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So, uh... where to begin?  It still seems wierd to me that diary-type things like this have gone from being under lock and key to being broadcast to the world, but... whatever.  My thoughts right now...?  Well my main though is that I wish I had a job.  I kind-of got screwed over by the place I was working, Pyburn Films, when I came back from Christmas break.  It was pretty good money while it lasted, but I guess I was getting tired of working in an office.  Although I did enjoy taking advantage of their computers to help with our show (Pothedz Couch).  Oh, well.  Hopefully, I'll be back working on set soon.  Just have to wait on that elusive PA phonecall.  I like the wierd hours of being a freelance PA on film & TV stuff, but sometimes waiting on that phonecall for your next job can be murder.  I made some calls to some friends to try and drum up some more work, but so far... nada. At least I have stuff for the show to keep me occupied.  If only I could start making money off of it...  Soon, I think.  I want to put a few more episodes (at least one) on public access before I go commercial, because once we go commercial, we aren't allowed on public access anymore.  We'll probably sell T-shirts and shit like that, but we can't sell things like DVD's because of some of the songs and stuff we used in the show that we haven't gone through the process of clearing the rights (because we have no money).  I hope we'll be able to make rent (rent sucks in NYC, we have basically a closet in Hell's Kitchen that cost $1300 a month!).
    Changing gears from my personal life to politics and religion (HUGE jump), how about all the muslim rioting over those Danish cartoons. (To sum up, a Danish newpaper printed some political cartoons that had the muslim prophet Mohammed portrayed in them.  Islamic law forbids portrayal of the prophet in any way, an idea intended to keep from turning praise of the prophet into idol worship, much like they believe Christians often do with Jesus, by calling him Lord and God and all)  Wow.  Talk about a bunch of tight-asses.  Learn to take a joke.  The funny thing is, the Danish paper put out those cartoons as an exercise in not censoring themselves when it comes to muslim issues.  Well, I think that plan may have backfired.  I think we forget that freedom of speech is still a radically new concept in the world and not everybody agrees with it.  The main thing I don't get is why do these muslim countries think we're bound by their religious law?  And don't they understand that by taking the defacement of the image of their prophet so seriously, that it borders on the idol worship that Mohammed was trying to avoid.  Oh, irony abounds in the world and the joke is on all of us.