, Chris and Eugene attend a stand-up comedy show where Erick is called upon to perform at the last minute.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10341687

"Some of My Best Friends": What Might Have Been

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:29:00 +0000

A media commentary on what might have become of the short-lived 2001 CBS comedy Some of My Best Friends.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/someofmyfriendswhatmighthavebeen

The Oscar Nominations: Reactions, Thoughts and Tidbits

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:27:00 +0000

A non-insider's take on the Oscar nominations that were announced this morning.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/essays/theoscarnominationsreactionsthoughtsandtidbits

The So-and-So Profiles: Aaron Scotti.

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:00 +0000

The latest So-and-So Profile spotlights the up-and-coming Aaron Scotti, who brings an enthusiastic, positive outlook to life as a Hollywood actor. And tells us why he wants to be Justin Timberlake for one day.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/profiles/aaronscotti

Starring Erick Davidson - "'The Suit' Continuation"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:58:00 +0000

In the 168th Erick Davidson story for the Frontiers Magazine website, Erick's neighbor friends Hunter and Eugene help orchestrate a reconciliation between him and Chris.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10339450

Daytime TV in a Post-Soap World: "The Revolution", "The Chew" and What the Networks Need to Do

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:25:00 +0000

My latest media commentary about All My Children and One Life to Live replacements The Chew and The Revolution. And because I've been picking on ABC all week, I took the liberty of advising them as well as the other broadcast networks about how they could revitalize Daytime TV.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/daytimetvinapost-soapworldtherevolutionthechewandwhatthenetworksneedtodo

"Work It" Didn't Work Out

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000

My latest media commentary on the long-delayed but quickly cancelled ABC sitcom Work It and how it might could have actually been something worth watching.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/workitdidntworkout

Of Critics and '2 Broke Girls'

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:16:00 +0000

My latest media commentary is a response to the contentious 2 Broke Girls panel discussion at last week's Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. While much of the focus has been on Co-Creator and Co-Executive Produer Michael Patrick King, the critics themselves also had a hand in how things went down.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/ofcriticsand2brokegirls

Celebrating Viola Davis, Honoring Aibileen

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Below is a link to my latest article, "Celebrating Viola Davis, Honoring Aibileen" where I sing the praises of the actress Viola Davis, highlight some of her most memorable performances and offer my take on her much-discussed role as a maid in The Help.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/essays/celebratingvioladavishonoringaibileen

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Suit"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:03:00 +0000

In the 167th Erick Davidson story, Erick and his boyfriend Chris are on their way to one of his work receptions when an innocuous discussion gets rather heated.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10334812

The Jose Daniel Figueroa Profile

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:33:00 +0000

Photo courtesy of I.D. Photography

The first So-and-So Profile of 2012 is Jose Daniel Figueroa, a Los Angeles-based Meisner-trained actor, print model and commercial artist expanding into the many other areas of film production.

Jose and I discuss the ironic first role that made him want to be an actor, his approaches to craft, career experiences, inspirations and what he says about the old "what restaurant do you work at?" joke.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/profiles/josedanielfigueroa

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Dog Sitter"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:58:00 +0000

The 166th Erick Davidson story has been posted to the Frontiers Magazine website. In this entry, Erick agrees to dogsit for his ex-boyfriend Mitch and Mitch's current boyfriend Cole (Elyke's brother).

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10332717

"Allen Gregory" and "Whitney": What Went Wrong and What's Going Wrong

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:06:00 +0000

I wanted to write about how disappointing FOX's Allen Gregory was after I touted it as my favorite of the new fall offerings back in May. I also wanted to write about what I actually liked about NBC's reviled Whitney out of everything there was to dislike.

Surprisingly, there were some commonalities between the despite one being animated and one being live action.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/allengregoryandwhitneywhatwentwrongandwhatsgoingwrong

The First Erick Davidson Story

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000

No, this isn't an actual Erick Davidson story. It's a recap of the evolution of the Erick Davidson story series as a whole that I wrote yesterday.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/Starring-Erick-Davidson/thefirsterickdavidsonstory

A Midseason Report on the Current Ninth Season of "Two and a Half Men"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:09:00 +0000

Happy New Year...this is my first new entry of 2012.

The first 2012 update to Terrence Moss Dot Com is a midseason report about the current ninth season of Two and a Half Men.

http://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/media-commentaries/amidseasonreportonthecurrentninthseasonoftwoandahalfmen

The Weho Happy Hour with Adrian and Nate

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:19:00 +0000

And here we are...the last blog entry of 2011. It is also the last planned posting that doesn't have the sole purpose of directing you to my new website. Here's to 2012.

