Taco Bell
Arby’s
Chipotle
KFC
Popeye’s
In-and-Out
Skyline Chili
Checkers
Church’s
White Castle
Carl’s
Hardee’s
Jack in the
Box
Sonic
Blimpie’s
Jersey Mike’s
… You know
what? You try to come up with content
every week! You try to write
something fresh after 16 years of doing this! Because let me tell you, mister,
it ain’t easy. I work a full week of editing others’ articles and coming up
with an editorial calendar for a new publication, and then I’m just expected
to, what, tapdance for your amusement? To dance for nickels down at the dock?
I’m tired and it’s hard sometimes. I try to entertain people with slices of
life, childcare stories, parodic plays, TV recaps, political screeds and all
sort of curiosities. And sometimes that well just comes up dry. Sometimes it’s
another week and you stare at the calendar and have nothing to say. And that’s
when the void opens up. Can’t you hear it howling?
I can. It’s that giant emptiness into which slips all your inspiration. You
rejoice because you finally have that one idea and it crumbles under the weight
of inspection and down it goes, into that void from which nothing can possibly
escape except the laughter that mocks you. So you try this sometime.
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