Saturday, October 25, 2008

I Voted.

Hello all,

I early voted the other day at a local library. It took 5 minutes. Guess who I voted for?

I'm glad to finally get the chance to vote for the winning presidential candidate. Yes, I think Obama is gonna win by a landslide. Why? Three reasons:
  1. High(er) minority voter turn-out
  2. The fact that 5,000 new voters were registered on the Univ. of Texas campus the last day of voter registration alone. So, multiply that number by all the colleges and universities around the country and you'll get an idea of the number of unaccounted for (i.e. unpolled) mostly Obama voters.
  3. Barack Obama is having his highly fortuitous "Jupiter Return" in January around inauguration time. This only happens once every 12 years, folks. Of course, my astrological predictions about the last presidential election were disappointingly inaccurate. But that's because I misjudged GW's karma (it must be past-life karma, because lord knows he didn't amass it in this lifetime!) :-P
Coming up tomorrow: the basic structure of my screenplay (spoiler alert!)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

When marketing a screenplay you want to avoid associating your material to political opinion, sexual lifestyle and other such things that can alienate an audience. If you want to discuss politics and other such things I would suggest you do so in a separate forum.

Anonymous said...

Es una pena que pretendan votar a Obama. Alguien que dice lo que todos necesitamos y que nos lo va a dar es peligroso, porque cada uno necesitamos cosas diferentes. ¿Intervenir el mercado? ¿Miren que bien va Argentina, Venezuela, etc?

Saludos.

Ellen Simonetti said...

Dear Anonymous #1,

This is a problem I have... I have trouble separating work from who I am. That's probably why I don't fit in to Corporate America. I've thought this through before and I decided not to keep parallel/secret blogs. I don't think I need to hide who I am... and ultimately this movie is a representation of me and the millions like me who are looking for change in their lives.

Anonymous said...

Change is many things to many people. You will find that the "change you are looking for may not be the change others are seeking. Word to the wise, keep some things to your self. You will have to decide for yourself what that is.

Anonymous said...

Dear Anonymous ... You can lead a horse to water.. but you cannot make it drink... Or- do not cast your pearls before swine....and of course all comments that are not in full agreement with the retard will not be posted.

Anonymous said...

Have you thought about doing a flashback in act one to the interview process and how grueling it can be to actually get the job as a flight attendant? I don't think people realize how competative of a process this can be. It might add some depth to the character or some comic relief if the audience truly knew. Something along the lines of the character thinking "I worked so hard for this....???" while she is standing at the gate getting bumped off the flight. I know as an FA myself I have often thought the same way.