The Plan
Now that I've snuggled myself out, caught up with reading the friendslist (@ skip=140, geez you people write a fuckton), made that LOLrockstar, and cooked the boy Molly's Mom's Meatballs, it is time to hammer out the Plan.
The Plan: Make Dallas Cool.
It's a multi-step process, so bear with me.
I. Start group activities that appeal to the neat people we already have, and add fun and value to our network. Give up resource-depleting Starbucks habit to fund initial stages of The Plan.
II. Develop better networking skills to foster connections among the people here and more closely tie them to one another. Give up time-consuming projects like internet addiction to make time for this.
III. Start a campaign of luring cool people away from Houston, Austin, and eventually the rest of the world. Give up on idle plans of moving to a cooler city in favor of making a cooler city.
IV. Get a higher paying job to fund the neat culture that brings people in. This plan requires it. Take fewer day at current job, and explain The Plan to any cranky customers. IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!
V. Become politically active to mitigate and prevent the negative legal impact of local government ordinances. Ban the suck!
VI. Find others who have similar plans and coordinate with them. Articulate and further develop goals and intermediate steps. Give up habit of either doing everything myself or letting plans drift into other people's hands and then languish.
VII. Have fun and share it around. Make Dallas a better place to be for creative expression, mainstream involvement in counterculture, and personal acceptance.
Future blog posts on this subject to include:
Behavioral modelling of Jenn, Tommy, and other social hubs.
Sharing daydreams of what Dallas could be if we invest in it.
Illustrating the attitude that most creative metropolitans have where they wish they lived in Austin.
Cost/benefit ratios of each decision process within the plan.
The Plan: Make Dallas Cool.
It's a multi-step process, so bear with me.
I. Start group activities that appeal to the neat people we already have, and add fun and value to our network. Give up resource-depleting Starbucks habit to fund initial stages of The Plan.
II. Develop better networking skills to foster connections among the people here and more closely tie them to one another. Give up time-consuming projects like internet addiction to make time for this.
III. Start a campaign of luring cool people away from Houston, Austin, and eventually the rest of the world. Give up on idle plans of moving to a cooler city in favor of making a cooler city.
IV. Get a higher paying job to fund the neat culture that brings people in. This plan requires it. Take fewer day at current job, and explain The Plan to any cranky customers. IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!
V. Become politically active to mitigate and prevent the negative legal impact of local government ordinances. Ban the suck!
VI. Find others who have similar plans and coordinate with them. Articulate and further develop goals and intermediate steps. Give up habit of either doing everything myself or letting plans drift into other people's hands and then languish.
VII. Have fun and share it around. Make Dallas a better place to be for creative expression, mainstream involvement in counterculture, and personal acceptance.
Future blog posts on this subject to include:
Behavioral modelling of Jenn, Tommy, and other social hubs.
Sharing daydreams of what Dallas could be if we invest in it.
Illustrating the attitude that most creative metropolitans have where they wish they lived in Austin.
Cost/benefit ratios of each decision process within the plan.