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Creative Conflict or ADHD?

Jackson — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:57:36 +0000

Recently I experienced a creativity conflict. It’s the reason for my lack of posts and the reason there hasn’t been a new TRJE podcast in a few weeks. Some would say I suffer from writers block, but I say nay to these people (to which these people say, “Nay? Really? Who talks that way?”) I have loads of ideas and tons of material to write about or talk about – but what I don’t have is, well, that’s the problem. I don’t know what it is I don’t have.

This goes back to an old discussion I had many years ago with a manager (who I believe heard it from a politician) – it’s about 3 important things that will help you plan.

Known Knowns. These are things you know you know. Or in other words I know something and I’m aware of it’s existence. I know how to post to my blog – and I know that I know how to post to my blog.
Known Unknowns. These are things that I know I don’t know. For example, I don’t know Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the population of Bismarck, ND or how to bring a woman to orgasm. But, if I need to know these things, at least I know I need to look them up and learn.
Unknown Unknowns. These are the most important things on the list. These are the things you don’t know, but you don’t even know that you don’t know these things. For example, um, well, never mind.

The secret is #3. If you know that, you can plan for anything. Unfortunately, the fact is, there is no way to deal with or address #3. If you know of it, it’s #2. It’s just another way to say, “Shit Happens.”

Anyway, that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. I’m not even sure how I ended up talking about it. Oh well. My problem is I have so much I want to do, I can’t figure out which one to focus on. Even writing this is distracting me from my creativity.

Actually most of this is a lie. Just like the cake.

Thanks for listening, I’m so sorry you had to read it.

Tagged: conflict, creative, einstein, known

Female or Amateur Female?

Jackson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:56:40 +0000

While browsing ads on my local Craigslist recently, I came across the following:

“Looking for an amateur female or female to take adult style photographs of me (I’m male) I can provide the digital SLR camera also if needed. I do not have a location to shoot, but would be up for shooting at whatever location is comfortable. Contact me if you are interested or have any questions, thanks.”

I found so many things interesting about this ad, I had to blog about it. Let me break it down.

“Looking for an amateur female or female” - I’m not exactly sure of the difference between a female and an amateur female, but I think a female is born with a vagina and an amateur female still has a penis but looks like a mighty fine woman (can someone say Bailey Jay? Google or Bing the name, you know you want to.)

“to take adult style photographs of me (I’m male)” - Everyone who reads this thinks of one thing and one thing only. Penis. Look at my penis. I’ll be naked and I have a penis. Did I say penis?

“I can provide the digital SLR camera also if needed” - This just means he is packing more equipment than just his penis.

“I do not have a location to shoot, but would be up for shooting at whatever location is comfortable.” - I’m married and want to meet you at your place or some hotel room. Your place is better as you may have a cute roommate and after I’m naked and you see my big bad penis we could have a threesome. Then I’ll “hide” the pictures on my hard drive and accidentily post to Facebook and twitter.

I know some of you are thinking that I placed the ad. Guess you’ll have to answer it to find out!

That’s they way I see it, sorry you had to read it.

Tagged: bailey jay, craigslist, naked, penis, threesome

Reset; Edit; Cut; Damn It!

Jackson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:26:41 +0000

So here’s the story. I’ve been “blogging” on the web long before anyone knew what it was. I loved to write for the web, posting my ideas, opinions and other stuff for dozens of people to read (only dozens because it was long before good search engines). But eventually everyone was able to blog, I no longer felt special and my drive to write for an anonymous audience left me. So I stopped blogging and pulled a SOPA on myself!

Then I started a podcast. That was the ticket. Podcasts were not as mainstream yet, so I felt a bit like a rebel. But then that became popular (the medium of podcasting, not my podcast) and I began to question why I was doing any of this.

And then it hit me. I had started to fall into the, “I care what other people think” mode of thinking. WTR (what the regis) was wrong with me? I mean OMFR (oh my fraking regis)! What had come over me? Caring about what other people think! How dare I!

Well, that’s going to stop. And I’m going to start up again – blogging about whatever the hell I feel like and podcasting about whatever the hell I feel like. I’m moving domain names around and working on a way to shave my sites down into just a few. I’ll have the podcast site (http://regisjack.com), my blog/writing site (this site, but have a few domains point to it), my professional site (the site under my own name – for my day job) and finally my religion site (a work in progress – had a domain, but never followed through).

2012 will be a year I take back myself and my multiple personalities and get back to being me.

Thanks for listening (or reading), sorry you had to hear (or read) it.

Tagged: blog, care, domains, regis jack, regisjack.com

Alone at Last – NOOOOOOO!

Jackson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:43:12 +0000

There used to be a time when I loved to be alone. That was a time where I could get somethings done, not have to answer to anybody and, of course, not wear pants. Being alone was like a deep dark well, damp, quiet, but always comforting.

But all that has changed. Sometime over the past few years, I’ve gained access to feelings. Yes, you heard me. Actual feelings. My feelings. And while I’ve been in touch with negative feelings for quite sometime, it’s the positive ones that cause all the troubles. Trouble such as, missing my girl when she’s gone and, um, well, that’s the pretty much the driving force. I admit, everyone needs time apart, but not to much. I know I’m ready to admit that.

