The Breakfast Blues
Clearly, the people at McDonald's who made the decision to stop serving breakfast at 11:00am on weekends never stay out late on a Friday night anymore. If they did, or if their kids do, they would know that it really sucks to wake up craving breakfast at McDonald's only to get there just in time for some grumpy woman to tell you breakfast ended five minutes ago.
I don't want a hamburger at 11:05am on a Saturday morning, I want a sausage and egg McMuffin, I want a large orange juice, I want two hash browns and a large coffee. There's nothing else I want to eat right now and I can't have it! If it was 11:4 am, I could see how McDonald's may have needed the previous fifteen minutes to be gearing up for lunch, switching over the grills or whatever it is that they have to do back there but at 11:05 am I should be eating breakfast!
So here I am, drinking a coffee, eating a bagel loaded with cream cheese thinking man, I wish I was at McDonald's right now reading a paper and figuring out what I'm going to do today. I've decided I need to take one day a week off each week from now on so that I don't completely burn myself out again. For a long time, all I did was think about and work on my show, and eventually it all caught up to me. Keeping the show on the air somehow became more important than what I was actually putting on the air. It consumed me for sure, it had to though, and it worked. I've kept JR DIGS on the air for over three years now, the show is broadcast nationally and despite the fact that I still haven't landed this elusive network deal, I recently put together an interesting new barter agreement with Global. Most of the money that previously was being paid to Global for airtime can now be put into the production of the actual show. So for the first time ever, I can hire a small crew to work with me on the show each week. If all goes well, I'll find more time now to write and think about stuff that's funny, instead of just how I'm going to keep it on the air for another week!
That being said, today is my day off, I should go do something. By the way, one of the things we did last night was check out a band called the Marble Index. They're a local band that's getting some radio play these days. I'm thinking about featuring some music acts in the new season and if I do, you will probably see these guys on the show in the next month or so.
An extra half hour of serving breakfast, is that so much to ask for!
I don't want a hamburger at 11:05am on a Saturday morning, I want a sausage and egg McMuffin, I want a large orange juice, I want two hash browns and a large coffee. There's nothing else I want to eat right now and I can't have it! If it was 11:4 am, I could see how McDonald's may have needed the previous fifteen minutes to be gearing up for lunch, switching over the grills or whatever it is that they have to do back there but at 11:05 am I should be eating breakfast!
So here I am, drinking a coffee, eating a bagel loaded with cream cheese thinking man, I wish I was at McDonald's right now reading a paper and figuring out what I'm going to do today. I've decided I need to take one day a week off each week from now on so that I don't completely burn myself out again. For a long time, all I did was think about and work on my show, and eventually it all caught up to me. Keeping the show on the air somehow became more important than what I was actually putting on the air. It consumed me for sure, it had to though, and it worked. I've kept JR DIGS on the air for over three years now, the show is broadcast nationally and despite the fact that I still haven't landed this elusive network deal, I recently put together an interesting new barter agreement with Global. Most of the money that previously was being paid to Global for airtime can now be put into the production of the actual show. So for the first time ever, I can hire a small crew to work with me on the show each week. If all goes well, I'll find more time now to write and think about stuff that's funny, instead of just how I'm going to keep it on the air for another week!
That being said, today is my day off, I should go do something. By the way, one of the things we did last night was check out a band called the Marble Index. They're a local band that's getting some radio play these days. I'm thinking about featuring some music acts in the new season and if I do, you will probably see these guys on the show in the next month or so.
An extra half hour of serving breakfast, is that so much to ask for!
posted by JR DIGS
at 11:35 AM
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