What I've Been Thinking

It’s been a few days and I realized I’ve got to get my thoughts up!

What’s been on my mind lately? Number one, the current screenplay I’m working on. It’s about one of the relatively unknown founders of Las Vegas who has more to do with the original city than anyone – yet after going to grade school in Reno (granted, Northern Nevada views southern nevada (not cap’d on purpose) as nothing more than their rich, bastard, step-sibling), living in Las Vegas for twenty years and actually being pretty well informed about the valley’s history (from 1905 on – that was my downfall), I’d only heard minor passing references to Helen Stewart. Her life and times are fascinating.

Two, the stimulus package/pork barrel. If it’s a stimulus package, let it stimulate. This package doesn’t seem to have enough job creation or consumer-level spendable money associated with it.

Three, the GI Film Festival in Washington DC. I wish I could be there; we need this kind of festival. It’s not exclusively pro-American, but it is pro-soldier and our military personnel aren’t given near the amount of respect they deserve. Did you know that if you start out as a Private E-1 right out of high school and want to make a career of the military that by the time you hit ten years in, if you don’t have a bachelor’s degree you’ve gone as far as you can. Most senior officers (majors and colonels) and noncommissioned officers (senior sergeants) have master degrees. We have the most highly educated military force in the world – yet the press portrays them as yokels. Support a soldier today!

For now, that’s pretty much it.