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I have a curious form of writer’s block going on lately. I think of an idea. I totally flesh it out and know the idea in and out. I even run the idea by other people and see if they like it. If they do, I get prepared to write about it. Then when I go to write about it I just can’t do it. I get nervous, self conscious or suddenly end up hating the idea. It’s weird and I don’t really know what to do about it. It’s pretty infuriating actually.

I do have an idea though. Ideally, this writer’s block is caused by a failure to concentrate. Why am I unable to concentrate? There could be a lot of reasons for that, but the one I choose to blame it on today for the purpose of this post is that I have too many thoughts. I can’t focus on a single thing because I am trying to focus on a lot of things. Basically, I have too much on my mind to properly concentrate. How do I solve this? Well, I just sort of spit it all out. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW. Sounds fun, right? Well, let’s get to it.

• I really have to stop thinking about winning the lottery. If I buy a lottery ticket I am almost guaranteed to spend one to two hours figuring out what I am going to do with the money based on the amount of the prize. For instance if I buy a Badger 5 ticket and the prize is $15,000 I will break down what I spend every dollar on within a half an hour. How do I know? Because I did this last week! Here’s what I did with the money:-$7000 used BMW I know someone is selling
  - Pay off all my credit debt $3000-$5000 (shut up)
  - LCD flat screen. $1200-$1800

  That should leave me with enough money to buy a few more Brewers tickets (9 pack) and get current on all of my bills. As you can see $15,000 is just not enough money.

• It becomes even worse when I buy a Powerball ticket. For instance a $25 million prize minus half for taxes leaves me roughly $12 million.- Buy and/or payoff houses for my entire family. ($800k)
  - Buy two cars for myself. ($50k)
  - Buy THREE places for myself. House in Lake Geneva, Milwaukee condo (for Brewers games) and West Coast home or condo. ($1.5m)
  - Take a ton of people on vacation to Disney World. ($10k, we’re really going to go crazy.)
  - More cars! For everyone really close to me. (Let’s say eight people times $18k, roughly $150k)
  - ONE MILLION IN SAVINGS: Nolan.
  - ONE MILLION IN SAVINGS: Me.

  That’ leaves me with roughly $7m dollars which is… you guessed it, not enough! How am I supposed to start my production company with a measly $7m?

• Yeah, I really shouldn’t buy lottery tickets. I think I just hate free money. If I win a football pool, I never spend that money on my bills. I always just blow it immediately. Why? I have no idea.
• I watched Fast & Furious last night and I think that movie may have broken the record for most times I have ever either known what was going to happen or said a line dialogue before it actually happened on screen. It was awesome. Not a good script, film or movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I did enjoy it. That movie made $343 million worldwide by the way. Maybe I shouldn’t be so self conscious about my writing.
• Speaking of cars, I have really been into them lately. Watching a lot of Top Gear on BBC America and generally trying to push Nolan to being into them. (Veggietales probably has a lot to do with that. Cars are so much cooler than Veggietales.) I’ve thought of doing something like buying a car that’s all messed up and fixing it up myself. I don’t know if this came from Adam Carolla or what, but it’s definitely different. When I lived in Alabama I did a lot of work on my own cars, but that was always out of necessity more than anything. It’s not like I was good at it or anything. I’m sure this will pass, but it’s definitely different.
• I really just want a BMW. They’re just so nice.
• I’ve also had the idea of doing some construction. I think this one is because of Adam Carolla. I just don’t see why I couldn’t buy a fixer-uper and fix it up by myself. I’m detail oriented! I’m good with my hands!/hangs a picture unlevel
  /hits finger with a hammer
  /chokes on sawdust

  Nevermind.

