Draper VS Kent

Versus




Monday was Valentines Day, and while many got struck by Cupid's arrow, those of us who are first year students in CreComm got struck with the reality of having to choose a major by Friday at high noon.

For some, it was a no brainer. They just knew. Perhaps they knew the first day they walked in to the college, but for me and some others it was a little more complicated.

 I have never thought of myself as an indecisive person, when I see something or someone I want in my life, I go full hearted and headstrong, despite the obstacles.

In this case, all the obstacles were like seats in a game of musical chairs.
All seats look inviting but where was I going to run to, when the music stopped.

I felt like I had the world on my shoulders all week, as I treked uphill on Wishy Washy Road.

Thursday night I had it narrowed down to two..............

Should my career path emulate Donald Draper or Clark Kent?? 

Draper is hard hitting in a board room and longs for hard alcohol and easy women.

Kent is hard hitting in the world and longs for the girl he finds intoxicating; who he finds hard to get.


They both have identity crisis's.

 Draper is the agency hero and complex and Kent is complicated and has a hero complex.

I would have rather been wrestling with Hemingway than all the thoughts that punched against the walls of my mind this past week.

The music stopped.

With four chairs to run to, I remembered a quote I had heard two nights before:

"Good Journalism makes things happen"

It was at that moment, I felt like Atlas; the moment he shrugged.

 It allowed myself enough room to slip on my cape;  I have always been more the Clark Kent type anyway

  

Chasing after "THE" girl and trying to make the world a better place through example.

I headed for the journalism stool where I will sit perched in hopes to change the world or at least the way people see it.

I am a warrior and my pen will be mightier than my sword. (Well, my laptop actually)



With my nice guy personality and my hero complex, I am aiming to be a super man and hoping to be a good journalist.

And who knows.... maybe my Lois will one day, come around.

The first rule of Fight Blog is you must comment on Fight Blog.

If you are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world....What is your song?

You are the heart, you put into life.
You are the character you write for yourself.

You are not the course of your major, but the course in which you take yourself. 

Write Blog

I have always been hit hard by words, the way they can be manipulated and punch you in the soul as if the meaning behind them comes in the form of brass knuckles.

I love stories, life is a story, and like Shakespeare said the world is a stage, but maybe instead, it is a giant manuscript and rather than players on a stage, we are all characters in this great unwriiten novel as we try to scribe it as we go along.

Each of us a protagonist in our own story as we overcome our own adversity and strive for success and to find love and acceptance; which could be equivalent to our publication.

I myself, would love to be a great author as I throw down words that move people, gashing them open as they bleed emotional response. With a pen that is mightier than my fist
I'd like to create characters that someone can relate to and see themselves in.

This would be my world title belt, sitting in my own personal ring, in which consists of an eight foot fold out table, a stack of my creation, with a cup of good coffee and a line of people wanting me to sign their copy.

"Dude, you really spoke to me," he throws out.
"Where do you draw all that heartache from," asks she, as she slaps me with her earnest intensity.

This all sounds like a dream, well, one of many for me anyway... but how does one make the trek from pen to paper to publisher (fingertips to keyboard realistically althought it doesn't have that romanticized ring to it).

What if you don't have anyone in your corner, in your fight to become a published writer.

Well, no need to throw in the towel because you can always self promote.

There are different ways one can do this..... one of the perks, of living in this modern world.

One can incorporate it into an ongoing blog as in Seen Reading where Julie Wilson combines fact and fiction and has developed quite a following doing it.

I'm an old fashioned guy myself; I want to be shelved.

There are ways you can self publish, there are companies such as Trafford Publishing to name the first one that comes to mind, where you can pay them a set fee, and they walk you through the steps to self publish.

Social media can greatly be used to your advantage to bring awareness to the story you want to share with the world. Twitter and Blogging can help with creating the fanbase of the manuscript you have poured your soul into or like Wilson, your creativity doesn't have to come in book form.

We live in a digital world of blogging and ebooks and as much as I try to ignore it a lot of the more romantacized mediums may be dying.

Although that may be, if you have a dream to write or let your creativity shine, don't let that die, and don't go down swinging.

I am a man who dares and dreams....and in the midst of many, lies being published.

The writing world is much like the dating world, full of rejection and having doors slammed in your face, however, at least in the writing world, self publication is the rock waiting to be thrown through a window.


The first rule of Write Blog is you must comment on Write Blog.

One must first have a good dream to make a great reality!

You are not the rejection you recieve!

Packers Vs Steelers

You are not your Football team!

That is why football fans of Winnipeg will be happy and not Blue tomorrow as they root for the team that can either Pack a punch or Steel a hit.

Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will be duking it out in the 2011 Superbowl.

With the Steelers having won six out of the seven Superbowls they have played in, fans are expecting a TKO by the end of the game.

Even if it is a slow moving fight for the win, I guarantee black eyes by half-time.

The Black Eyed Peas take the stage along with R&B high note Hitter Usher and infamous axeman Slash.

The arena this Fight will take place in is the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the first Superbowl to be held in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Lucky for fans that the Superbowl will be held indoors as many might not be tough enough to fight off the cold temperatures Dallas is currently experiencing.

Plus I'd hate to see Slash's leather pants crack while he gets frost bitten nipples.

As per usual you can also expect Advertisers not to pull any punches as they hit us with their best shot while slapping us with their top products.

I am not as much of a die hard football fan as many of my friends, and although I won't be Knocking back beers at a Superbowl party like many I'll be at work rooting for the Southpaw Underdogs.

While our hometown Blue usually ends up looking like Chumps in the final round....I predict  good ol Green will be looking like champs like in Superbowl 31 and have their moment in the sun (metaphorically of course, since it is an inside game) and have their arms raised in triumph.

I like both teams, but the romantic in me says root for the underdog so that's what I will do and hope that Green Bay will send Pittsburgh packing.

You are not your coach's plays!
You are not the ring you fight in!

You are not the game that beats you!

You are the heart of the game, that beats!