How important is Social Media, really?

So this week has been going by fast, but I am pretty happy overall with how I've been handling things.

Terps is, by far, the most stressful part of the week. It's a 3 hour obligation every day from today (Wednesday) until Saturday. The stage time is important, and the writing/rehearsal process is great experience, so I'm not upset at all about missing out on some other stuff. It's just a lot along with a presentation and memorizing a shakespeare monologue for my acting class. It's called hell week for a reason!

In the melee world, I have been kinda slacking in collecting clips for me and Justin's combo video. There's a ton of content out there, but clipping and saving it is a bitch. That's not even including the time we need to download the gif's, put it in final cut, edit it with songs, and make sure it's good. Once things slow down i'll be itching for stuff to do, but for now it needs to stay on the back burner.

My social media has slowed down, too, but that's to be expected. I'm not doing anything interesting, so what do I really have to share with the world? This blog is probably the most truthful and productive way to put myself out there, so this should be enough. It's not terribly good, mostly just freewrites and rambling, so It's not really worth advertising when I make a post. Closer to our trip, though, I'll try to make a more quality blog post that's worth sharing and see if it takes off.

It's very strange being in my position right now. My end goal is, really, to make a living off of some combination of comedy and gaming. I want to make a career out of this. I see people on twitch making a living off of streaming, and I genuinely believe that I have what it takes to  make that my career. This trip is a huge part of that plan, so I want to put everything I got into it. The difficulty comes in finding a balance between showing off what I can do and letting people just see for themselves.

On social media, there is nothing that bothers me more than people who think they're hot shit. Over advertising yourself is, I think, a big way that people lose their voice and identity and become obsessed with their image. That isn't what I want to become, obviously. On the other hand, I have been in the dark on social media for a long time when I could have been showing off some cool shit that I've done. I don't want to act humble anymore, I have developed some good skills. I am a good melee player, and I have the capability to reach top 100 in a year. I need to believe that. I am a good comedian, and have the ability to start getting paid for gigs before I turn 25. I need to believe in that, too. I think I have a lot of good to spread to the world, I think that I can entertain people if they give me a chance. There is a fine line that I need to navigate if I'm going to be successful. Sell myself, but don't sell something I'm not.

So where does that leave me, now? I guess all I can do is continue to develop my skills. I just need to keep putting myself out there and try to get some sort of following with what I can do. Traveling and playing melee is going to be the best experience I've had to date, but I can turn that trip into so much more with proper use of a powerful tool: Social media.

Exciting news and making progress

Today I FINALLY finished my first draft of the Rick and Morty spec! I'm so relieved, it's taken about 9 months but it finally has an ending that I am proud of. Man, that took forever. But I think it's pretty good.

This week I have Terps coming up, my fifth and final time hosting the show. It's always a great opportunity to make new material, and this time I took it upon myself to essentially write every scene, or at least the structure of it, myself. Today the hosts and I went over all the scenes and made changes when necessary, and right now it seems that we are in a really good place to start rehearsing. It made me feel better to finalize scenes today rather than need to write them, and I think everyone is happy with how it turned out.

So I guess this weekend was a successful weekend in terms of writing. A tweet of mine hit 15 likes so I went public with this blog, and I'm gonna keep it pinned up for a couple of weeks to see what happens. Next time I edit the Flipschits episode I'm probably gonna pin that version for a while, too.

In the melee world, me and Syko have been picking out clips from our play sessions to put into a combo video. We have about 2 minutes of material right now, so I guess I can start putting together clips into some sort of video soon. I also want to get back into a practicing grind as soon as I graduate. There's a lot of tech I want to polish before the big trip, including some swaggy OOS options that would make a sweet clip.

Speaking of the TRIP! Tomorrow is a big day! That's the day when we go on Facebook and really start looking for places to house ourselves. It's the first time we are truly going public with the trip, but it's nothing that is going to build a ton of hype or anything. If this next week goes well, and we have confirmed housing for the trip, then we can actually hype up the trip and get people interested in it. I've been talking to people about it all week, so I'm crazy excited to actually get it some traction and interest.


