Hello, my name is Dan and this is my DT Log.

This is what one of the dining room walls look like now:

I call this a “goal storyboard” – there are nine main goals with a stated, simple accomplishment described underneath.  I’ve labeled each goal with a letter, color and icon for filing purposes.  Anal-retentive?  Probably.  I’m the type of guy who likes things need and orderly in presentation.

Under each category, there are projects on note cards, and even sub-projects.  My goal now before New Year’s Day is to sync up my computer and my external files, and of course, work on some of these.

Goal F is “make movies” and I have that huge task above it: Producing a $20 million movie in 2014.  It’s a long shot, but I have a plan.

I have been preparing a copyright document to protect some of my intellectual properties.  It consists of poems and short stories I have written from 1988 to date.  Once I edit it all together, I am going to publish at least one copy for myself from Lulu.com.

A year ago, I brainstormed titles for this collection.  Here is the list of possible titles:

Radio Silence

Bent and Broken Antennas

No More California Songs

Walden III

End of the Impudence

Abandoned Bridges

The L-Shaped State

Head Mileage

Standing Still Yet Still Moving

A Fertile Drought

Welcome Back the Rain

Intermittant Beeps

Thirty Dollars in Chemicals

First Quarter Score

Fine Print

Touchy Subjects

Forever in Transition

Contact Sheet

I did settle on one of these based on Bronwynn’s suggestion.  Let’s see if you any of you guys can figure it out.

Introduction

Ten years ago, when the government was wasting its time trying to impeach President Clinton for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, I was probably at my most cynical.  Here I was, a registered Republican for four years trying to come to terms with some of my more liberal social beliefs, hoping to reconcile with the hardliners who made it their goal to enforce prohibition of every immoral act they could imagine.

Never mind that morality is subjective, and a socially conservative regime could easily declare nose-picking to be inherently iniquitous and jail people for it.

So I was in the mood to skewer faith-based groups, especially at the very local levels.  I thought to myself, Hmmm… Catholic church, Methodist, Episcopal: there are some perfectly good traditional places of worship out there.  So who is this Happy Valley Outreach Community Worship Chapel anyway?  And why are there 80 similar places in East County, scattered about the landscape as ubiquitous as taco shops and gas stations?

Then I found an “invitation flier” attached to my screen door.

Let the parody begin:

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