So, besides masturbation, I found another way to cover for these emotions – by watching Lost. And after about 60 days of 120 episodes of Lost, I found it be a great distraction. But now that’s done. I’ve tried to replace it with Eureka and Psych but neither has the appeal of Lost. I lined up several movies on Netflix to watch, but it’s just not the same.

I could be distracting myself by writing the script for Regis’ next podcast, but I’m not. I’d like to say I’m avoiding writing, but, um, well, I’m writing this, so I guess I’m avoiding being alone by updating the blog. This is almost like talking to other people, but not really (since no one reads this blog – I’m pretty sure about that because I don’t tell anyone it’s here).

Anyway, I forgot what I really came here to say. Sorry to disturb you. Go back to sleep.

Wait… I mean….

Thanks for listening, I’m so sorry you had to read it.

Tagged: alone, psyche

Well, Now I’M Lost

Jackson — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 04:03:29 +0000

Back in the day, when the Internet was new and we were just realizing that it could be used for more than just porn, I was blogging. Back then that made me unique. I was part of a small collective of people. We weren’t even called bloggers, they didn’t have a term for us. We were just geeks. I was writing stuff for the web for years before social networks and standard blogging platforms were in use. But now, even as I type this, I realize, writing stuff on the web doesn’t make me special, it just makes me normal.

Well that sucks ass, and not in a good way. So what the hell am I supposed to do now?

Recently I turn my attention to ‘Lost’ the TV series. That took up about 44 minutes times 120 episodes, on average, with extra time to read what the crazy bloggers of the world thought about the show. I did this in less than 60 days. This made me realize that I need to get back to writing. To exercise my creative side.

And that’s just what i’m going to do. Slowly. But I’ll do it. If I can get back into blogging, I can probably get back to writing that great American novel I’m trying to write.

Thanks for listening, I’m so sorry you had to read it.

Tagged: blog, bored, Lost

Finally, I Don’t Care

Jackson — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:30:37 +0000

I just returned from spending 4 days at the beach and I have realized that for those 4 days, I didn’t give a crap about anything. It was great. But instead of writing some insightful, yet entertaining blog post about, I’m just going to make a list of what I remember from the beach.

iPad was great for navigation (although I could really use better directions)
Butt Fuzzies
My fingers prune when it rains, but in and around the ocean, nope.
Bitch Slapped by the waves
Naked
Dead Jellyfish *sniff*
Tiny Crabs (spider-like) used for fishing bait
Watching the sunrise, even when it was hazy
It burns when I pee now
Watching the moon rise
Bleeding like a stuck pig
Big Ass Hole (three words)
Let’s talk about drinking (but shoot me in the head first)
Sleeping to the sound of the ocean.

That’s all for now. Sorry you had to read it.

Tagged: beach, crabs, ipad, jellyfish, naked, ocean

Hickory Con Spring 2011

Jackson — Mon, 16 May 2011 01:52:20 +0000

Was at HickoryCon this past weekend – turn out was a bit slow this year – but that didn’t stop me from show up as the Renaissance Stormtrooper and for Regis Jack to appear as, well, I’m not exactly sure. Besides meeting up with friends, I met a comic author, Phil Juliano who writes a comic titled “Best In Show”. He’s cool, it’s cool check it out.

http://bestinshowcomic.com/wordpress

You can also find pictures of me and Regis somewhere on his main page. But if you can’t find them, I’ve included some snapshots here as well.

Regis Jack as ????

It's Me, Phil, Vader and the infamous Fett

Tagged: hickorycon, regis jack, stormtrooper

Ow.ly is 4RAPE

Jackson — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:32:22 +0000

So I was on my Facebook stream and came across a story about the Indiana Government and Planned Parenthood. The story itself was not important, but they used ow.ly as the service to shorten their URL for the store. The shortened URL was this …

http://ow.ly/4RAPE

Yes. You saw that right. 4RAPE for a story about Planned Parenthood!! I’m not sure if this story will still be there after word gets out, but damn that’s a quirk of technology and fate.

Tagged: ow.ly, rape

Omeeeega

Jackson — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:01:37 +0000

Let me take you on a journey, if I may, that leads to the ultimate destruction of my soul. It won’t be short, and I’m sure parts of it will not be worth the trip – like the recent end to Stargate Universe. I mean, come on! You knew you were ending the series, why couldn’t people die tragically, or get stuck for 3 million years in stasis only to find out a race of beings evolved from your cat and your only companion is a holographic representation of your dead bunk mate. I admit, I was happy to see where it was going as a show, but FRAK! I wanted more. Anyway, where was I. Oh yeah. Journey, not the band – although they do have some good songs. Did I mention my mind tends to wander?

Anyway, please join me as I express my feelings and thoughts in small pieces -for better or for worse.

Actually, this will probably be my last post as I get distracted easily.

Tagged: red dwarf, SGU, soul

Dark Passenger

Jackson — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:05:00 +0000

In following in the footsteps of my anti-hero Dexter, I have come to terms with the fact that there is a Dark Passenger inside all of us. It pushes us, urges us, and even dares us to do what some may say is unspeakable. Unfortunately my Dark Passenger is an accountant.