Announcement.... of a sort.
So after much thinking last night and this morning... I decided something. I'm going to go ahead and write the book I've been meaning to write for the past 4 years. It will be called "Confessions of a Jersey Diner Rat; Growing up in and out of a subculture". It's going to be a tongue-in-cheek memior of growing up and basically living at the diner for 6 years of my life, the subculture that is the Jersey Diner Rat, and basically everything Jersey.
I'm actually quite serious about this, and have a friend looking into publishing houses to see how long a sample should be, if there might be any interest, blah blah blah.
Funny thing is... I'm not a fucking writer. Yea, I'm kind of amusing... but I'm the kind of amusing like... watching a kid wearing a hockey helmet get off a rollercoaster and walk right into a wall. Ok... I just laughed while typing that, meaning I'm an awful person and I'm going to hell.
I wanted to write this book 4 years ago, but at that point I had wanted it to be an almost expose on the much maligned sub-culture of the Jersey Diner Rat... but then I realized I'm not nearly eloquent enough to write any kind of expose on anything. I say fuck far too much to be eloquent. So that went right out the window for not only that reason, but also because at the time I was still a diner rat, and couldn't look at it objectively.
Now I can't sit at the diner for 8 hours, drinking cup after cup of coffee and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes... why? Because I'm too old and I have a job. So the basic outline of the book is beginning with my introduction to the culture, living it for a good many years... then the final realization that I'm now and adult, and how much that sucks. It's going to ramble, I won't stay on topic much... but since when was that really something people cared about?
Now should there be NO interest in this book by publishers (which I sincerly doubt there would be... I'm a fucktard, I can't write a book), what I'll do is I'll write the book anyway... and just post it online for your reading enjoyment. Hopefully I'll have the full book written by the end of the year... if not... you may dress up like Mickey Mouse and spank me.
Please?
I'm actually quite serious about this, and have a friend looking into publishing houses to see how long a sample should be, if there might be any interest, blah blah blah.
Funny thing is... I'm not a fucking writer. Yea, I'm kind of amusing... but I'm the kind of amusing like... watching a kid wearing a hockey helmet get off a rollercoaster and walk right into a wall. Ok... I just laughed while typing that, meaning I'm an awful person and I'm going to hell.
I wanted to write this book 4 years ago, but at that point I had wanted it to be an almost expose on the much maligned sub-culture of the Jersey Diner Rat... but then I realized I'm not nearly eloquent enough to write any kind of expose on anything. I say fuck far too much to be eloquent. So that went right out the window for not only that reason, but also because at the time I was still a diner rat, and couldn't look at it objectively.
Now I can't sit at the diner for 8 hours, drinking cup after cup of coffee and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes... why? Because I'm too old and I have a job. So the basic outline of the book is beginning with my introduction to the culture, living it for a good many years... then the final realization that I'm now and adult, and how much that sucks. It's going to ramble, I won't stay on topic much... but since when was that really something people cared about?
Now should there be NO interest in this book by publishers (which I sincerly doubt there would be... I'm a fucktard, I can't write a book), what I'll do is I'll write the book anyway... and just post it online for your reading enjoyment. Hopefully I'll have the full book written by the end of the year... if not... you may dress up like Mickey Mouse and spank me.
Please?