• I just checked my lottery numbers. I didn’t win. I didn’t even get one number. Why did I play the lottery again? Oh, yeah. That. What? Nobody won? It’s up to $57m now? Well, I could..
• My bottom lip has been chapped a lot lately. My top lip? Not at all. This is very annoying.
• Was Janeane Garofalo ever funny?
• I watch a TV show called L O S T. I always have watched it since the very first season. I have always had the questions and have always taken a joy in win those questions were answered. That being said, when this final season is over I am pretty sure I will never watch it again. I just want to know the answers to the questions, I don’t really give a shit about the characters and don’t care to relive any of it. That is why this is not the greatest show of all time. It’s a very good show that did a great job of keeping your interest, but that’s about as far as I’ll go. There’s a reason they don’t show reruns of LOST like they do Law and Order. You can only live once, you know?
• What is the best TV show of all time? Good question. I’ve thought about this many times. The Wire is absolutely amazing. Great storytelling, great characters, great everything. The thing is it’s not really a shot, it’s more like each season is a 12 hour movie that you watch in parts. You can’t have a “favorite episode” because it’s really all one episode. Is that a knock? Sort of. Like Buffy is amazing too for completely different reasons. Tons of “classic episodes” that diehard fans like me know by heart “Once More With Feeling”, “The Body”, “Lie To Me” and “Hush” can be picked up at any time and watched. (I named all those off the top of my head, btw.) It’s a great show, but it was better in season two than it was in season seven and that’s no good. Angel ended up being stronger than Buffy at the end, but I am not sure if I can forgive certain episodes of the first season. (Yes, they were that bad.) Still, Angel has the greatest final episode in television HISTORY and that has to stand for something. I love the Veronica Mars gang more than any. Season one is the greatest single season arc that I’ve ever seen. I love all the characters, but that’s probably not the best show of all time. Or it is, but only to dorks like me. (Here’s how good the Angel finale was. The last episode of Veronica Mars I started crying because it was over. The last episode of Angel? I screamed “YEAH!” at the last scene. I was just as sad it was over, but it was that good to make me react like that.) Wonderfalls is my other absolute favorite, but it’s only one season of 13 episodes. They nail it, but longevity has to count for something. Battlestar Galactica? Great buildup to a horrible end. Deadwood? Love it, but what is it without the swearing? Sons of Anarchy? On it’s way. The X-Files? Way too uneven. Let’s go:1. The Wire (What I’d say if someone asked me what the best show of all time is.)
  1b. Veronica Mars (The show I would watch if I was only allowed to watch one show forever.)
  2. Angel
  3. Buffy
  4. Wonderfalls
  5. Sons of Anarchy
• I’ve never watched Breaking Bad, The Shield, The Sopranos, 24 or Twin Peaks. Yeah, yeah.
• You may notice I didn’t mention any comedies. That’s because you can’t really compare an hour long drama to a comedy. It’s impossible. That being said, here’s my top five TV comedies with considerably less thought put into it:
  1. Seinfeld (simply the most rewatchable show of all time)
  2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  3. Arrested Development
  4. Coupling (UK)
  5. The Office (UK)That’s more off of memory for the last two because it’s been awhile. I remember when I first got into them thinking they were the funniest things I had ever seen, but I may have to move 30 Rock in there somewhere.
• Okay, one more list. Off the top of my head, my five favorite wrestlers of all time:
  1. The Rock
  2. Chris Jericho
  3. Eddie Guerrero
  4. Bret Hart
  5. Stone Cold Steve Austin
  HONORABLE: Macho Man Randy Savage
• I would never, ever attempt to do that with movies because I know that it would take me somewhere between 10 hours and 15 days.
• Okay I know what I said, but I really want to do this one since not everyone likes wrestling like I do. Five non-Chris Benoit killing his family moments that make me embarrassed to watch wrestling:
  1. Vince Russo in WCW. (Luchadores=tequilla, Buff Bagwell’s mom, David Arquette, et al)
  2. Mae Young gives birth to a hand.
  3. That whole Katie Vick thing.
  4. Mr. McMahon dies.
  5. Big Bossman making Al Snow eat his dog.Ugh.
• If Darius Rucker becomes Jay Leno’s new band leader then Hootie & The Blowfish is dead to me. You hear me? DEAD.
• After all this time I still love this song.

That’s all I got. Hopefully tomorrow I can go back to being a semi-creative person.

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