Magic spells are fairly easy to do. First you have to pick a system, then use the right power source. Sex is a good one. You must empty your mind.  Like so many things, tho only way you can have it work is if you give up your attachment. Abracadabra.

There was an ancient wise man far up the mountain, past freezing rivers, steep cliffs,  and deep chasms. The spiritual journey was described, by those few who returned, to be the hardest thing they had done in their lives, and the most profound. Imagine my surprise to find him dead.

Go on, let it all out.

How do you really feel anout this?

There’s no need to shout.

Ow. My feelings.

But.

Fine.

Look, let’s not get nasty.

Oh you want to go there? Well fine.

I was such a fool.

That wasn’t what I meant at all.

You win.

I am putting together some writing samples and I want a place where I can keep it all in one place online. I figure the blog is the best place for that. If you are reading them on facebook and are annoyed, I’ll quit it. Also, I get to share my work with my community (shudder), so let me know what you think.

There’s this underlying shame about online dating that women sometimes share. I think it has to do with the online dating experience that most pretty girls end up having on dating sites. They are the victims of these online “cat-calls” from men and their mailboxes are filled with messages that are either inappropriate or offensive.

What  works for me is to be totally and 100 percent real with what I put out there in my profile. I want to show who I am. Sure, I choose the most flattering pictures, but they are current. Sure, I try and try and sound intelligent, but I am being truthful. Whenever I meet someone in person, any lies are going to show right up. In person is the reason we are doing this, remember?

When I send out messages to girls, I like to comment on their profile and try and find some common ground. I always, no matter what, write a new message to each girl. It’s also really important to not get discouraged as a man, lest you become a jerk. These women are getting so many messages, they may not be responding because they have a full inbox, or they just gave up on the site. I’ve heard some girls say that they get hundreds of messages a week. Wild! The ratio of messages sent to messages received back means I am doing a lot of work and getting very little return.

Have fun and play!

One of the things I have learned, in my last couple of years as a single man is that it’s important to love without attachment. This is not to say that I am ready to bolt right out the door. No, I am about loving fully without being attached to a result (like sex, relationship, or my “list”).

By giving up that there has to be some kind of outcome, I am able to be fully here in the now with the woman I am dating. I am able to just “be on a date” without focusing on my strategies for getting what I want.

But then there is the loving part. I find that part of the reason men are confronted by the word “love” is that they have been burned loving in the past. In the ongoing process of letting go of that pain from previous rejections, I can find myself loving fully, even someone I’ve just met.  Not crazy stalker love, but a calm, peaceful, human love.

I’m not attached to it going anywhere other than right here, anyway.

“Sir Richard?”

“Can’t ya see I’m busy? I have this model, I’m on my private beach and like twenty six of her closest and naked friends. We were gonna have a party”

“Yes sir. But you see Mr Branson, I’m from the World. We want you to fix it.”

“Bollocks.”

It’s been a rather hard couple of months for me and my grip career, it seems like years. Work has been sparse for me. Summers have always been a little slower for the film biz. This Summer is the slowest I can remember. In addition, the non-film industry festival gigs I have worked the last few years with The Do Lab have either gone away or cut budgets to the point that there is no space for me.

I’ve been keeping busy, of course.

My writing partner Duke Cullen and I have been working really hard on this spec adventure screenplay. It’s really fun. Lots of booby traps and cockpits and giant reptilian monsters.

I’ve been reworking my resume and getting Linked In dialed in. I figure I may be able to get some work in that realm.

Those who know me on a personal level know that I am a pretty amazing personal coach. I am an expert in relationships and getting what you want from your life. So, I am taking on coaching clients. More to come on this.

I am also looking to create a freelance copywriting business for myself. Every website in the interwebs needs content. I can create content for anything. I’m excited.

But to you, my community, I ask your help. I want to be working on something great. I want to be making a difference in the world. I am weary of just getting by financially.  I’m ready to make some big career changes and I have no idea how that will look. Please keep your eyes open for me, please listen for that perfect thing for me.

I will too.

Too much is just enough. The way of audacity dictates that one must constantly push her or his limits to remain on at the crest of the wave. If your mind tells you “whoa, that shirt is too crazy,” then you’re probably at that perfect just right temperature of cool.

Driving into the desert. We’re heading to an old abandoned mine in Death Valley. There have been sightings of some thing out there, some reptilian thing.  We’re going to debunk this thing. My expectation’s that it’s another rubber mask scare gambit.  Why do they have to call it Death Valley?