I had the pleasure of joining my friends Adrian Rennie (creator, writer, producer and one of the stars of The Cavanaughs web series) and Nate Vincent (also of The Cavanaughs) for the second episode of their new podcast "Weho Happy Hour with Adrian and Nate".

We recorded this on December 20, 2011 over cocktails at Trunks Bar in West Hollywood from about 6:30 to 7:30. The topic of discussion was about the biggest disappointments of the year in Film and TV.

Listen to internet radio with WehoHappyHour on Blog Talk Radio

If it takes too long to buffer, you can also access the podcast through the following link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wehohappyhour/2011/12/30/weho-happy-hour-episode-002#.Tv0XySvk2WY.facebook

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Mother Christmas: California Edition"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:16:00 +0000

The 165th Erick Davidson story -- and the last of 2011 -- has been posted to my new website. In this blogisode, Erick and Chris spend the Friday after Christmas with Erick's mother and grandmother.

https://sites.google.com/site/theterrencemossenterprise/home/Starring-Erick-Davidson/themotherchristmas-californiaedition

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Mother Christmas: Ohio Edition"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:21:00 +0000

The latest Erick Davidson story has been posted to the Frontiers magazine website. In this, the 164th blogisode, Erick meets Chris's mother for the first time when they travel to Ohio for Christmas.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10330518

The Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:16:00 +0000

Let's face it. I'm not going to get hired to do the work that I want to do anytime soon. I don't have the following that some outlets require and those that don't only offer "exposure" in lieu of payment. I'm beyond that so I've decided to take matters into my own hands and create opportunities for myself in accordance with Part 14 of "The Unemployment Chronicles".

I've hinted in the last few editions of "The Unemployment Chronicles" that I had a big announcement. It's not a job in the "I've been hired by some lucky company" sense, but it's work. It's called A Terrence Moss Enterprise. It's the next step in the launch of my writing career. You can log onto it at http://www.terrencemoss.com/.

I've never been a blogger in the blogger sense. When I talk about my blog, people ask me what it's about but my blog has never been about one particular thing. I can say that it's been an outlet for my writing but that just begs the question as to what I write about. A Terrence Moss Enterprise allows me to continue to be diversified with my creative portfolio in a way that's clearer to the reader.

When people typically log onto a blog, they're looking for something to glance at for thirty seconds as they're surfing the net. This has never been a thirty second blog. It was never going to be. Each entry on this site has always been intended to take a few minutes to read but I've gotten feedback from several friends who have told me that my blog is just too long.

Admittedly, they don't like to read -- which is what gave me an idea.

Since I'm not going to shorten my content as some people have advised in order to accommodate the non-reader types, I'm branding my site as a place for people who like to read. The branding is not intended to exclude those admitted non-readers, but to cater to those who specifically like to sit down and read online content.

Despite the closings of Borders bookstores at the hands of Kindles and Nooks, I've never accepted the fallacious notion that people have stopped reading. People are just reading differently now and the publishers are wisely adapting to the new ways of readership (much better than the TV networks are adapting to the new ways of viewership).

People will always read, but there's not much out there for people who aren't terribly interested in political this and celebrity that. That's where I come in. I'm essentially feeding my own need. There's no celebrity gossip. No politics. And no pop-culture nonsense. Just enjoyable, well-written material that flows well from beginning to end.

I follow the sites and blogs that I follow because of the overall content. I expect that people will do the same with A Terrence Moss Enterprise. So there are no gimmicks. There are no eye-catching headlines that get you to read the article but wind up pissed because the headline had very little to do with the article as a whole.

I'm taking what I consider to be the best of the blog and transitioning it over to A Terrence Moss Enterprise. The blog will still be live but I will be using it to promote the website and linking readers to the latest updates. New posts to it will be infrequent and those posts will be the more fun and frivolous entries that can't be categorized by any of the elements of the website.

When people ask me what I write about, the layout of the website will show them. There are links and tabs to the latest Erick Davidson stories, the Unemployment Chronicles (which will take on a different incarnation in 2012), media commentaries, reaction pieces, articles, essays and the highly potentialistic So-and-So Profiles.

The wider content area on the new website provides a better interface for what I do and is perfect for commuters and travelers to view on their mobile devices.

Everyone isn't interested in everything I write. Some people like the Erick stories. Some people like the Unemployment Chronicles. And some people like the media articles. The new website allows readers to pick and choose what they like and follow accordingly.