**Note. This was supposed to be published on sunday, I guess I never did. Oh well!**

Short post want burrito

So Bill O'Reilly is a sex offender. Not entirely sure of what, but idk how much it matters. It probably does, but i'm still super happy that he got fired. Hopefully the court case fucks him hard and he doesn't get off easy.

I wonder how quickly I can deter people from a public blog post more either. Politics are divisive as fuck right now I should probably chill

How will I get distracted again. Probably from melee. It would be at least on par with my goals

Reddit took my mind again! This is hard as hell to focus on.

I'm having a good time. Everything's chillin. I wish I had my burrito.

Definitely gonna go over some clips. Word

Quick update

A quick update on what's going on with me.


Yesterday was an open mic where I got to try out some more material. It's cool to finally have that semi consistent opportunity to get stage time and gauge where I stand as a comedian. Right now, I'm still towards the bottom. But, I know what it takes to be good, I think, and it mostly comes down to hard work. I will be tickling with stand up for a while, and will fully dive in when the time is right. I've written a ton of material "Most of which is not great!" and feel like there's been a general increase in potential for what I've been writing. I've also been writing about more stuff that's relevant and funny to me, so it's satisfying to perform whether or not I have a great night.

Laugh Club is having elections for Eboard today, and there is exactly 1 person for each job. I am confident that the new eboard coming in are going to take things a bit more seriously than I did and pull this club into a better place. It's going to be very strange taking a back seat to everything, but I think the club has a few more good years in it and it'll turn into something I'm proud of. Hell, I'm already proud of it. I started that shit, yo. That is 100% an accomplishment.

I also started a bunch of social media accounts on Sunday. Redownloaded Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. I am forcing myself to post on all three fairly consistently to keep up a presence online and brand myself. I'm diving full fledged into "Poonslayer7" I think It will go well.

This upcoming Monday is huge for the Oneyboys. We will be making facebook posts to all the different regions and groups announcing our arrivals and asking for housing if we don't already have it. This is like 40% of going public, and with the Oneyboys social media accounts coming soon after, we might really take off and get something good going. Only time will tell, but that time is coming up quick!

I'm also going to be going public with this blog soon, which is a little nerve wracking and exciting. I think it's not that big of a deal because I seriously doubt people will read it unless I'm constantly sharing to the page, which I'm not because it's more of a journal than anything else. It's more just scary, I guess, to have all these personal thoughts available for anyone to read at any point. Maybe I should just keep it private...

Oh well, who cares. Let's see what happens.



Words I learned to spell: Gauge

The Summer of Smash is everything

All I can think about is this road trip coming up. It's on my mind constantly. It's so close, but still there's so much more that can be done. So much to prepare, to attend to, to fix and tinker. Then there's the actual trip itself and the fact that we're putting ourselves out there to be watched and judged and critiqued. We are going to compete every day in an effort to validate ourselves and make ourselves known within the community. This is like a senior project, a culmination of four years in college and time before. This is so freaking important to me right now.

The possibilities are endless. I will be utilizing so much social media to get people to give a shit about us, but the wrong move will make us look like hacks or amateurs. it's a tightrope, honestly.

I'm ready though, I think. I will face a lot of hate at some point no doubt, but it's important that I persevere through it all. I just hope that the initial posts telling everyone what we're trying to do isn't met with bullshit opposition and stuff. I hope people root for us from the beginning.

I just want to have an amazing summer and say that I gave this potential career a good go. It's all I can think about. I just gotta keep being honest and keep doing hard work. That'll be tough, but if it were easy then everyone would do it.

Law and order SVU

Law and order SVU, everyone loves that show. I recently got into it and really enjoyed it. I don't really know why I like it so much, maybe it's the pacing of it, it never seems slow. Maybe the actors, specifically Ice T, do a bang up job. I don't know.

 One day I sit on the couch and look through the channels and see law and order on, hell yea, turn it on, its the beginning of the episode where you see the crime, perfect. So a man sneaks into this home, steals a knife, walks up to a woman and stabs her 3 times. Then he jumbles with the dresser and leaves.

Im standing there like.... That's it. Not gonna fuck with the kids? take a finger to go? Then the intro screen comes up, fucking criminal intent! I turned it off immediately i felt bamboozled!

