Do you look like a writer?

Okay, I'll take the bait. What does a writer smell like?

 

bourbon and tobacco

 

Somehow, that didn't go where I thought it might.

 

Well, you know that new car smell?

Yeah, it's nothing like that. More like old socks and stale bread. And sometimes bourbon, but not tobacco. Unless I got some secondhand smoke inhalation.

 

I've been told I look like Jerry Garcia. So I look more like a bar band guitarist than a writer.

 

Speaking of such things, IMO Neil Gaiman looks more like a washed-up rock star than an author.

 

He kinda looks like this guy—

 

I guess, I don't. My ex told me that I look like a 1980's rock band groupie.

 

That's a bad thing? I'd think a 1980's groupie would have some interesting things to write about.

 

The motto of the Silicon Valley. Worked more wonders than one would expect. I think Edison falls along this as he spent years trying to perfect the light bulb though he advertised it as a working technology. Silicon Valley hasn't changed the methodology.

 

I prefer Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

 

I misread the first word.

 

apparently I look lost all the time. like "supermarket lost child" lost. I've had people coming up to me in malls asking if I was ok.
Walking across campus to class, i get stopped and asked if I need directions.
Most recently, at work i walked up the stairs and just stood there for a moment and my coworker says "do you know where you need to go?"

yep...minds always elsewhere and I'm running on autopilot. Then i "wake up" and need to get reoriented to where I am and what I'm doing.

 

^ Sounds like the typical absentminded artist or scientist, or writer.

 

Yes , I do . Often, when walking the street, strangers will stop me and say . " your that writer ,aren't you ? "

 

When they say this, do they seem happy and excited, or angry? This would help indicate which writer they're mistaking you for (not that you're not a writer, but I don't think you're a professional, right? So I assume they're mistaking you for a particular one.)

 

I think people just assume I'm poor, poorly organized, and sometimes have bouts of depression. Which they would be correct in assuming but sometimes I try to walk with a devil-may-care swagger and flip my oily hair around like I'm a misunderstood genius. Heh heh.

 

Nobody really sees it coming with me in person. I suppose a wise man plays the fool.

 

Gotta hit 'em with the ole frazzle dazzle

 

Brilliant. Irony Level = Godlike Genius. I tip my hat to thee.

 

Flop sweat and tears.