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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:52 PM
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i am the eve plumb of du: the sad story of sundog (warning: sad)
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:27 PM by sundog
Rated PG 13 For Mild Language, Adult Situations, and Sadness


So, I've been thinking a lot today...

The execs called this morning and said the "Squid Week!" pilot won't be going to series next year... so it looks like I have some time on my hands now...

But where does one go from here?

I always feared I might be typecast after the raging success of "Shark Week!"... and I knew they were going to pressure me into a spinoff... I KNEW it...

"Let's do something different," I said, "Let me play Macbeth... I want to be Macbeth!"

But they insisted on "Squid Week!"... and I agreed... sign the dotted line...

And the deal smelled bad from the get-go.

Now, here stand I, sundog... a child prodigy with nowhere to go.

Here I walk these streets.

What shall it be?

As I wander aimlessly in this dizzy haze... and the people in the shopping malls point and say, "Hey! There's that guy from 'Shark Week'," and hurry back to their warm homes and tell their children they saw the guy from "Shark Week!" today at the mall and ask them to pass the potatoes and gather by the fireplace and carry on with their merry lives...

Relegated to the occasional sitcom guest spot...

or worse yet playing myself in a spoof film version of my own show ...

maybe some daytime TV work...

Or worse of all back to auditions once again... and I, sundog, like a young schoolboy awaiting tickets to his first Peter Cetera concert... only to find out it sold out... "we'll call you"

Tossed like a minnow in the cruel riptide of fate...



FUCK - one allowed per PG 13 rating
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:54 PM
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1. Sometimes you have to suffer for your Art.
:hug:

I totally understand. :(
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:55 PM
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2. Art Carney?
Art Buchwald?
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:58 PM
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4. Garfunkel.
:evilgrin:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:56 PM
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3. thanks dk
i'm feeling better now that's off my chest
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:59 PM
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5. Angst is very normal
and healthy, I say. :)
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:01 PM
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7. i normally don't air my grievances here in the lounge
but i had to talk to someone
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:01 PM
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6. sounds like you have no porpoise
Maybe because sharks are scared of them. There must be some station that is showing re-runs of Flipper. Will that help? Maybe Free Willy 3-D?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:03 PM
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8. I would really appreciate it
if you would guest-post in my cat pee poll.

:pals:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:06 PM
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9. maybe that will get my will get my career back on track
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:09 PM
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10. All the influential people
read my polls to see what the latest trend is going to be.

:)
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:11 PM
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11. maybe i'll be discovered again...
maybe
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:26 PM
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18. You never know
if you don't get out there and try!

Chin up!
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:32 PM
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29. thanks for your kind words
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:16 PM
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12. Oh, that's too much to read...
but I know you worked hard on it, so here's to the effort!

:kick:




:D Gotta watch out for that undertow...
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:18 PM
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13. yes, it was lengthy... i know
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:20 PM
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14. *sniff* .... *sniff*....
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:22 PM
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16. i'm just waiting for the young children to start throwing rocks at me
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:22 PM
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15. I didn't see sufficient mild language to rate a PG-13
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:23 PM by Richardo
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:28 PM
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22. check again... i updated it just for you
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:28 PM by sundog
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:29 PM
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23. That's better .... I *guess*
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:25 PM
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17. sundog as Eve Plumb: "Mollusk, mollusk, MOLLUSK!"
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:28 PM by Richardo
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:26 PM
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19. panda panda PANDA!
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:27 PM
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20. sundog? i think your malaise is catching.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM
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25. i'm sorry i suggested you should kick your guest out on the street
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM
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27. i don't know where she is....or when she is coming back
there is nothing to kick.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:27 PM
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21. Maybe you can get the squid a cameo on "Iron Chef America."
He's got to work, you know.

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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:29 PM
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24. i guess... he's frozen solid now
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belladonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM
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26. Thanks for the smile
Just sitting here eating a quick bite before I run off to work and skimming DU and I see this. You're the best, sweetie. Miss you lots :hug: :hi:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:31 PM
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28. oh my sweet belladonna
thanks for visiting me in my sad hour

hehe :bounce: :loveya: :hug:
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:34 PM
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30. Sundog, you so crazy
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 03:34 PM by MadAsHellNewYorker
I wanna have your baby :hug:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:36 PM
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31. ok!
:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:39 PM
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32. i can't find
the 'Adult Situations'
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:40 PM
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33. when the adults see me in the mall & point, miss kitty
it's not very nice what they do
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:50 PM
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34. That's sad
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:04 PM
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35. Can't your agent get you some commercials for British television
That's what fading American stars usually do after all. :shrug:
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:05 PM
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36. for what product?
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:10 PM
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37. Shaving cream
Or maybe a male depilatory - I know how much time you spend ridding yourself of body-hair.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:11 PM
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38. no, nothing that will eliminate my manly chest hair... maybe booze ads
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:19 PM
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42. British booze ads all carry a warning though
Albeit in pretty small letters at the bottom of the screen it reads

"please enjoy alcohol responsibly"

The juxtaposition of you and that message would be too much I fear.

How about debt refinance companies - we're getting more and more of those ads?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:12 PM
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39. Fade into Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day


I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone I walk alone
I walk alone and I walk a-

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I'll walk alone

Ah..ah..

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone
I walk alone I walk alone
I walk alone and I walk a-

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I'll walk alone

Ah..ah..
I walk alone and I walk a-

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a-

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Till then I'll walk alone
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:14 PM
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40. i never expected you to be such a pal in this dark hour
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:14 PM
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41. It just seemed appropriate at the time
:pals:
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