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[Hairy Lime]

And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter.

No, too easy, even for me.

[Walter Sobchak]

We will see what happens.

Some thoughts  --

Long-winded self-pitying postings, relentlessly zooming in on past experiences (dog washing, Suzanne Pleshette, ancestors of note, childhood poverty, etc) should not be what is happening. 

Your writing is mediocre and tedious to read.  The reason you are well into middle age and haven't published or sold a script is your natural talents lie elsewhere.  (my guess is that you are a people person who would make a good social worker, counselor, paramedic, or a range of other helping occupations)

You aren't going to be present and live fully in the present until you stop spinning endless vineyard dreams in your brain or imagining some unattainable level of wealth and glamorous company.  Those are shallow goals anyway, and you can do better living simply and connecting with the struggling people you seem to really care about.  You have kindness and compassion and empathy, which are a thousand times more valuable than a fat wallet or making a splash in showbiz.

Salute,

Caliban

[FlyingVProd]

I had a roommate in one of Lisa's houses who was a Franciscan Monk, his name was Skip, he lived in a house over by Dick Van Dyke in Malibu, and Skip was living with the homeless people so that he could go back to Malibu and teach the other Monks how to help the homeless. He wanted to live with the homeless in order to teach the other Monks how to help the homeless.

I can help other people to benefit from experiences that I have had.

Right now we need for Church buses to take the homeless people to Church on Sundays, to the Calvary Chapel Open Door and to other Churches. The rich companies need to donate Church buses to the Churches in order to foster better communities.

And I write better with a team of writers, when it comes to movies and television shows I need to write with a team. And for making movies, and for anything in the Entertainment Industry, then I need a team, I need to surround myself with smart and talented people.

I also need to find a good smart wife, I will never make it on my own, and I want a family.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

Salute,

Caliban

At least you can say you tried.

[LarryB!]

And then, having met someone, for the young couple it's "meet the parents"...basically for approval..
In my case, I wasn't quite what the girl's mother had in mind as a boyfriend for her daughter.

No, too easy, even for me.

Indeed

[FlyingVProd]

There have been murders all over Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and San Bernardino has the worst crime in California, and it is only getting worse.

The answer is to get the homeless people into Church and to teach them how God wants for them to live. God wants to bless all of us, and he wants for us to have great communities of Christians. If we want for the crime to go down, then we need to get the homeless people into Church on Sundays. And we need to teach the homeless people how to be a part of a good community where people help each other, and then we can transform society.

We need schools, libraries, and Churches, in order to help the homeless, and in order to improve society, and there is a lot more to having a community than just having housing. There needs to be housing, but there also needs to be schools, libraries, and Churches. And Wellness Centers, and Mental Health Centers, etc, are needed, etc.

We can make society better but people have to care. And also there is Kiwanis International.

But right now, I do not want to ride the trains and walk the streets. I have my own little neighborhood where they all know me, and I stay mostly in this neighborhood.

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu.]

Re-runs of As Tony World Turns now streaming non-stop on Elba 2.

😴😴😴😴

I like Tony's stories...and it's not like the forum is 'rush hour central'.

Easy for women to find love, just dress in not much and hit the clubs.
Very, very, difficult for a poor man..."hi, would you like to catch the bus to Maccas (McDonalds) for a small fries and a drink"?
Very difficult for a middle class man too, if he's not a 9 or 10.
Family?  Good for about 12 years, until the kids hit high school and the marriage ends.
Then the misery and financial horror start.
One minute the man has a home, then he comes home from work one day to an empty house, the wife gone with the kids and all the furniture...divorce papers on the kitchen bench.
Then the man has to pay alimony and child support, tossed in prison if he doesn't.
Who'd be a young man in the West today, especially in America?

[Oiled]

What's cute and fluffy and passed out on the lawn?

[facilitatorn]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/09/los-angeles-school-workers-labor-deal

[Hairy Lime]

What's cute and fluffy and passed out on the lawn?

The Ether Bunny!

[FlyingVProd]

When I was a teen back in the 1980s I had a friend who had a poster on his wall of a beautiful red Lamborghini with a beautiful woman in a swimsuit sitting on the hood of the car, and at the bottom of the poster it said "The Benefits of a Higher Education." He was motivated to do well in school and to go to college and to get rich and to get the hot babe and the car.

And for the wonderful Doctors, the Doctors need to be rewarded and they deserve to be rich and they deserve the beautiful women and the nice cars.

When I lived in Malibu I rented a room from the ex-wife of Sammy Hagar's family Doctor, Jeff, Jeff was rich and he was a Doctor to the stars, and he owned a bunch of nice houses in Malibu, he liked to invest in Malibu real estate. Jeff is a wonderful guy, and he deserves to be rich. And his ex-wife Peggy was very nice to me, and she welcomed me into her family and into her family home. I worked as a limousine driver for Gemstar Limousine at that time, we were the official Limousine Service for the Jay Leno Show, mostly I took people to the airport, and I picked people up from the airport and I brought them back to Malibu, while I tried to get work as an actor. Anyhow, I was able to see how the wealthy Doctors live in Malibu, and they are well rewarded.

In the 1980s everyone wanted to make money, and for my group we associated getting an education with being able to earn more money.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

Happy Easter everyone.

He has risen.

Spread the word that we need for Church buses to drive around picking up the homeless people and taking them to Church on Sundays, we need for the rich people, like the guy from "My Pillow" to donate buses to the Churches.

Salute,

Tony V.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/08/when-techbros-circle-jerk-becomes-a-circular-firing-squad/

[facilitatorn]

May all you fields be fertile, Tony, according to the do respect we pay our ancestors and the spirits of the land.

[FlyingVProd]

May all you fields be fertile, Tony, according to the do respect we pay our ancestors and the spirits of the land.

Thanks!

I wish you the best as well.

Salute,

Tony V.