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MLK Day, A short.

MLK Jr. was a martyr for human equality. It’s more than a racial thing for me. It means a lot that I can live in an America that is more culturally diverse and less ignorant than it once was. Still ignorant, though a bit less. I’m so happy I’ve been able to have a public education where I can meet with peers that are both different and unique compared to me in race, belief and culture. Because of that, I’ve been able to become a better person altogether.

Just my thoughts on that man and this holiday of his.

Dorito’s 3D Remember Those?

Yeah, seriously, these snacks defined my 90’s. I was in love with the Jalapeno variety. Lately, my friends and I have been wondering what has happened to these magical treats.

So I wrote this e-mail to Frito-Lay.

“Hello there! :D

My name is David Bullock and I would like to express to you a concern that MANY of my peers and I feel is very important.

It seems that whenever the mention of Dorito’s 3D ever comes up in a conversation between me and ANYONE, the reaction is ALWAYS an expected, “OH MY GOD! I LOVED THOSE THINGS! That’s all I ever ate when those were out! Whatever happened to those?! Those were SO GOOD.”

This recent discovery by my peers and I has led me to e-mail this question to you.

Seriously, whatever happened to Dorito’s 3D? They were amazing in texture, flavor and they were just all-around excellent snacks. Very easy to eat too!

It would really help all of us here in Raleigh, NC if we could possibly get an answer as to what happened to these amazing bite size snacks of yours.

I would also like to advise, that with the rising popularity of 3D film, that this would be excellent timing to re-release this amazing product. The name would practically sell itself!

Any response would be greatly appreciated by us. Thank you again for your amazing products. I’m sure I’m bound to be a fan for life. :)

Sincerely,
David Bullock.”

And then they replied!!!

“Hi David,

Thank you for writing to us.  We’re sorry to report that Doritos 3D Jalepeno is discontinued. Please know I will share your comments with our sales and marketing teams for any future consideration.

When you take into account the tremendous variety of preferences, not every product does equally well, and occasionally one is discontinued.  It’s never an easy decision to discontinue a product since we know it’s a favorite for someone.

Thanks again for sharing your comments with us.  I hope that one of our other snacks will satisfy your taste buds.

Best regards,

Tina
Frito-Lay Consumer Affairs
010976639A”

So that’s what I did with my life today.

Thanks for reading!

David B.

Wayne.

What a day… WHERE DO I BEGIN?!?!

I went to school, had a production team assignment with my class in Independent Production I and Jon Williams and I had to hire 3 dog actors from animal talent agencies in NC. WAY harder than you would think actually. It sucked.

I also turned in my commercial for SCA. (Seriously, to clarify, the commercial is an ad for my school which used to be named SCA [School of Communication Arts] so I always call it that, but they changed the name of the school while I was attending and it’s now called LAC [Living Arts College]. So the ad is OFFICIALLY for the LA-WHY AM I EXPLAINING THIS TO YOU!?!?)

So I guess you could say it’s been a somewhat productive day right? Well, you’re probably curious as to why the title of this blog is “Wayne.” I’m not Wayne, I don’t know anyone by the name of Wayne except for John Wayne and I kinda dislike that guy.

Well, here’s the story.

After submitting our commercials to the teacher at the end of class, me and Jon went outside and instead of going home, we decided it was such a nice day out that we should go ahead and just have a walk-n-talk. (Haha, walk-n-talk, clever I know…)

We walked to the reservoir behind the school and walked around a bit, followed some trails here and there and eventually came across a dirt roadway for trucks that needed to reach the septic line in the woods. We walked along the roadway a bit but then I noticed a small footpath veering off to our right into a thick section of woodland.

I automatically followed. I have a history with woods. I grew up in them, I love following the unbeaten path. I love the danger and the amazing things you find!

THINGS I’VE FOUND IN THE WOODS, SERIOUSLY:
-A NICE black leather couch.
-A crate full of FRESH un-expired Keebler Cookies.
-An oil painting of a man performing cunnilingus on an obviously aroused woman. (Read above; SERIOUSLY)
-An old abandoned shack that was basically a one room house, half of the house was a barn and the other half was bedroom. The animals and owners must’ve slept under the same roof.
-A vintage Studebaker.

We walked down the pathway and it wasn’t long until I made the biggest discovery I’ve made in a long time…

We saw a pitched tent.

Yes, we all know that people camp out in illegal areas all the time but, this tent was pitched in the woods between a very high class residential area, our school, and a shopping center. Kinda odd, but not entirely… Even when homeless I’m sure you’d still prefer to live as close to civilization as possible.

Me and Jon kept our guard up, we stayed a good distance from the tent until we could see that it was completely vacant and then we approached it, SLOWLY…

Yep, this was a homeless man’s home.

I was struck with childlike melancholy. I grew up exploring the woods and finding things like this all the time!!! I was so captivated by the idea of finding out who this person was. What was their story? Why were they homeless to begin with? What went so wrong in their life to lead them here? I had to find out…

Hold on, a little side note here…

Really, all this curiosity comes from my greatest fear. Dying and not being remembered. If this person was dead, and all this stuff was just LEFT BEHIND, would anybody know the story to their final days? Would they have made any impact in the history of humanity, time or space? If not, would they have really mattered? That’s so scary. That’s why I want to be famous, I want to be remembered.

Okay, back to the story!!

Right off the bat, we knew that the campsite hadn’t been used in at least 2 months. There were 3 other tents that had collapsed and had been buried underneath all the leaves. The only standing tent, (the one that you see above) was practically flooded with water and leaves. Pretty uninhabitable, very unused.

There were camping supplies everywhere, brooms, propane tanks, grills, heating fans, several sleeping bags and blankets.

