Friday, December 23, 2016

Pez Outlaw, The Happiness Project #pezoutlaw

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It's My Story.


My vision of happiness. 
Turn off the computer for at least 6 months.
Get 30 semi truck loads of crushed concrete spend 3 months moving it into places on the farm with the tractor.

Then get some building material to build 3 more horse sheds n spend another 3 months doing that. 



That's my idea of retirement/vacation.

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Say Hollywood were to make a Pez Outlaw Movie?
Would that make me Happy or solve my problems?

First, I want this and it would be an honor if a movie was made about Pez Outlaw.
After all I've been working over a decade in hopes of a Pez Outlaw movie.

But would a Pez Outlaw movie solve all my problems?
You might be shocked to learn that my takehome after taxes, agents ect would be approx $35,000.00.
My debt to the bank from my losses at the hands of Pez Corp are approx $185,000.00.
Well that didn't work.

I would though derive a great deal of satisfaction from the recognition of the Pez Outlaw story that a movie would validate.
If the Pez Outlaw Movie was made a book deal would be almost automatic.
My guess is that my take home from a book deal would also be approx $35,000.00.
Don't ask me why I know this, OK I saw it on TV, so it must be true.

$185,000.00 - $35,000 - $35,000 = $115,000
Still $115,000.00 in the hole.
I mean great strides in the right direction but still not a 100% win.

That's why I hope if that all happens that someone might want to publish Pez Outlaw Diary in paperback as a companion piece to the Big Book.
I also hope that while the iron is hot I might get a compilation of the best posts from Notes From The Asylum by Pez Outlaw published. 

I further hope that after all those things were in motion or reality that Pez Corp might think reparations for there actions in 1998 might be a good PR move.

The big question though is this.
After over a decades work toward this very goal, Would I be Happy?
I believe I would in this regard.
I've been very clear since the beginning of this journey what the goals were.
I believe that I'd be willing at that point to find closure.

Unnamed Others have thought they knew what people of my station in life would consider "everything you dreamed of".
You really can't blame them in this age of reality star fame, for thinking a few moments of fame was the dream.
No, I've already had a version of that, so not so much.
As I said, I've known what my true goals are from the beginning n fame of any type is not even on the list.

Raising awareness of the Pez Outlaw story is and what might be accomplished by the name ID of Pez Outlaw are.

So will, would all of this make me happy?

I'm not sure I'd fell any different than I do now.
You see mentally, I'm already in a better place, that much has already been accomplished by the work I've done on Pez Outlaw Diary and Notes From The Asylum.

What would be different is a sense of accomplishment and closure.
Add to that a feeling of vindication and I don't mean over Pez Corporation.
No vindication in my belief that I could do it.
That when I was down to zero $$$$.
I realized I could work with that, that I still had my mind as a resource I could tap.

You see in the beginning nobody believed I could do this, nobody.
Nobody except me, I believed I could.
I had faith in myself n the drive to continue for 15 years.
That takes a lot of dedication to something when no one else thinks you are sane for even trying.

So yes vindication is the correct word, just not in the sense or concerning who, that you might think.
In myself and my belief in myself.

Kathy supported me, but I'm not sure even she believed I could do it.
Though our life's experiences have shown her that with her support interesting things happen.

I think it will be interesting to watch the reaction to everything as it plays out.
There will be those who think, lucky him.
Without any understanding of the 15 years of work it took to get here.

Be forewarned. 
Do not ask me for money, because I don't n won't have any.
The bank is gonna get every penny.
Your sob story won't match my reality of the last 15 years n I will have no time for it.
That includes sob stories about diseases, we've got our own. 
People that contact me expecting??? saying that they have this disease or that really piss me off.
We are dealing with one of our own n we have never used it to try n gain sympathy.
Never ask me about it, it's off limits for any conversation anywhere.

Don't try to hitch a ride.
Put in your own time on your own deal n earn your own reward.

Other than facebook friends which I do like.
Don't try to be my friend (except on facebook).
I have all the friends I want (except on facebook).

You wanna know the truth.
June 21, 2016 I will be 65 years old.
I just want to retire n no longer need to worry about owing the bank $185,000.00 for PEZ.

So Happiness.
I want to play in dirt with my tractor like when I was a child n have people think n say, Man he works hard.

One additional thought.
On behalf of all of us nobodies out here.
Big corporations, Big Banks n Wall Street all got bailouts while we the nobodies lost our homes.
Isn't it about time one of us beat a Big Corporation by just telling what happened.
Out of all this you'd think Karma would allow at least one nobody a win. 

After Pez Outlaw, I intend to retire.
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Pez Outlaw, Doin the TP shuffle #pezoutlaw

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


It just dawned on me 10 months into the Covid Pandemic why the shortage of TP for that same amount of time. People are not going to the Potty at school, work or at restaurants anymore. Everybody is going Potty at home now. Well, Solved that one, only took 10 months.
Now we move on to why the shortage of Bean Soup?