Then i realized why i like SVU. It's not the direction or the justice. It's the creative ways people turn out to be completely fucked up. I don't want to see murder, I want to see a man steal locks of colored hair for 20 years until his entire bedroom makes a rainbow. I want to see a guy cut off people's kneecaps and glue them together to make a shield which he uses to protect himself from the cop's gunfire. I want to see a man steal children's clothes, put them on so they rip, paint himself green, then masturbate in the mirror pretending he's the hulk.

That's good television right there

The Risque jokes

Definitely distracted. It's important that i look into some other bits for this Tuesday.

I wanna talk about sex. I think that's important for me to talk about sex on stage because it's so important to me. And everyone.


Sex is the bomb, but I understand why it's weird to talk about. probably because it's icky. It smells and is gross, *IF* you do it right. If you have sex and it's still nice and fresh in the bedroom... You either have sex problems or great air circulation. Good sex smells, man. And not great either. It's a strange smell that isn't pleasant but I do weirdly like it, sorta like how I like the smell of gasoline.

Maybe sex isn't that taboo anymore, but butt stuff totally is. I feel like the general vibe out there is that a finger goes up her ass and *Bam* she's a whore, just like that. Its like,  Nice gal *shove* untrustworthy. Good girl *shove* terrible credit, it's a horrible stigma.


 Worse for guys tho, a finger up a guy's ass makes him... automatically gay. I'll say it right now... having a finger up your butt... is not the worst thing on the planet. It's not that bad! Pretty fun, if done correctly. And I know this is important to a lot of people who are hesitant to try it, It doesn't smell like poopie after.

At least with as far as I've gone, I'm sure that more experienced folks occasionally strike oil. Have an oil spill, per se.

I think what I'm getting at is that sex should be a more open topic. You hear about political correctness but there's nothing that gets people more uncomfortable than asking how their butt progress is going. Granted I should stop asking my waitresses that question, but it's still important.

Crowd work, people will want to talk about literally anything else.







Watch Shameless, one of the main characters is sodomized and he bounces right back, and guess what, he isnt gay





It seems that I can talk very delicately about ass play and already people don't know how to feel.


 I know too many people uncomfortable with ass play, talking about it, I wouldn't assume to try it on them

Getting my girlfriend to make out with her friend

I like to think i don't fill the male stereotype in a lot of negative ways but i definitely do. I think being a guy comes with these things we do that we have no control over. 

Kinda like morning wood, but conscious thought.

 For example, when I pee at my girlfriend's place, a house with all women, I leave the toilet seat up 100% of the time, without fail. I don't mean to. I get punished for it every time. But  I still just black out every time I use the toilet and end up pissing off my girlfriend. That is such a typical guy thing.


 Another thing I cant stop doing is bother my girlfriend into  making out with her friends, as often as possible.

 It's not that i'm being super weird about it, I think they're pretty close to doing it already, without my meddling,
and I just jump on the opportunities to help out immediately.


It's a thought that every guy with a girlfriend ever has had. One of your gal pal's's gal pal's comes running up to her. *Running* they hug and they talk this close to each other. Their chests touch, and you just stare straight ahead because you're not sure if you're allowed to look. *Peek*.

 This is when I step in, and try to make things happen. At first I would just flat out tell them, and they could sense how desperate I was. "Please, kiss!" *homeless*. That didn't work at all, you can't be that obvious. You gotta play it like inception, otherwise, even if they do listen to you, it's just a peck and it's over and what's the point then, right? I know it sounds totally slimy but like, come on, I want this.

Anyway, subliminal messages are the way to go. Lately whenever I'm at a bar or something, I'm with my girl and we're dancing, I'll try to just get the point across without her even noticing.

*Music bumping* x9 *Shouting, away from mic* "LGBT"  "Orange is the new black"  "You get used to the taste"

I'm kidding, I don't do that shit.


I still definitely just yell at them to hook up. I'm like "Hey babe, Is that Cynthia, you know what time it is!!! Kiss her!! Kiss Kiss Kiss! Scissoring looks fun! I Love Lesbians!!!

I think I'm making progress.








 you gotta be play it like the game of thrones.


 Be sneaky about it, plant some seeds.