…And other lies you tell yourself! 😂😂😂 Hey, what’s good, Sweet People? It’s Johnny again. Actually, I should say, “It’s JOHN”, because guess what? I started using my Family Name again! (Or my Christian Name, as some cultures would call it). Yup, good ol’ “John Shavers” has reared its ugly-ass head on the printed page again…well, the digital page, actually. And what, oh what, could’ve made THIS miracle happen? Lemme back up a bit:
Did you know I used to be a WRITER? Of course not. You’ve only known me for about two years now. But back when blogs were all the rage, (a time that almost predates the Internet!) I was an aspiring actor/writer. Everyone else was blogging, and I was writing. And like any Hollywood wannabe just getting off the bus, I had dreams of writing the next great action flick or show or being in the next great action flick or show. I was gonna flex my muscles and shoot my uzi, either onscreen or with a pen.
Yeah…uh…well l’m not gonna get into how that went, but uh…you can guess! But that’s water under the bridge, as they say. Fast forward about twenty years after that, and I’ve got this idea for a kick-ass reality competition show kicking around in my head. And then COVID happened, and once again, my writing career wasn’t just put on the back-burner; it was taken off the stove altogether.
So fast-forward to Present Day (and if you’re keeping track, that’s about TWENTY-FIVE years since I got off the bus with my “Uzi Dreams”! (🤯🤯🤯) But instead of uzis, I’ve got disco balls dancing around in my head! And I won’t go into too much detail, because I don’t wanna share too much before I’ve heard back from the Copyright Office. But yeah, that’s how serious I am with my writing now and that’s why the name John Shavers has reared its ugly-ass head again.
But that’s not the only thang going on since we last spoke. Remember back in November when I completed that application for trademark protection? Wait a minute, you probably don’t remember, unless you follow me on Instagram. But anyway, so back in November I made an appeal to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to have one of these crazy ideas cooking around in my head trademarked.
Well apparently, because I’m new to this kind of thang, I made a few mistakes in my application. According to them, a couple of words on my drawing did NOT match the words I submitted on my specimen. And that’s a big no-no. So to go forward with my application, I had to either submit a new drawing or a new specimen. I know, it all sounds a bit mumbo-jumbo-ey (Is that a word? 🤔🤔), but I’ll straighten it all out for you guys once the application is approved. And once again, my so-called Christian name popped up again, because you can’t use a pen name or a social media name on an official government document.
So that’s that. Everythang else is pretty much the same. Hollywood sucks, the Gig Economy sucks, the Economy in general sucks. But as you can see, I ain’t lettin’ it get to me. Until next time, dear reader…(🤣🤣)…Love, Peace, and 👡👡👡
Johnny
