At first, I almost decided to do a movie review as my blog entry. This is something I like to do occasionally when a good movie stands out to me. I used to submit reviews to the NYT when I went to the movies, but when I watch them on DVD, I would just write them and save them. But thanks to the venue of Facebook, I can now share them with my 394 friends (or at least those who choose to read this). But I will save the review for later, as I found a more interesting topic in my inbox this morning. So, in spite of the fact that I skipped last week and completely ignored yesterday’s deadline, here is today’s blog.
I don’t feel quite so bad about my lack of consistency after reading W. Bruce Cameron’s subscription newsletter where he apologizes by saying
“I did notice that I neglected to send a few columns there for a couple of months. This is after shooting off my big mouth about how I was going to be reliable and always send them out and I had a new system. Frankly, I’d fire myself, but I can’t find a replacement who will work for the same pay.”
I will freely admit that he is among one of my great inspirations to write this blog, and he is very funny on a consistent basis. For those of you who don’t know who he is, he was the source of inspiration for ABC’s sitcom “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter,” one of John Ritter’s last performing roles (RIP Mr. Ritter; you were classically funny). He is also the source of possibly one of the greatest email forwards that has been circulated and re-circulated for as long as I’ve had a desktop PC and that is “The Chili Cookoff” where he…well it’s so dag-on funny that you will have to read it for yourself, so I will now shamelessly and freely advertise and solicit for him by saying in order to share in my laughter, you can go to http://letters.webvalence.com/listmgr/subscribe?lists=TheCameronColumn and subscribe for yourself. He promises not to be overly intrusive and will only disturb your inbox twice a month; not bad for a good humorist. And he gives you “The Chili Cookoff” (the original) as part of your reading pleasure. You can also Google it, but you will more than likely get the modified version with the character of Frank. Again I will mention that he is where I ascribe to be and hopefully keeping up with his column will keep me on the straight and narrow path to writing.
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