The hammer has fallen and I am finally losing my job. To celebrate, I am digging through my journals and reminding myself how much it sucked:
August 2012:
Work did not turn out as badly as I expected today. This is another way of saying it is one of the top ten work days in my career history. I expected for months and months worth of tiny fuckups and general laziness to be exposed today, and that I would be rightly castigated. But my boss is too busy.
I always think: he’s an asshole, but it’s also true that I fucking suck at my job and I don’t give a fuck about it. I do not give a fuck about movies and TV shows and the various processes and means of support necessary to make these things. The whole enterprise is too much motherfucking work for very little return. There are too many hustlers and opportunists and salesmen cluttering up the phone lines and making it impossible to actually see material that is good. There are too many people trying to be screenwriters. It is too easy for them to get agents and managers, and too easy for these agents and managers to call me with these shitty screenwriters’ projects and waste my time and exhaust me and it’s because I’m afraid of saying no to them. And in some corner of my soul I find it offensive because I think I’m a better writer than these people. Which is not the case. Three paragraphs a day about jerking off does not compare to writing a fully realized screenplay, no matter how stupid or unfunny it might be. Continue reading