I'll continue to post to both the blog and the website until next Monday, January 2, 2012. At that point, any new posts to the blog will link you to the latest updates on the website.

Now, I'm only going to mention this once. There's a "Donate" button here on the blog. All proceeds will go toward the business of the website -- advertising, marketing, promotions and swag for those I interview.

I've enjoyed doing this blog for the last 2 1/2 years but setting up this website as my own enterprise is the next step to launching my writing career. My long-term plan is to expand The Terrence Moss Enterprise into something unique and fun for me as a writer and you as the reader.

Thanks for following me here and I hope you'll continue to bring your readership there.

What I Miss About Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:17:00 +0000

Christmas as I knew it growing up hasn't existed for me since 2001. That was the last Christmas we had in Denville (New Jersey) before my parents moved back to Illinois the following March.

Every Christmas since then has been different and in the days leading up to Christmas 2011, I've been reminded of those days gone by moreso now than ever before.

Though we mocked its omnipresence, I miss when It's a Wonderful Life ran incessantly on any number of TV channels.

Then NBC ruined Christmas by purchasing the rights to the holiday classic and attempting to make it an event by only showing it once or twice a year. They should have just left it well enough alone. And it should never have been made available on home video or DVD.

Granted, the picture quality was far superior but there was always something about not knowing exactly which window of the Sycamore place Mary threw that rock.

My father established a tradition of buying a four-pack of Cinnabons on Christmas Eve, hiding them and then waking up Christmas morning to warm them up and serve them with hot chocolate. It didn't matter if we had any place to go or not, that is how we started our day.

I couldn't find the full version of this Mary Katherine Gallagher sketch on the YouTube but it was always a favorite of mine. Rosie O'Donnell was the host of this 1996 episode and Whitney Houston, promoting The Preacher's Wife, was the musical guest. That film's director, Penny Marshall, was also featured in this sketch as an older nun.

Christmas 1996 sticks out in mind for some reason. I remember going to see The Preacher's Wife at Headquarter's Plaza in Morristown with my best friend Jasper. I remember participating in Operation Love at the church, helping put food packages together for needy families and helping deliver them.

One delivery wasn't too far from where I lived. The recipient was a recent widow who was waiting for her daughter and granddaughter to come by. She and I chatted for about an hour. I don't remember her name and her face is a bit fuzzy but I do remember how much happier she was for the company than even for the food.

Growing up in a small town, there aren't too many places to go. We had the Alexis and Rockaway diners, Easy Video and the Rockaway Mall. Even as a teenager, kids and younger teens annoyed me so I more or less hated going to the mall.

Plus I hated to shop. I still do. Except for food. I like food shopping.

During my college years, I always waited until the last minute to shop -- largely out of necessity. My finals seemed to stretch further into Christmas week than other people so I didn't usually get home for break until the 21st or the 22nd. I didn't want to drag a bunch of presents home with my luggage and laundry so that is when I'd start my Christmas shopping. It would all be done at the mall and it would all be done within a couple of hours.

This was before I discovered the brilliance of GIFT CARDS. I've never been a great gifter.

It was always a bit trippy to come home, go to the mall and see people from high school that I hadn't really kept up with after graduation. Even in those early post-graduate years, there was an air of maturity we all seemed to have. I remember running into a couple of former classmates and being genuinely glad to see them. Either that or I was just genuinely glad that I had something more to say than "I still work at..."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I spent a lot of time here. It was the seafood market/restaurant I worked at in high school and throughout college. Christmas Eve was the busiest day of the year and it was packed from open to close. In fact, there was a line out front even before we opened.

We took holiday orders for a couple weeks leading up to Christmas Eve and spent the night before filling orders after hours until about midnight or 1am -- with a break for dinner of course.

Throughout the night of the 23rd and Christmas Eve, holiday music would play over the radio. I specifically remember "This is Christmas" by John Lennon and "The Hanukkah Song" by Adam Sandler playing repeatedly.

I looked forward to hearing them each time because they both put a smile on my face for very different reasons and I could hear them throughout the store no matter what I was doing.

After we closed on Christmas Eve, I'd go home reeking like fish to a house full of family and friends.

I've been in a very lengthy transitional period between the holiday traditions of my upbringing and creating my own. Right now I've settled on just waiting for January but that's no way to spend the last two months of any given year. I want to feel the magic again and for the first time in several years, I believe I will.

