- 10:28 PM, Monday,
May 1st, 2006:
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- Every now and then
this happens. You do what anyone would do in your
situation: you take in the news, you deal with it, you
accept it, you get bummed out, you work it all out in
your head to be "ok" with it, and then you
remember one thing... you have to do an entry and
video about it.
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- (sigh)
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- This is why
I still contend this "Journey" is the single
hardest thing anyone could ever do live. 'Cause
not only do I have to come to some sort of
conclusion for myself, I have to explain that
conclustion here when all I want to say is: "No
interview, not sure why". Whereas that may have been
an appropriate length of an entry in 1999, it doesn't
fly in '06, and those who have followed it this long
deserve more.
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- I had left an
email Friday without a response and figured I'd just
give her a call as I realized she may be in DC all
week and I wasn't gonna have this looming that
long. She just politely said "We'll keep in touch".
She emphasized that they played it on Thursday (which
I couldn't be more thrilled about) and that we'd keep
in touch. She said I'm sure you're going to be doing
more videos, and they want to see them. I thanked
her again and said I looked forward to hearing from
her. And that really was it...
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- Do I think
something happened? I really don't think so, but
you can't help but wonder. Most likely, they just have
a full plate. The cartoon is most definitely fluff,
and it went well with the "protest theme" of last
week, now there's other stuff. There are so many
things that could've happened. The "Away go the
colored people" line just keeps poppin' up in my
head and that someone in a high position complained.
Olbermann wasn't the host that night, maybe he saw it
and was taken aback. Maybe it was only newsworthy to
them the following day, and by this week - it didn't
fit? Wild guesses. Welcome to my "Woody
Allen" brain of over-thinking everything ad
nauseum. I guess you just have to wait. So what's
my rationalization for all this?
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- "WAHOOOOO the
cartoon was on national television! WAHOOOOO my name
was on national television! WAHOOOOO my face singing
was on national television!"
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- I mean that
was more than I could have dreamed for the
cartoon, but obviously we were all excited about the
interview. That was the floodgate to all sorts of
shit. And to not know why is pretty tough. This is
where having a good publicist helps. They can be the
assholes and figure shit out, whereas I'd come off
ungrateful no matter what. But the truth is there
probably is no "why" and the producer doesn't even
think twice about it because it happens sooooooooooo
regularly. Unknowing that there's been a 6 1/2 year
build-up to this point on a blog. LOL. So to anyone
from MSNBC reading:
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- HOLY SHIT THANK YOU.
It was a huge thrill and I'm so grateful for the
coverage!
- I hope
to do more! You'll get first crack at the next
one!
- In fact, I'm just
gonna write to her now:
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- Amy-
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- Thanks again for
the coverage on Thursday...I can't believe
how much you played!! I sincerely hope no
one was offended by the "Away go the
colored people" line, I can't help but
think that ruffled some feathers and was
one of the first things I wanted to clear
up in the interview. It's a joke, I know
Bush doesn't have a hurricane machine to
take out black people (it takes out white
people too) :-)
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- I'm working on a
little cartoon bit of me being interviewed
on your show to make you guys laugh, and
to show you what a thrilling and wondrous
interview it would be.
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- :-)
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- Again, thank a ton.
You made my year.
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- Adam
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- There, that felt
better. :-) And you really never know. Something may
come up and they contact me again. And now I have a
great contact for anything else I may do. How cool to
be able to send something directly to an editorial
producer? Christ I feel like I'm consoling my
kids. HAHAHAHA. You guys were so excited for me and
most of you missed the bit on Thursday so you were all
looking forward to seeing the interview. It was like
your little payoff for reading this thing for
SEVENTY SIX MONTHS. You could finally turn
on your TV and go - "I've followed his
whollllllllllllle journey".
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- Behind every
letdown, there's a creative solution.
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- Adam
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