I bought the first book of Gray Man and also took a chance on the book Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life. It was a Pulitzer Prize winner so I figure it couldn’t be all that bad.

Hollywood:  A place where big careers and humility are mutually exclusive.  Where self promotion is the way to what you want.  People are used as steps to your goal and having a conscience is something you have to be rid of as soon as possible.  Wait…am I talking about Hollywood or Washington DC?  Meh, I digress.

Arthur Morgan.  Video game character.  Not even real.  A figment of someone at Rockstar’s imagination,

So, what is the big deal?

It is 1999 around 1am.  You are sitting on your couch watching a movie on your computer that has you totally enthralled.  Trouble is the movie crashes with an error message explaining that the file was corrupted.  (Ahhh, Napster anyone?)  After several attempts to play the file again, you give up dejectedly and try to figure out what to do.

What to do.  Want to be creative – blocked.  What direction to take…is it to be things you are passionate about, or things you are good at already?  Both?  I have this platform and it is not being used for its specified purpose, so then why do I have it?