The last five or six years have been largely unstable as I moved back and forth between the east coast and the west coast in search of the life I've always wanted to lead. I'm close. I'm finally pursuing that life. I'm two-thirds of the way there. 2012 is going to be that year where I finally achieve that life and establish some stability for myself in this increasingly more unstable world.

I don't know who this guy is but he's on the cover of the JCPenney Christmas catalog and he came in the mail addressed to me. I asked Santa to bring him to me for Christmas.

If he's tall enough and old enough, he might make a great Chris. I'd love for him to appear at my doorstep tied in a big red bow. Perhaps he can help rekindle some of that holiday magic I lost.

I'm just sayin'.

The Unemployment Chronicles, Part 14 - The Final in This Incarnation

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:48:00 +0000

I receive regular emails from Vault, Talent Zoo, Monster and Career Builder about writing resumes, interviewing and getting that job. Most of the time I skim through those emails and dismiss most of the advice they dole out -- not because I know more than they do or that what they have to say doesn’t have any merit – but because I’m just not interested in doing what they advise.

I’ve tried most of their approaches and they don’t work for me. So I come across disingenuous. Some people may be able to sell it, but I can’t. And now that I’m 32, I don’t want to have to. Unless their way actually guarantees me a job, which it never has, then the entire process is basically a crapshoot anyway.

For one thing, I hate the term “sell yourself”. What is there to sell? You either like my resume or you don’t. You’re either impressed by my background or you’re not. Admittedly, there’s nothing in my professional background from the last five years that’s particularly impressive anyway. I never landed a major account. I didn’t grow a small piece of business into a larger one (for many reasons having little or nothing to do with me or my abilities).

The best thing I did do in the last five years was to NOT lose any established piece of business. Can I sell THAT?

This “sell yourself” bullshit is especially encouraged in this current job market where employers have the upper hand as there are more applicants than openings in most industries. Consequently, the entire interview process has become so lengthy, unpredictable and improbable -- even for the lowest of positions – that companies are losing out on really good talent who either find comparable work elsewhere or just take anything in order to bring some money into the household.

One such email from the job search site Vault.com featured an article which caught my attention in a way that didn’t elicit a skeptical eye-roll. It was titled “Stop Looking for a Job, Start Looking for an Opportunity” and was authored by Darren Hardy.

According to the article, we are in the greatest times of opportunity in human history -- if we know how to seize them. Hardy goes on to provide seven strategies on how to seize those opportunities:

1. Adapt to the new reality.

2. Stop looking for a job and start looking for an opportunity.

3. What do you have?

4. Who do you know?

5. What problem can you solve?

6. Return to self-reliance and self-responsibility.

7. Take control of your future!

These strategies reminded me of a Time article from 2009 titled “The Future of Work” with lessons on how to succeed in the new American workplace -- one without briefcases, offices, benefits, old-school bosses, corporate ladders or retirement – by figuring out a new path into a world of opportunity.

The article was published a couple of weeks prior to my resigning from the ad agency I worked for in Massachusetts. I wanted to be a part of that new workplace. I figured it would serve me better and my ever-evolving mindset than the old one.

But because I needed the money, I wound up back in an old-school workplace that wanted to be more new-school as long as it could still practice old-school workplace tenets. When I was mercifully and gladly laid off in July, I remembered that issue of Time (which I still have) and decided that I was going to focus even more on my writing and find some way to eke out a living doing so.

When that Vault email hit my inbox in November, it just reinforced what I had been doing since July.

And now I’ve taken the next step.

Since the layoff, I’ve looked into a lot of writing opportunities – some of which were in line with my capabilities. A lot of them were not. For some people, it’s a foot in the door. For me, it’s another delay.

I know what kind of writer I am. I know what kind of writer I want to be. I know what I have to offer. I have a pretty good idea of where I can fit. I don’t know all the opportunities out there and I remain open to them. As long as I keep writing, I can stumble upon that elusive perfect job. Better yet, that elusive perfect job could stumble upon me.

The message that I received from both the Vault and the Time articles is that the current job market is forcing many of us to chart our own paths and create our own opportunities in a world where many are being taken away.

It is for this reason that I am doing what I will announce on Monday.

Starring Erick Davidson - "The Film Crew"

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:45:00 +0000

The 163rd Erick Davidson story has been posted to the Frontiers Magazine website. In this blogisode, a film crew unexpectedly disrupts Friday Happy Hour at Larrabee's.

http://www.frontiersla.com/blogosphere/starring/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10329662

The Unemployment Chronicles, Parts 12 & 13

noreply@blogger.com (Terrence Moss) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:03:00 +0000

It sickens me that Perez Hilton got as far as he has with what he claimed on Ellen he was going to stop doing. At the same time, kudos to him for being able to make a living doing it.