My Bull Mastiff Proby has a thing for TP.
Po likes to unroll the TP into the living room from it's hanger in the bathroom then chew on the end.
Po has no idea what the word NO means.
Love Po to much to explain it to her.
In short my dog TP's our house.

I imagine that TP welcomes the attention Proby gives it.
Think about it, the only time TP gets to leave the bathroom is when Proby has a playdate with it.
So I'm guessing TP welcomes Probies idea of fun, anything to get out of the bathroom.


I woke to find my backup tp had vanished.
Kathy said knife wielding marauders had stolen it.
Oh No, The humanity.


Frowny Tp has now met his fate.
He saw his duty n he did it.


I'm just feeling like TP. 
Pickin at scabs in my brain Bored. 

For Christ Sakes a post about Toilet Paper Bored.
With a picture of Toilet Paper Bored.
Even if it is a good Post about Toilet Paper. 

Close but not quite pulling your hair out bored.
Truth is it would be thin grabbin.
Walkin around alone sayin knyuck, knyuck, knyuck bored. 

Who's in charge of this whorehouse bored. 
Just Sayin.
n you know, share the wealth bored. 
Slippage is a Bitch.




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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Pez Outlaw, "There but for the grace of God go I" #pezoutlaw

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


At the core of America and that thing that defines us has always been the American Spirit. 
A can do, get her done way of thinking.

But we are now being turned into scared people.
I understand that people are scared. 
I sympathize, but you are avoiding a reality of life.
1. You are going to die, make peace with the fact.
2. To me every moment of life abounds with the threat of death; drowning, electrocution, car accident, tornado, lightning strike, cancer, MS, Parkinson, Alzheimer, falling, stroke, heart attack, etc.

Point being that the list of things trying to kill you is pretty endless. 
So die ing is not really the issue, it's inevitable.
To fear being killed by a terrorist is kinda potato patatoe.

The thing people need to concentrate on is not the inevitability of death, it's living your life well.
treat others with as much love as you can.

To get all wound up about terrorists is to play the other guys game.
Like I've said Zombies need Killin, but that should not take over your life.

You are going to die, the more important thing is to have lived a life worth living.
Keep faith with the miracle of life, by not wasting it.

"God isn't Fixing this"Question, Have you actually tried? 

I find it kinda ironic that talk of faith and God I bet you makes people as uneasy as talk of terrorists. Maybe that is the real problem.


But hey what do I know, I'm just an inmate here in the Asylum.
Live Life, The rest will take care of itself, It always has. 
Take care of the things you can actually do something about.
The Knuckleheads in Washington have to get it right sooner or later.
The law of averages says they've got to make a few good decisions sooner or later. 



From An Asylum Inmate

What do I know, I'm just an inmate here in the Asylum passing notes to the outside world. 

I ended a previous post with this tag line, then I thought. Seriously worth thinking about.

I spout off about a lot of stuff but why in Gods name should anyone listen?
Or is that even the point? 
Isn't the point really to look inward in an effort to understand.
Most people though do not share naval gazing with the entire world.

I've chosen to share in public because I do not fear judgement.

I would have to care what people think of me to fear that.
I'm sure there is a mental illness that defines this behavior, but I'd need to pay attention in class to know which one.
I do not write in a quest for fame or admiration, I write because I enjoy doing it. 
I enjoy the process of sorting through it all. 
If I cared what people might think of me, it probably would inhibit the free flow ow thought.
Thank God I Don't.

I enjoy this process, it helps give me peace of mind.

Pez Outlaw Diary was a Primal scream.
The day I entered the Asylum was the best day of my life.
I could not n never would have made it here without Pez Outlaw Diary.


This is as good a time as any to ask you to think about something.
There have been 12 deaths due to selfie's vs 8 deaths from shark attacks this year so far.
Kinda makes you wonder. Whose really the crazy one?

 

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Pez Outlaw, From My Heart. #pezoutlaw

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


The biggest mistake a TV show or a movie can make is if the audience does not care about or like the main character.

When Irving Thalberge resurrected the movie careers of The Marx Brothers.
He very pointedly had Harpo beat up by the bad guy in the first scene so that you would have sympathy for Harpo straight out of the gate.

I can't tell you the number of TV shows I've just stopped watching, sometimes mid episode when it dawns on me. I just don't care about these people and in some cases, I do not even like the characters.

That's why I've always tried to be open and honest about the character Pez Outlaw.
In the last year I've also tried to remove some of the anger I've felt in the past over what Pez Corporation did.
What I instead am now trying to emphasize is the struggle. 
How from very modest average beginnings, Pez Outlaw was trying to achieve the American dream for his family and still is.
Choosing now to view the initial defeat of Pez Outlaw in 1998 as a new beginning and origin point for the character.
I've tried to emphasize the unbeatable spirit of Pez Outlaw. How after a defeat that would lay most men down for the count. Pez Outlaw got up Dusted himself off n fought with everything that remained, which was not much.
Pez Outlaw fought back for over a decade in obscurity, with no outside support. The only person that thought what Pez Outlaw was doing wasn't crazy and a waste of time was him.
Even still Pez outlaw continued.

