Old Friends, New Ideas
One of the things that reaching the ripe old age of 25 has inspired me to do is track down old friends I’ve lost touch with before we all grow gray and senile. Tonight I spoke with a friend of mine from college, Kathryn. One of the many, many Kathryns I knew in college.
This particular Kathryn has the distinction of always having the coolest jobs and connections. Aside from giving me some great advice about networking and LA, she told me that starting this summer, she will be working on Family Guy (she has previous experience working in animation.) Very very cool job.
Anyway, after I had finished talking to her, I got to thinking about Family Guy, and the fact I’ve been wanting to write a new spec TV script for quite some time (my only one is now about three years old, from Angel, which is no longer on the air, and painfully bad).
So after I borrow the complete series from a friend and catch up on the episodes I haven’t seen, I’m going to write a Family Guy spec script. This will be a big challenge, as I tend to be as inoffensive as possible as a writer. But I also tend to write very very bizarre characters, so it isn’t that much of a stretch. I DO think it will be really damn fun. I already have some… interesting ideas.