Yay for you, Obbajee. And for Ravi too, with his Devi. sigh...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, Share. I am not a dog. I know just one whom my interest is attached to.
> haha.
> Testing.
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote:
> >
> > Obbajee, just one?!
> >
> > This is not a test (-:
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: obbajeeba <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 7:12 AM
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: True Attention
> >
> >
> >
> > Â
> > This is a test.
> > Share, I know at least one 60 plus dude that is still smoking hot.
> > :)
> > Test.
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Saul! What are you doing in Farmtown, USA?
> > >
> > > What does it look like I'm doing, Morty? I'm trying to read the local
> > > newspaper. Betty Lou just got engaged to her high school sweetheart Big
> > > Joe.
> > >
> > >
> > > Huh? Look Saul let me give you my elevator pitch on another idea.
> > >
> > > In case you haven't noticed Morty, there are no elevators in this town.
> > > Just flat flat and more flat. Sigh, ok, let's hear it.
> > >
> > >
> > > I call it The Ex Patted.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ah, Morty, a short title that speaks volumes. I like it already. Say more.
> > >
> > > It's about a 60 something guy Neal A. ListÃÂ living outside the US. And
> > > what can I say, Saul, he's got issues. He's terrified of needing
> > > attention. He's terrified of being boring. He's terrified of not leaving
> > > his mark on the world. He's an elitist and perfectionist and life is
> > > good. But only as long as it lives up to those standards of his that he's
> > > so attached to and identified with. I guess we could say he's terrified
> > > of being an ordinary human.
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know, Morty, will audiences be able to identify with this guy?
> > >
> > > Saul, what can I say? Aren't you already? ha ha!
> > >
> > > Cute, Morty! Tell you what. Let's make him hate astrology and all that
> > > New Age stuff and I think we got a winner.
> > >
> > > Saul, you're a genius. Hey, maybe this small town living is good for you.
> > >
> > > Morty, don't put a kabash on our new partnership!
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:19 PM
> > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] True Attention
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ÃÂ
> > > This post never "came back" from the Yahoo! black hole yesterday, so I'll
> > > try again because I had so much fun writing it...
> > >
> > >
> > > Overheard in a cafe on Ile Saint-Louis this morning:
> > >
> > > "Saul? Is that you? How amazing to run into you here in Paris. What are
> > > you doing here?"
> > >
> > > "Knock it off, Morty. I saw you earlier stalking me outside my hotel, and
> > > following me here. You probably stalked me here all the way from L.A.
> > > What do you want?"
> > >
> > > "That was *your* hotel? I wasn't stalking you...I was...uh...just looking
> > > through the garbage cans to see whether Parisians recycle. Yeah, that's
> > > the ticket."
> > >
> > > "Cut to the chase, Morty. What the fuck do you want?"
> > >
> > > "I want to pitch you a story idea for a new series, Saul. I know that
> > > you're interested in new ideas, original ideas, so I'm bringing it to you
> > > first, even though a bunch of other producers are already bugging me about
> > > it."
> > >
> > > "Yeah, right. But OK, I'm in a good mood, and the *real* writer I'm
> > > waiting for isn't due for a few minutes, so you've got that long to give
> > > me your 'elevator pitch.'"
> > >
> > > "Thanks, Saul. I call it 'True Attention.' It's a story about a bunch of
> > > vampires who live in Faux Temps, Iowa and survive by sucking attention
> > > from other people."
> > >
> > > "Iowa? It sounds more like L.A."
> > >
> > > "Yeah, we could probably set it in L.A. if you wanted. Anyway, the main
> > > character is named Nookie Snackhouse, and she's *not* a vamp. But she is
> > > half fey...sort of a closet fey...and she has this ability to read
> > > people's minds, and know what their real thoughts and intentions are even
> > > better than the people whose minds she's reading do."
> > >
> > > "She sounds like a real pain in the ass. But go on...where do the vamps
> > > fit into all of this?"
> > >
> > > "Well, first, they're not real vamps, like in that other series that this
> > > one is nothing like. They don't feed on blood
> > > or anything. Instead, just as you noted, they feed off of attention.
> > > Being unable to generate any kind of energy themselves, they suck it from
> > > other people by getting them to focus on them."
> > >
> > > "So how do they do this? Do they, for example, stalk these victims whose
> > > attention they want to steal halfway around the world and corner them in
> > > a sidewalk cafe?"
> > >
> > > "No, no...nothing like that. Heh heh...good one, Saul. What they do,
> > > since none of these attention vamps have actually ever DONE anything in
> > > their lives that would attract the attention they feed off of, they get
> > > people to focus on them by insulting them, trying to portray them as
> > > stupid, and calling them names."
> > >
> > > "And that works?"
> > >
> > > "More than you might think. Many of the vamps in Faux Temps have been
> > > running this number for *years*, and have managed to get a *lot* of
> > > people to focus on them and give them their attention so that they can
> > > feed off of it. And all without ever
> > > DOING anything to deserve that attention in the first place."
> > >
> > > "I don't get it...they accomplish all this just by insulting people?"
> > >
> > > "Not *just* insulting people. Sometimes they make up stories about
> > > themselves and try to convince others that those stories are real. For
> > > example, they brag about their 'endarkenment,' or imply that they're
> > > successes in life even though they've never been anything but wage
> > > slaves. That's where Nookie comes in."
> > >
> > > "The suspense is killing me. Do tell..."
> > >
> > > "Well, as I said, Nookie is *not* one of these vamps per se, and in fact
> > > is even less interesting than they are and has DONE even less in her life
> > > than they have, but she can read their thoughts and so she knows when
> > > they're bullshitting to attract attention and when they're not."
> > >
> > > "Aha. So she busts them when she catches them lying?"
> > >
> > > "No, not at all. That's the twist. She ignores their bullshit, and
> > > instead praises them so that they'll
> > > focus on HER. When they do that, she sucks *their* attention. So in
> > > effect, she's got all these attention vampires *working for her*,
> > > stealing attention and energy from other people, and then passing it
> > > along to her by focusing on her. Brilliant, right?"
> > >
> > > "Sounds boring to me. Who on earth would tune in each week to watch a
> > > bunch of people who have never DONE anything in their lives try to suck
> > > attention, as if they were the center of the universe?"
> > >
> > > "Hey, Saul...don't knock it...it worked for 'Seinfeld.'"
> > >
> > > "Good point."
> > >
> > > "So? Ya interested?"
> > >
> > > "Not really. Got anything else?"
> > >
> > > "Well, I am working on another completely original treatment called
> > > 'Freaking Mad.' It's about a mild-mannered meditation teacher who starts
> > > selling black-market enlightenment..."
> > >
> > > "Nice talking to you, Morty. But I see a real writer approaching, so buzz
> > > off. Give my secretary a call when you get back to L.A. We won't do
> > > lunch."
> > >
> >
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