Let me go ahead and begin by introducing myself at the inception of my blogging career. My name is Alexy and I blog. I also do the Hump Day Sports show with Andrew, Pars-Bear and Albert.

So now that the formalities are out of the way, let's get down to business. Right now I'm writing a screenplay. About 3 years ago, before I came to the University of Texas, I worked at a thrift store and I saw humanity at it's rawest. I saw a lot of things. A lot of the things I did see were rated R, a lot of the things that actually happened in layaway rooms were NC-17. Nonetheless, the thrift store became a chapter of my life that I began reminiscing about and I realized that that experience had literary gold written all over it. While I was there I noticed a lot of the comedy. There was a girl that was married to a convict in jail. She was 18 and a junior in high school. She never finished her senior year. Never graduated. Never went back. Said she would get here GED. Never got it. Some might say, "what's funny about that?" Well, I don't think I would justify the comedy if I just retold it, or if I maybe wrote a collection of short stories or a book-- I think I would do my experience the best service if I wrote this as a visual comedy. It is the combination of what happened, and the way I interpreted the situation that comedy comes from. In other words, you had to be there and with this account I hope you can be.

I have another kid helping me with the project. He was my co-worker when I was there. He actually worked there for 5 years. 5 years! At a thrift store! 5 years! 5 mothafuckin years! Are you shittin me!? Dude, is really different from my writing style. Whereas I write for humor, it's just what comes naturally to me, my co-write writes for drama, and I think the combo is necessary, it balances the project out.

This week I need to go talk to my Politics of Hollywood professor, David Prindle (btw, if anyone needs an upper division government credit, take this class. It's fun, you'll learn a lot and there is no professor I've come to admire more than him at this university). I'll ask him when it's done, who do I need to talk to? What do I need to know? I'm really afraid that this thing would be bought and it would be turned to garbage and that I lose the voice.Sometimes Hollywood just feeds us garbage because they won't finance a movie with too abstract a vision so they butcher the voice. But what am I saying, I don't think I have to worry about that till' it's done about a year from now.

Alright, talk to ya'll later. Listen to the Hump Day Sports Show. Look out for "The Thrift Store" Summer 2010. Deuce.