We can't even say this is an original idea, the Wicked Witch of the West was skywriting long before Shia LaBeouf was even born.
In the latest plagiarism-apology-plagiarism-apology incident of LaBeouf stealing Daniel Clowes work for his film HowardCantour.com, he's taken to the sky above L.A. to have a plane puff out the letters of an apology to the writer.
Nothing reads more sincere than a disappearing apology written out in the sky for people to capture via Instagram and Twitter. Here's the thing, was Clowes even in L.A. yesterday? Maybe he should have hired a skywriter to fly over his home in the Bay Area. At least Clowes would have had a fleeting chance to see the apology before it, along with any hope of LaBeouf being sincere, disappeared.
Ever envy kids? Sure you have. Just look at them in relation to Christmas. They're high off sugar, drunk off eggnog, and absolutely giddy with the delusional belief that Santa Claus brought all those expensive gifts... overnight... through the chimney.
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Cassandra Dallett occupies Oakland, CA. Cassandra writes of a counter culture childhood in Vermont and her ongoing adolescence in San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless will be released from Manic D Press in the spring of 2013.
When people ask what do you do, you tell them... ?
I tell them I'm a poet that works as a nurse when she has to.
What's your biggest struggle -- work or otherwise?
I don't want to work a day job, and I don't have the education to make money doing anything writing related so paying the bills is the struggle.
If someone said I want to do what you do, what advice would you have for them?
Do it.
Do you consider yourself successful? Why?
No not really. If I was able to pay my bills by doing something writing related I think I would.
When you're sad/grumpy/pissed off, what YouTube video makes you feel better?
My own of course.
Do you have a favorite ancestor? What is his/her story?
All of my ancestors on both sides have super interesting stories but my mother's mother was a welder and general bad-ass who worked through her pregnancies, could drink any man under the table, and was beautiful and smart as hell. She died before I was born.
