Althusser was so Damn CORRECT...

I'm telling you. Oprah is a FU*KING machine. (Pardon my French) I just saw a show based on a concept I sent her producers via "fan email" about a year and a half ago. I wrote her awhile back and told her I wanted to be on her show once...and I wanted to give away ALL the money Oprah would make in interest on that one day....to needy, polite and helpful people whom I observed doing nice things for others...because I loved the feeling I got from helping others and how addicting it was for me.... I added the scene from Bill Murray's "Scrooged" for effect to make my point.

Dammit...You can have ALL the best ideas in the world...and if you're not driving the right car...or living in the right zip code...or eating at the right table in the hottest eatery at the right time of the year...you're never going to "BE"...

Thanks Althusser...

and Oprah for backing up his theories.

end of rant.

Kills me.

Oprah...you have cankles!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Kleinheinz on February 29, 2008 at 9:46pm

T.J.

Remember Sears Toughskin jeans? If you wore them when you were a kid, you'll remember that when you wore the knees out, there was that inner white layer that was made out of some super tough material that was pretty hard to rip. I promise, brah, that's how you'll become in this business. You'll get ripped, shipped, and flipped, but the rock hard underbelly of inner fire that made you make whatever mid-life transition you made to get into this remain. It may taste like Everclear sometimes, but it'll get you through the tough days. I've followed your trajectory since joining this SN, and your willingness to pony up in this ongoing discussion shows you're a design man. And that's what you want, right? I'll take you in a Texas cage match over Abdol any day. Buddy, he's a city boy from the north. Gotta watch them.

Gotta add this in for anybody that's reading. I did really have a make the logo bigger dork today. I asked her if she was raised by wolves. She didn't get it. She wore art dork glasses.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on March 1, 2008 at 5:35pm

I understand that, MK...thanks for the vote of confidence...really. People and their daily rationalizations just kill me. I'm sure the Harpo producers are like "he should have read the fine print...ha ha ha , his bad"

yeah, I do have other ideas on the constant gray matter skillet...I'm just going to be a bit more cautious with them...

Oprah lesson #1 ALWAYS WEAR A CUP

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Permalink Reply by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer on March 1, 2008 at 11:13am

Best Regards, Oprah

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Permalink Reply by TJ on March 1, 2008 at 5:23pm

They misspelled "your"...it should be "You're"...not "your my bitch"...sorry nit picky like that....

Well I will say this for Oprah and her evil idea stealing minions...she can kiss my pink parts (covered in blue).

And I want everyone to know that as they're watching ANYTHING that has to do with ABC's show..."The Big Give"

that it was honestly and truly my idea...

Oprah...right here woman...

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Permalink Reply by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer on March 2, 2008 at 7:43pm

Listen, I good friend of mine, is a good friend of Oprah's.

This I can tell you this for sure... Oprah is damage goods. Oprah has issues, many. Oprah has a lot of hand-ups, a lot. Oprah has scare tissue from being abused. Oprah is NOT what she appears to be. Oprah's employees have to sign all sorts of non-disclosure forms to keep their jobs by keeping their mouths shut about her and her activities ... is there any fucking doubt about that in your mind from what you know about Oprah, what you have seen of Oprah, and her modus operandi, hello? That is the impression I get, and I wasn't born yesterday, or the day before.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on March 4, 2008 at 3:23pm

Well the Oprah machine continues to roll over everyone and everything. And they have totally bastardized my original idea with that monstrosity of a show. Wonder how her PR people are going to SPIN that one?

Whats so hard to understand about giving someone a million dollars and telling them to go do something good for someone else...EVERYDAY? I would have LOVED to watch THAT show.

I'm never EVER going to send her show another idea...unless I GET TO SPEAK TO THE WOMAN IN PERSON. They owe me that at least that much. Thanks for the nods...they really do mean something .

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Permalink Reply by TJ on April 2, 2008 at 5:48pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4LLwkgmqA&feature=bz302

WOW...apparently Oprah has a bigger penis that Jesus.

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Permalink Reply by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer on April 5, 2008 at 10:06pm

So I hear. I think she calls her penis Gayle.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Powell on April 7, 2008 at 10:54am

I only ever steal people's ideas and tweek them - so much easier then coming up with them. This way I know they work, a bit like the industrialisation of the US but I digress a tad. When I do come up with new ideas they seem such hard work to implement / sell, I only want to be one step a head max, too many steps ahead and you leave them behind...you know who "them" are right?

Take an idea and make it work - that makes commerical sense to me. It's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

I hate hearing "I came up with that" stories - worse than bad luck poker stories - I lost on the river - boo hoo etc.

I tried to sign Ricky Gervias when I was a theatrical agent 9 + years back when no one really knew him - boo hoo....