I believe all of this with all my heart.

every day i face the blank page. some days are easier than others.

Proby n Billy Dog are getting really anxious. gotta go. 

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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Pez Outlaw, Know Your Job #pezoutlaw

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


Know Your Job, Do Your Job. Nothing Is More Important.

Billy Dog story/post.

Billy Dog has turned the corner. She still knows what fun is but she is starting to understand her role here on the farm.

You do not have to teach a good dog how to be a good watch dog. A good dog just becomes aware of the responsibility.

Billy Dog has started taking an interest in the motion of her environment, that it must turn in a proper n expected manner.

Billy Dog is now stepping back a bit from being in the center of anything that's going on. Starting to prefer to observe.
Cars that go by in front of the house are now watched.
People are now watched. A good dog must be a bit reserved by choice.
She is beginning to have opinions, she does not approve of gunfire. It happens around here.

The other night the dogs were upset, so somebody had to go out n check. Since Rudy passed I've had to do this alone cause pink would run once nobody was found n proby is an in close fighter.
This time though ole Bill said yes let's do this. She moved slowly n methodically all around cars etc. I'm Very proud, Very proud. Rudy n Cheeka would aprove n they were the mark.

It's been a long road but my little Billy Dog is home now n balance has been restored to our universe.
As always now it's time to start thinking about training the next one.

Thinking, thinking, I'm not ready yet.



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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Gettin Chased By The Poop Stick! #pezoutlaw

 

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


We all poop, so I should be able to talk about this. 

Don't Get The Wrong End Of The Stick!

You do know where the term "the Wrong End Of The Stick" comes from. 

In the old days when a lot of people had n used outhouses for going potty.

The deposits would form a pointy hill kinda tall.

You would use a stick to knock it down to even/level.

Chase your brother with that stick n Hey Buddy, Don't Get The wrong End Of The Stick.

Was there ever an incident where one of your brothers was chased by the other with one form of poo or another on the end of a stick? 

"Yeah sure one of my brothers?" Why not.

Didn't everybody?

Were there outhouses in my neighborhood when I was a child?
Yes.
Ever use them?
Of course, then & as recently as yesterday.
After all, this round here is Country. 

The Other End Of The Stick

I can't seem to get on the right end of the stick on this one.
Seems like I'm expected to hustle cooperate n expedite everything.
I agree because even if I objected it would come to no good outcome.
So I agree then as asked I expidite.
After a problem occurs I hustle to provide info, then I expedite as requested.

Then I wait, wait n wait some more.
My end of the stick seems to be of zero importance.
It is not expedited. I can wait. I guess I'm just not priority.

A statement of fact, not a pity party.
You say what's on your mind.
I'm sure they must have been real busy n they will get to it as fast as they can.
I had a dog named Rudy. Rudy remembered everything n it affected her future relationship with you.
No Big but it does, doesn't it.

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Sunday, December 4, 2016

We're Walking, We're Walking n We're Not Touching That. #pezoutlaw

Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.

It's My Story.


You know how people are always asking you, How much crazy you got in that bag?
Considerable Son, Considerable. 
And the thing is I can get it out to play whenever I want.

If 99 people say yes and you are the only one that says no, what is the conclusion?
For me, the 99 are wrong. 
To me this is not defiance, it's a belief to your core in yourself and what you believe.

I believe it possible that one person can see something true in a fog. 
It takes more conviction to stand by a lone belief than to agree in a crowd.
Independent Unique thought is very precious. 

There is a lot of pressure from all directions to conform nowadays. 
Very few are able to withstand that pressure.
Your capitulation is sought to validate group think.

You perceive that a crowd in unanimous agreement is strength.
Truth is there inability to tolerate independent thought shows how weak there position is.
There is safety in group think agreement, that a voice from the wilderness challenges.

True strength is the ability to stand alone and defend or exhibit independent thought.

People say to me.
They'd never make a movie out of my life.
It's to boring.

Well you haven't got your crayons out yet, have you?
It's not your life that's boring, it's how you view that life.

Every since I've taken over writing my life, I'm a happier person.
Of course that means adding a lot of characters that folks enjoy hearing about.
Or is it that they are polite about? Either way I'm happier. 

There is crazy and there is CRAZY.
Truth is there is a very big difference.
My kind of crazy is fun and full of good stories.
I don't even want to give voice to the other kind.

That was the disclaimer.
It's actually sad that I even had to give it.
But you know current events etc, best to say it.

Now I'm depressed. 
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors.
ALPo, Ed.


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