Great Expectations

I do not write of my ownership of my work from pride but from necessity. It is not my job to tell people about me. I'm supposed to be free to entertain them. But if you want to know who has too much pride I think it's all the people on TV who don't want to admit they made a mistake about me. And if you want to know who is 'cold', ask yourself what kind of people could profit from imposing tortures reserved for serial killers on an innocent artist and then try to blame him when they can't get away with it. I enjoyed watching a Sanford and Son video from the library. At the end of the show they mention its source in the credits, a British sitcom called Steptoe and Son. It didn't hurt Redd Foxx to name his sources. And Richard Pryor is listed as one of the show's writers in a couple of episodes. I guess that's because Richard Pryor didn't write music so he was allowed to take credit for his comedy writing. If I had that evidence that they tried to use to make themselves look honest, I would have sent those bad stars to a long-term incarceration. I would have prosecuted them for more than one count of fraud each out of the grand total of possibly four thousand. And I would have had the cameras on them as they were being arrested and led away. It's important to inform the world as soon as a trusted public figure is caught lying. Don't forget that I wasn't expected to rewrite my old work. And that means that the Crystalids were expected to stay on the radio with my music. Maybe my new song would be on the radio right now - only they expected that it would have come from a prison cell instead of a room. After I served a year of my multiple year sentence, they'd give me a guitar and a camcorder as a reward for good behaviour. The resulting new song would be confiscated naturally. Something else that wasn't expected was for a person classified with a disability to prove that he had any value. Once you are entered into the system they've written you off. Now they no longer encourage you to succeed but bank on your failure. Your achievements can only cause trouble you're expected to be a failure for the rest of your life. I gather that few people expect anyone past the age of forty-five to reach for any sort of goal. If you haven't made it by the time you're thirty, you're expected to give up and just wait to die. And now if it's true that some recently unemployed workers are blaming me for their misfortune, I should say that such jobs owe their existence to artists like myself. And I should add that it must have been nice for each of these workers to get paid to work on each of their shows because I remain unpaid after working on all of them. And as insiders do they know how their superiors spent all that extra time I saved them by writing those scripts? Maligning me with false accusations? Bashing my blogs and songs? Defacing my image? Harassing me with crank calls? Or were these chores interfering with the social schedule too much and assigned to a worker? How's that ex-NBC actor turned CBC pet? We all know that he put his name on my writing, and everyone seems comfortable with it, but is it true that he also tried to put my name on his writing? Do we all support that kind of thing now? Because I got the impression this morning that a few people think this character assassin deserves a pat on the back for braving the stage! Sure, bravo. By the way, how many cast members does SNL have? What are they paying them for? Does CBC miss being able to play my recordings of Pure and Harmony and use a joke name for their author? It looks like a lot of decent respectable people expected me to do their jobs as they took all the money and credit for it and told everyone I was a monster. And if the corporate media wanted to be heroes for helping me, they had their chance six years ago.
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