You Say You Want Diamonds and a Ring of Gold...

Well, hello world!

Honestly, I have no idea.... as in, what I'm doing.... as in, with this blog anymore... look, I love you all, you know this. And, yes, this should come as no surprise, since it should be obvious to all that my ability to upkeep this blog has been waning the past few months. I know I've addressed this on occasion here. And I know there are very few things online that are sadder than a dying blog... but I'm afraid facts are facts... my interests are expanding elsewhere, while my interests in keeping this particular plate a'spinnin' is fading away like the last rays of sunlight at dusk...

Am I saying good bye? No. I'm so friggin flighty, I could be back here tomorrow with a handful of cool things to share.... or I could be a month or more missing from action before you hear from me again... at this point, I just don't know...

I've been asked to be an integral part of the writing team for the web series (called Beyond the Impact) that is set to start filming at the end of this month...

Happy New Year, by the way...

And so my thoughts are bent toward that in full at the moment... as well as continuing to develop my own character for the series... I need to assimilate and imbibe all of the ideas that Jeff (the director) has for the story he wants to tell, study all of the characters needed to tell this tale (not just my own) and the worldbuilding elements that he has decided on, and try to make magic with it all. It is intensely creative and fascinating to me, on a scale I've not experienced before in my many years of play-writing, directing and acting. It's where my creativity is being poured, to the detriment of other things, like my novels... and my blog. Usually, I would pull up the blog, hit "new post" and go for it... lately I see that "new post" option and instead, I shrug and scroll away...

Sorry.

Of course, it's easy to vastly overestimate the importance of this blog... hey, it's my blog, and it means a lot to me; therefore, it must also mean a lot to everyone else! The truth being, of course, you likely don't give this blog any thought whatsoever most of the time, and maybe occasionally hop in to see if I've updated... this is how it should be, of course... I'd hate to think any of you check this blog daily, hoping against hope that I've somehow summoned the juju needed to fire off a bunch of hot air... if that is you, you have my apologies...

All that to say, it will be even more unpredictable around here in the next few months. I'm sure once the episodes of the web series start to appear online (Jeff is talking 12 episodes now instead of 8), then I'll be on here pimping it, hoping to create buzz among the 3 of you that still read here, but until then, who knows?

And now, the coolest tattoo I've seen this year so far...

Come on, that's awesome...

Also, among my entertainment-related goodies I got for Christmas was the first season of Newsroom. Let me say that Jeff Daniels is awesome. Enough said.

Got a bunch of Amazon gift card dough as well, so I'll have no trouble buying far too many books when they drop to $2 or $3 bucks randomly (I check the price on my wish list books all the time, lol)... of course, I already have more books than any sane man should have, but hey, it's a cheap hobby... all it costs is a lot of time and a little bit of money, right?!

What else?

And now, All I Want Is You, by U2, from the legendary Rattle and Hum album (1988).



You say you'll give me a highway with no one on it, a treasure just to look upon it, all the riches in the night....

So, yeah, I hope you're doing extremely well. I shall drop a notice on Facebook when I update here... if you're on my friendlist, you're set! If not, send me a friend request! I'm the David Wagner with the photo of Indiana Jones as the avatar.

Adios for now,

Dave the Wayward Son