They say Jealousy is a sin, but I get jealous. I'm jealous when I hear stories about Ted Turner driving over to a Lost Boy of Sudan in a suburb of Georgia and giving him a ride to his private doctor, never telling him who he is.
If I had $$$ like that and could do stuff like that, I'd be cool. I like this jealousy and am not seeking any therapy to purge my Charity jealousy. Keep it comin.
As I read blogs working at Lijit, I come across Publishers who just lay it all out. Their business plans, how they came up with them, how they are implementing them, total transparency. Or dads with wives who leave them raising the kids alone. Or writers sharing their story ideas to the world. This makes me jealous, being 'beat' at transparency. I thought I owned the word but I don't come near enough. I understand some say its foolhardy to spill investment plans, ideas in planning stages or family secrets, but in the blog world, sharing relevant thoughts that are honest, and provide value, is the commodity. Often works in progress make for the best blog reads, the format is about work in progress. Legally, describing an idea on a post, I suspect a Publisher is also establishing a paper blog trail.
Here are 2 of my 'secret' blogs I've registered, where I have the idea for, but like many of us, not the time to work on. I will 'release' more of these work in progress blog ideas each time I hit upon a Publisher so transparent, I get this same spasm of Honesty Jealousy.
VC Wino
There are tons of well written informative Venture Capital Blogs. A VC's job is to ride the next wave before it hits the shore, so its no surprise VC's are a big community in the blog world. What would happen when an errant inheritor of great wealth launched a blog? Like a DuPont who owns a tank in the driveway, or the son of Spam?
VC Wino. All the wealth and none of the class, offering tips from funding street con's to fooling with people making serious proposals. Posted phonetically.
TV Theater Blog
This is a project from my college days. I wrote an original Star Trek Script, complete with commercials, for the stage, "The Demons of Kristah." The idea was to mimic the TV experience in a Theater, including stretching cellophane on two posts across the audience's field of view, like glass tube separating them from the show. We performed it to good response at Wesleyan, and it was performed on an aircraft carrier at sea. The script calls for actors to sound out the sound track; elevators whooshing, the dramatic "WA WA, WA WA" at suspenseful moments, McCoy's medical sensor, Spock's Tri-corder, etc. Audience at first laughed, but quickly accepted the live spoken and sung sound track as the story unfolded. The idea is to bring elements of live theater into the TV format, so there is a marriage of both Live Theater and TV mediums, not going to the theater to see a TV show you could at home.
TV Theater Blog lets writers post new or original scripts based on the format of popular shows, like The Honeymooners, or Cheers, for live production. This movement is already happening a la Mel Brooks and Xanadu movies being made for Broadway now. TV Theater is a way to re-invigorate local live theaters in towns around America, perhaps once a year, to draw the huge demographic of Americans who lay on the sofa engorging on TV and have never put a foot into a Theater.
Th-Th--Th-That's All for now Folks!
Barney
Grateful Word
