At the moment no one is paying Greg to write anything.  So he figured why not contribute more to this internet thing - just in case it takes off as a new medium for comedy, commerce, or whatever.

Greg’s Blog

June 2, 2008

So right after starting this blog someone started paying me to write video content for a website.  I'm not really allowed to talk about it and it won't launch until the fall but it should be pretty cool.  In the meantime I'm hoping to write more for this blog.  I should have something tomorrow because while driving home today I passed a kid riding his bike and when I saw his helmet it really bothered me.  Stay tuned for more... 
                                                                                                                                     

May 12, 2008

Last week I flew to Florida to see my family.  Of course you can’t fly directly from LA to Florida so I had to stop in Denver and as luck would have it, both of my flights were delayed. 

During the flight from Denver to Florida one of the stewardesses (I prefer the antiquated  term – I also call my bathing suit “trunks”) anyway a stewardess gingerly tapped me on the shoulder, as if gentleness would somehow excuse her for waking me in the middle of a five and a half hour flight.  She then handed me a piece of paper and said it was a note from the captain.  A note from the captain! 

Of course my first thought was that I was about to fulfill a childhood dream of taking control of a plane in an emergency.  I would soon save the lives of hundreds of strangers who were either too lazy or too stupid to prepare themselves for such an occasion as I had.  How did the pilot know I had put thousands of hours into video game training for just such a moment?  It didn’t matter.  My moment to shine had come.  Unfortunately the note wasn’t a desperate plea for help in the face of some medical crisis at 29,000 feet.  Life is full of disappointments. 

In hindsight I guess it was kind of unrealistic to expect the pilot to ask me to fly the plane.  As it turned out the note was an apology from the pilot for the delay.  It was handwritten and said, “Sorry for the delay.  Thanks for flying with us.  The Captain.”  Of course I’m paraphrasing - the exact contents of the note fall in the very special and private realm of pilot-passenger privilege. 

But the more I thought about it, this note was no more unrealistic than my hope to fly the plane.  Why is the pilot in the cockpit writing notes to passengers?!  Shouldn’t he be flying the plane?  Kids get detentions and are sent to corners for writing notes in school and they’re just sitting in a classroom…there’s no danger in that.  This guy is writing notes while flying an airplane at over 500 miles an hour.  Someone should give him a detention or make him sit in the corner.  And while he’s there…I’ll fly the plane.