{"id":2933,"date":"2012-07-19T14:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:31:26","slug":"an-idea-wednesday-july-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/an-idea-wednesday-july-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea – Wednesday July 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyday I walk past the Wrigley mansion and think “Goddamnit! \u00a0Why don’t I have a solarium with big flowering jungle trees and a few pairs of finches flying around who are specially trained to poop in a bird litter box?” \u00a0I would never read The Enquirer or People Magazine on the extra-wide tufted chairs or put a television against the thick rounded 19th century window glass. \u00a0I wouldn’t even say swear words so help preserve the balance of the room’s energy. Not the “F” word anyway.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I see an advertisement for Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” and I think “Goddamnit! \u00a0Why didn’t I write a best selling novel about working in a restaurant and become the host of my own show where I travel around the world eating exotic dishes and maintaining my rail thin figure?” \u00a0I don’t like exotic food but I could just have the cameramen cut away right before I was to take a bite. \u00a0Figuring out how to overcome this hurdle proves that I deserve it.<\/p>\n

In the mornings I listen to the This American Life and I think “Goddamnit! \u00a0Why didn’t I create an award winning radio program for NPR where I got to interview all kinds of personalities and authors and become sort of a quasi-celebrity and have all these cool author\/artist friends” \u00a0I would channel my jealousy of the really interesting people into passionate interviews. \u00a0I would not use words like “meta” or “banal” unless I was being sarcastic.<\/p>\n

At night, in the few minutes of quiet after Hazel has gone to bed but before she’s woken up wondering where the hell everybody is, I read a book. \u00a0I think “Godamnit. I could write a book. \u00a0Well maybe not a whole book but surely I could write a few short stories. \u00a0I could easily write an essay.”<\/p>\n

But last night, I finally had an Idea. \u00a0At long last, this Idea is not a quasi-autobiographical trip through the follies of my young adulthood, or a thinly veiled memoir about my time at boarding school. \u00a0This is an actual IDEA.<\/p>\n

So now what? \u00a0Now do I really have to just start writing? \u00a0Here’s a Hazel picture to look at while you think about what I should do….<\/p>\n

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Everyday I walk past the Wrigley mansion and think “Goddamnit! \u00a0Why don’t I have a solarium with big flowering jungle trees and a few pairs of finches flying around who are specially trained to poop in a bird litter box?” \u00a0I would never read The Enquirer or People Magazine on the extra-wide tufted chairs or … Continue reading “An Idea – Wednesday July 19th”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3297,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/3297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}