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    January 8, 2009: seaQuest revisited…

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    You may know this already: I have been rediscovered. Some of the world’s united seaQuest fans contacted me in February of last year. Soon thereafter, an entry was made to the official Wikipedia seaQuest entry adding my original script to the log of actual episodes of the NBC/Universal television series which sadly ended its network primetime run in 1996. I did not work on the show as a writer, but I did serve the season three top brass, and took my shot with a spec script for season four. While it was very well received — seaQuest 2032 was not…

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    January 29, 1996: “Stop Counting”

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    I was deeply involved in many writing projects in the early part of 1996, while also focusing on planning for my business. Around this time, I also began to notice that some literary publications were becoming interested in very short pieces of fiction. This is one of my early attempts at such… and nearly 13 years later, this is its first appearance. STOP COUNTING by Roger DarnellPart of the way through that fourth period, I started getting really hungry. It seemed like the bell would never ring and I thought for a minute about how long it had taken for…

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    January 18, 2008: Soaking it all in…

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    Ramble #16 by Roger Darnell I haven’t logged in up at the top yet… I’m hardly qualified to be a poet tonight. It was a good day… a day with the kids. No less than Hickory Dickory Dock: The indoor recreational labyrinth of legend; it did not disappoint. Home, in the snows, well into our sixth Appalachian winter, our family joined the neighbors for dinner; they had other friends with kids join us. A night of merriment was enjoyed by all. Such a simple lifestyle, so warm, so fun. We are basking in it, and so are our two. Settled…

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    “Notes and Quotes” — Part 2

    November 16, 2008 - By 

    Through the days working a great many different types of jobs — in places too numerous to recall due to my “early” success finding freelance work — and also while finding my way as an Air Force Reservist, a college student, and eventually, an independent professional, these are the other tidbits of wisdom I collected to guide my thoughts, values, hopes and dreams. My favorite of this day, in November of 2008, is the first from Mr. Whitman; how I admire his spirit and soul….

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    “Notes and Quotes” — Part 1

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    I collected these pearls of wisdom during the years I was toiling away in Orlando office spaces and paying my way through my university studies. It’s funny to look at them now to see which embedded themselves into my psyche… and which I’d forgotten about completely.

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    August 15, 1981: From Mom…

    October 22, 2008 - By 

    Yes, it’s about time that I acknowledge my mother here in this creative space… and what I have found to share with you from her is also about time. Though this project has been off my daily tasklist for awhile, I think of it often. A lot of great things are happening for me which I’m very thankful for, and increasingly, my busy days are merging into the nighttime spaces where, in the past, I’ve been successful writing creatively. Would you laugh if I told you that lately, I’ve just been too sleepy for any of that? That’s the truth…

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    August 20, 1994: Fourteen years ago…

    August 23, 2008 - By 

    Saturday Morning, Age 28 by Roger Darnell film scheduling, scriptsfriendly smiling caring peoplemaking a TV show at network levelthat’s funny, aspires to and achieves quality music is lengthening its shadowswilling a promising luminance fingers tinkling atop the ivoriesharmonies released at last oh my aunts and unclesthe older friends of my parentsmy grandparents my parents my siblingsdear friends dear strangers every being exists for a purposerecognized, taunted, lost, sold, claimedtaken for granted, lived to the fullestit’s up to you and me my friends

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    Sept. 27, 2000: Personal advice….

    July 16, 2008 - By 

    In the days since that last posting, we have traveled many miles and experienced much of the best that life has to offer. We are savoring the joys, and also the aftertaste of some of the sorrows, and very thankful to be right where we are. And yet, with so many ambitions still beckoning me personally, and with any given day producing only limited results of the types imagined, it is often a serious challenge to carry on, to begin the next endeavor. This quandary has been the source of inspiration for many of the poems I’ve written. Here’s one…

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    February 26, 1993: Bumper Crop, Part 3

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    . February 22, 1991: Bumper Crop, Part 1 . June 29, 1991: Bumper Crop, Part 2 . June 29, 1991: Bumper Crop, Part 3 . December 5, 2008: Bumper Crop is now live In February of 1993, together with my friends Bill Waxler, Peter Eisner and Bob Storer, I spent a very interesting day assembling the picture and sound for “Bumper Crop” at Digital Multi-Media Post, Bob’s treasure-laden post-production facility in Orlando. There, in Mr. Storer’s hands, we saw the performance Harry Phipps had given us nearly two years before edited together to present the story I’d written, based on…