The Rantings of Pab Sungenis
I’m in the CP production of Much Ado About Nothing along with
I think the mindset has a lot to do with it. Honestly, I haven’t felt all that welcome at CP lately, mostly due to one or two members who have a lot of influence now. It’s poisoned the atmosphere considerably and I’m thinking it may be impacting my performance.
I’ll have to muddle through it, I guess.
Finally, I have enough time to sit down and write this out. This is an edited version of our pitch summary for our sitcom proposal. Wish us luck with the Bravo judges.
And if you’re one of the readers for Bravo, please don’t follow the LJ-Cut, because I don’t want you to be prejudiced.
When the local superhero, the Scarlet Knight (aka Ed Roberts), finds his powers suddenly fluctuating, he uses it as an excuse to settle down to domestic life in the guise of his secret identity and marry his sweetheart, intrepid reporter Karla Klein. Now, instead of chasing after evil doers, bank robbers, and the occasional megalomaniac bent on taking over the world, Ed finds himself dealing with more mundane disasters, such as having to cook dinner when the in-laws suddenly drop in, convincing his former boy sidekick that he can’t just camp out on the couple’s couch for a few weeks, trying to politely decline an offer to join the Legion of Retired Heroes, or just get in a few rounds of golf with his next door neighbor and best friend, Murray.
Meanwhile, Karla is insistent that Ed not use his powers more than necessary, since they have been known to go out at inconvenient moments. To try and solve this dilemma, Ed has regular appointments with Doctor Warhammer, his one time nemesis and now a gentle family practitioner with a strange sense of humor. Along the way, Ed finds out that domestic life may have more challenges and dangers than the hero business, but the rewards are much greater.
Well, there you have it. We’re trying to go for more of the classic, 1960′s-1970′s sitcom feel from back before every sitcom felt they had to be either pseudo-intellectual (like Will and Grace) or anti-intellectual (like anything on UPN).
As of 9:40 AM EST today, the fourth (and, for now, final) draft of the “Local Hero” pilot is on its way to Bravo, 14 hours ahead of deadline.
Once the deadline has firmly passed, I promise to provide more information for those of you who have been patiently wondering about this work of alleged “art” wrought by myself and Kris Leeds. Patience, grasshoppers.
If you see anyone mentioning that “poor, crying girl” whose Bush/Cheney sign was allegedly destroyed by a Kerry supporter at a rally, please go here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=829092&mesg_id=829092
The man who destroyed that girl’s sign was her BROTHER. Her father has pulled similar stunts in at least two prior elections, to get bad press for Democratic supporters.
Associated Press photo of the “incident:”
Family photo:
Side-by-side comparison:
At any rate, that family should consider itself lucky they’re Republican. If anyone goes near a Bush or Cheney campaign appearance with ANY Kerry T-Shirts or signs, they’re arrested.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/politics/3731738/detail.html
Follow-up to Monday’s entry.
DETROIT — Democrat John Kerry has a new campaign worker helping him
drum up support in Alabama after hiring a woman who was fired for
displaying the presidential candidate’s bumper sticker on her car.
Kerry called Lynne Gobbell on Tuesday after reading a newspaper story
describing how she had been fired last Thursday from her job packing
cellulose insulation at a Moulton, Ala., plant.
Gobbell said her former employer had told her she could either work for him or Kerry. She said Kerry told her, “Let him know that as of today, you’re working for John Kerry.”
Why didn’t anyone tell me there’s actually an LJ interest for “The Pab Sungenis Project?”
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=pab+sungenis+project
And why haven’t more of you added it? 
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/040912/sticker.shtml for the full story. Excerpt below.
By Clyde L. Stancil
DAILY Staff Writer
cstancil@decaturdaily.com · 340-2443
MOULTON — Lynne Gobbell never imagined the cost of a John Kerry-John Edwards bumper sticker could run so high.
Gobbell … didn’t pay a cent for the sticker that she proudly displays on the rear windshield of her Chevrolet Lumina, but said it cost her job at a local factory after it angered her boss, Phil Gaddis.
Gaddis, a Decatur bankruptcy attorney, owns Enviromate, a cellulose insulation company in Moulton.
Gobbell said she was averaging 50 to 60 hours a week on the plant’s bagging machine.
“We were going back to work from break, and my manager told me that Phil said to remove the sticker off my car or I was fired,” she said. “I told him that Phil couldn’t tell me who to vote for. He said, ‘Go tell him.’ ”
“Phil and another man who works there were there,” she said. “I asked him if he said to remove the sticker and he said, ‘Yes, I did.’ I told him he couldn’t tell me who to vote for. When I told him that, he told me, ‘I own this place.’ I told him he still couldn’t tell me who to vote for.”
Gobbell said Gaddis told her to “get out of here.”
The manager told her to go back to work, but he came back a few minutes later and said, ” ‘I reckon you’re fired. You could either work for him or John Kerry,’ ” Gobbell said.
To whom it may concern (i.e.: that asshole on the telephone):
No, we are not the Drive-In Theater.
Yes, we know where it’s located, and no, we’re not going to tell you.
Yes, we know their phone number, and no, we’re not going to tell you.
Yes, chances are we know what’s playing there, and no, we’re not
going to tell you.
And, yes, we’re going to hang up on you each time you ask one of
these questions.
Before you call me rude for this attitude, I want you to consider
just how rude YOU are being. Yes, YOU are being rude.
Let me put it to you this way:
Do you call up your neighborhood McDonald’s, and ask them where the
nearest Burger King is? I didn’t think so.
Do you walk into the nearby Buick dealership, and ask where you can
find a place that sells Hondas? I didn’t think so.
Do you walk into Boscov’s, and ask what Wal-Mart has on sale this
week? I didn’t think so.
See? You would be considered extremely rude if you were to try and
do any of the above things. You’d probably even expect to be thrown out of
the businesses you’ve beset. Yet, you have no compunction about calling
me up, along with upwards of 30 of your fellow travelers each day, and
asking me for information about and to help you get to my competitor. I am not
going to do it, nor am I going to allow my staff to do it. It’s rude of
you to ask our help to spend your money elsewhere. Especially when we’re a
struggling mom-and-pop operation, not a major corporation with
millions of dollars to shell out on our operation like the people who own the
Drive-In. Please be glad all I do is hang up after explaining that
we are not affiliated with them.
So before you criticize me, take a long hard look in the mirror.
Then walk into Taco Bell and ask where the nearest Chi-Chi’s is. Because
that’s just what you did to me. And if you’re going to get pissy about it,
I don’t want your money or your custom. I deal with enough pain in the
butt customers each day, and one less to cope with might be a welcome
respite.
Re-posted for all to see, my favorite of all the photo-cartoons I’ve done.
“…is the hardest part.”
I feel like a schoolkid waiting for his final term paper to come back graded. I never thought I could be this anxious to get back critiques on anything I had written (or collaborated on) before.
Next step is a script summary, and character summaries for the characters included in the pilot. Then filling out the forms and mailing it all. Oh, and finding time to do a re-write. I’m already marking up a printed copy of the script with the changes Kris and I feel need to be made after reading it through.
Of course, I only have to find time for a re-write somewhere between covering shifts at the movie theater, play rehearsals, and our lawsuit against Wachovia. Kris has to find time for re-writes during his wedding!
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