There were many other things as well, I’ll try to list them: Bike, bike parts, bibles, flashlight, cleaning products, bibles, large drink cups (Millions.), shirts, pants, khakis, gloves, baby oil, towels, bibles, sleeping pads, self help books, bibles and feminine products…

The evidence left behind at the campsite proved that both a man and woman lived in this tent together. Either one or both of them were pretty religious, judging by the abundance of bibles lying around.

I also found some brand new trashcan liners and a necklace bearing the crucifix. I took these back with me after me and Jon were done exploring. I REALLY didn’t want to leave, but the sun was beginning to come down, so I decided to call the expedition short.

Jon went home and I returned to HQ. Max Wilson (a manager of mine at Dunkin’ Donuts but more so a good friend.) was chilling at the dining room table, drawing some fuckin’ frog or some shit. I told him and BJ (sittin’ on da couch, playin’ some PS3) about the expedition I just came from and Max immediately responded, “I gotta see this place!!!”

In that moment I did remember something that I should’ve collected earlier.

A prepaid cell phone and charger lying right beside each other in the tent.

“Damn it. I gotta get that.” I thought. The campsite was too exciting NOT to return to.

Max and I returned to the campsite immediately, we snatched up the phone and charger, looked around a bit more and found a seminary students binder. Inside was a note pad…

The note pad was full of information about the man and woman. We read it. The woman’s name was likely Patty. It was spelled in the notepad as “Paty” but that didn’t look right. Reading further, it looked as if the man had been living with Patty in the tent for about 9 months, and he had fallen in love with her.

The writings within the notepad detailed his love for her and how he wanted to marry her. It was very sweet. (NOTICE: If you want to read the actual notes, just scroll down to the very bottom of this post, I copied the writings, word for word, letter for letter.)

Reading the notes only made me all the more curious. This man was a very interesting character with a very interesting story, but now that we had a cell phone with charger, we had some phone calls to make.

We returned to HQ and the entire Woodlands crew was in attendance by the time me and Max came back. We told them what we found as we plugged the phone in and scanned the contacts immediately. There was only one contact.

“Paul”.

Patrick urged me to make the phone call. I was nervous at first. Paul could’ve been anyone. He could’ve been related to the man, and receiving a phone call about his possibly dead friend or relative would’ve been devastating to him. I didn’t want to put someone through that.

Patrick also advised me to record the phone call with my webcam because this was a good start to making a documentary. (Who knows? Maybe I’ll make one out of this if I get a good ending!)

So I hit record on the computer and hit send on the phone to begin the call. 1 ring, then several more, the anticipation was killing me. And then, Paul picked up.

To see the full conversation you’ll have to see the video, but to put it all short, I got a very good bit of information out of Paul.

According to Paul’s story, the name of the mysterious homeless man was Wayne. Paul and Wayne were pastors in training at a local seminary school. They were roommates (I’m assuming) and one day Wayne decided to drop out of seminary school and roam the earth as a transient.

Paul confessed that he had no idea why Wayne decided to be homeless, and even though Wayne dropped out of the seminary, Paul continued to try and help Wayne get back up on his feet by helping him find jobs and what not.

Paul didn’t know anything about a woman by the name of Patty though, and he also said that he hadn’t heard from Wayne in about 2-3 months.

The best information Paul had to give me was that he last heard that Wayne worked at Gandolfo’s Deli right down the street from our school.

I guess it looks like I’ve got a bit more digging to do.

Thanks for reading! I will definitely keep you all up to date on this story.
David B.

—-P.S. The Notes from the Notepad—-

-Page One-
—-
Gen ch1

Luke 6:46-49 
Proverbs ch1

46 Why call me Lord, Lord; and do not do what I say?

47 Every one who comes to me & hears my words and acts on them I will show you whom he is like:

48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when the flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Page 1209

Faith.

-Page Two-

Paty, will you please give me your whole heart.

I must be the only man in your life and the only man you will persue the rest of your life.

I have not given you my whole heart yet, but when I have yours I will give you All of mine. Only the GOD of the Bible will come be-for you.

will you please try to give me an anser as soon by november the First. You can do this sooner if you wish.

-Page Three-

What is my intent? Too spend abought Nine months, depply, getting to know each other. And then, to see if we wonte to spend our lives together. GOD calls it marriage.

I respect you now. I wish to honer you then through marriage. Living too gether does not and can not do this. GOD is the inventer of Marriage, so I will folow his planes, Not mine.

I will not sleep with if we never marrie. To do so brings guilt and men who loves their Future spouse does not bring guilt into the beauty of marriage.

-Page Four-

A word picture
of life to gether
GOD first
joy
peace
Deep love for each other
Endless effection.
Inescent touch.
Breakfest together
loving each other just the way we are.

Storms: God controls how long the storms of our lives will last.
Up’s and down’s
back rubs
holding hands
Wonderfull sex

-Page Five-

making love is an art.
Forgivness
patience
Supernatural love: comes from GOD.
Longing to see my would be wife in Her most beautifull dress.
Pretty face. Pretty hands. Big heart.

Showing respect: through taking care of our selves.

My first priority towards you is that you would know the forgiveness of your sins. His joy & peace.

You are first priority in my walk with GOD.

It is my heart wish.

-Page Six-

to lead you in a verry different direction than you have ever gone.

To be a Christian is simply to follow Jesus: who is Jesus? According to the scripturs, He is GOD.

My love for you will grow strong. GOD’s love for you & me is perfect.

I will not jump ship on you!

We need to be great friends

we must be the best of friends.

I am growing to caere abought you.

I need to be patient.

Just Friends. (SLAM)

Just friends?
Alright, we’ll play this elementary game.
You go first.
Hey… It’s your turn.
You there?
Hello?
…
Game over.