I take my blog very seriously and ever more so now. Still, I have my moments of self-consciousness where I question if other people are. People ask me what I’m doing for work. I tell them I’m writing. Then the follow-up question is, “right, but what are you doing for a job.”

Maintaining my blog is work. I may not post everyday, but I work on it everyday. I don’t just shit out stuff and throw it up there like linguine. I think on it. I toil over it. Sometimes I’m completely satisfied with what goes up. Sometimes I’m nervous about it because I feel as if I should have spent a little more time on it but it was what it was and I needed to get it done to work on the next thing.

I’ve been posting actor and actress profile. I was nervous about it at first. After all, who am I? I’m this largely unknown writer who does this blog. It’s a great blog. It’s a blog I’m very proud of. I am very pleased with my output. I’m very pleased with its evolution. I am very impressed with the ideas I come up with for the blog.

People ask me how many readers I have. I don’t know. I don’t want to worry about the numbers. I am not going to change shit to boost readership. I’m not going to turn it into a pop culture-oriented, celebrity gossip site. There are plenty of sites for that. It won’t be mine. I have something interesting and unique that has something for a lot of people – fiction, TV, commentary, op-ed, love stories, etc.

A lot of blogs are focused on one topic. I can’t do that. I write about a lot of different things. I’d have to maintain about twelve different blogs. What started off as a bit of a catch-all variety blog with no clear focus has re-evolved into that but far more anthological with several different foci.

As proud as I am of my blog, I sometimes wonder at times if people are secretly mocking my efforts behind my back. Maybe they are. Maybe they’re not. Maybe they’re truly impressed. Maybe they’re jealous. Maybe they just don't give a shit.

So what do I do for work? I’m a writer. What will I do for work? I’m going to write. How will I make money? Writing. How? Not sure. When? Not sure.

I may wind up needing supplemental work but the writing comes first. That’s the way it’s going to have to be. Call me silly. Call me unrealistic. Call me delusional. Call me what you will. I need to do this. This is my time. This is my opportunity. This is what I wanted.

This is why this latest bout with unemployment (my third) has been far more fruitful than the previous two.

I know this much -- that I have never found work by actually looking for it. I've just taken advantage of opportunities that somehow came my way.

I also know this much -- that my previous two bouts with unemployment ended just in the nick of time. Though the stakes seem higher this time, there's no reason for me to believe that it too won't end just in the nick of time.

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So…shit got pretty real a few weeks when I was sent a lease renewal notice with a rent increase.

Did the building’s management company not read my comment on the survey THEY sent me where I requested a month-to-month lease and a $100 DECREASE in rent? Apparently not.

Still, I refuse to move. Between LA, NY and MA, I have had TEN (10!) different addresses over the course of the last ten years.

If I have to move again, I am getting rid of everything that will sell – including the carpeting. I started walking through my apartment thinking about what I could get rid of. Though I spent five years building my DVD collection, a sad and painful visit to the “we buy used” section of Amoeba Records on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood is probably in my near future.

I then took to Craig’s List to post for a roommate to share my one-bedroom apartment. It’s doable but the problem is that people who would be willing to do that are probably in their late teens or early to mid-twenties and noisy as hell. Older people who are quieter aren’t going to want to sleep in a living room. I sure as hell don’t want to. I did that for nine months after returning to LA from NY.

I’ve gotten three responses so far and neither panned out. The first guy opted out. The second guy was a girl. I lived with a girl before and it’s unfortunate that she and I aren’t really friends anymore. The third guy was also a girl but she didn’t need the apartment until June of 2012.

Talk about planning ahead.

The reason why I refuse to move is because I deserve to live where I live. I want to live where I live. Despite the dog-friendliness that I didn’t even realize until I had lived in the building for seven months, I like living where I live and don’t want to move.

For all you realists out there, the fact that we don’t always get what we want is beside the point because there’s no reason on this earth why we shouldn’t. Just because we are told that life isn’t always fair doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be and I’m going to occupy some shit until it is.

I think a lot about all the possibilities. They are scary. I constantly wonder if I’m doing all I can to ensure some semblance of a near future. I don’t know. I just do what I know to do right now – which is to write. And keep writing. And then keep writing some more.

I just really wish Facebook hadn’t changed their interface AGAIN. It really screwed up my readership.