running 'round in circles

Circles of Chickens. That's going to be the name of my new company. It just hit me in a flash. Thanks whoever submitted those four words.

See, "running around in circles" and "running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" blend together to form "circles of chickens." It proudly announces my state of mind at the moment. It harnesses the power of my bewilderment and is still subtle enough not to broadcast my complete lack of a clue to everyone.

Should I broadcast the fact that I am clueless? Do I need to buy a tv station or start a cable network to broadcast my cluelessness? Of course we'd rebroadcast Welcome Back Kotter episodes along with some CHiPs.

That would be the greatest cable channel of all time! I'd pay a couple hundred a month just to watch it. Even if they didn't have skinemax quality movies on at night.

Well, where was I? Oh yeah, running around in circles.

So I was thinking I should start my own media empire. I'd call it Media Empire or something. Maybe My Media Empire is a bit better name. More to the point. People like it when you're completely honest with them. Well, most of the time. When I walked up to the bus driver yesterday and told him matter of factly that I had only paid 80 cents and not 85 and that I wasn't ashamed of it, well, he wasn't very interested in hearing what I had to say. He made me get back behind the yellow line.

So perhaps honesty is not the best policy, I'll have to remember that. Running a media empire involves a lot of policies, and I'll know not to be completely honest on any of them.

If you were to start a media empire, what would be the first thing you would do? Hire a big name star to be in your hot new sitcom? Buy the rights to the next SuperBowl?

Perhaps I should start the SuperBowl Ad cable channel. All SuperBowl Ads, all the time. Yeah. We'd make a fortune!! Woo hoo!

Wait, they probably won't pay $2 million dollars every time I ran their ads. Especially if we were running their ads between episodes of The A Team rather than the SuperBowl itself.

Well, a man with his own media empire can dream, can't he?