Im trying to decide whether theyd be better as stories told or written. Youre a hell of a writer and theres something to be said about a well written story. I think telling a story is a lot harder, especially when given time constraints.

I think these would be even better once you build your audience as a regular contributor on all things Philly and USC Football. Youll build a personality and a persona behind the guy who just talks about Philly and USC...and thats how stars are born.


>Also, for a 'beyond sports'-esque storytime segment, I've long
>considering actually documenting on the page some of the
>crazier incidents of my life particularly from the
>teenage/borderline-delinquint era into vignette/short-story
>form so perhaps actually doing it as a contributor would give
>me the excuse to finally start doing so.
>
>I'm thinking of something along the lines of "Bomb's True
>Beyond The Statute Of Limitations Situations" but breaking
>down real warts-and-all first-person accounts of things like:
>
>-the night I accidentally chopped off my friend's
>middle-finger while on acid my freshman year at Northeastern
>U
>
>-the Vegas-drive-gone-horribly-wrong that landed me in a
>Barstow jail then later stranded running from a coyote on the
>side of The 15 in the middle of a dark desert night while
>trying to find an emergency call box because my phone had been
>stolen plus car broken down.
>
>-the morning after a party we left the gate unlocked which
>resulted in a Baltimore cop shooting my roommate's beloved
>dog.
>
>- The morning 18-Year-Old Bomb in Freudian fashion'took a shot
>at the title' in a not-so-fair-one verus his beloved father
>but ended up breaking his own hand in the process.
>
>- a walk-in-the-wrong-direction from a Bmore rowhouse party
>one Halloween that led to me ending up holding court on the
>corner at 2 AM outside the
>then-standing-but-now-famously-demolitioned-and-documented-on-The-Wire-clothesline-covered
>projects sharing beers , bumming Newports and cypher-spitting
>with about 20 or so businessmen/hoppers/residents while
>dressed in a Popeye-The-Sailor outfit plus having been
>glitter-bombed earlier in the evening.
>
>-the time we attempted to break my foot and/or ankle with
>increasingly ridiculous methods one Friday while out to lunch
>in my junior year of high school so I could have a legit
>excuse to miss my winter-track invitational in New York where
>I was running three events to attend the party of the year
>that weekend instead.
>
>-The 'Attack of the Stilettos Story' that I shared here in
>abbreviated fashion a few years back.
>
>Anyway, that's a few examples to help give you an idea but
>these would be laid out with hopefully enough humor & panache
>that you don't need to actually know any of the principles
>involved to maintain interest & despite sometimes being a
>somewhat serious/twisted/painful situation they'd be played
>primarily for laughs with a bit of time-worn wisdom looking
>back.
>
>When a chapter is completed it could later be introduced in a
>podcast as a companion segment either by the author recounting
>it (leaving it open for it to include others sharing as well
>but with me setting the tone so you better come strapped with
>some doozies if you wanna compete) or then once we've settled
>into audio-banter as things hopefully move along it could be
>more like a casual conversation where co-hosts can interrupt
>or ask questions for clarification or spin off a bit into
>something else.
>
>Anyway, a lot of this spitballing might be easier done in
>email form or in my long-delay summit meeting with Longo,
>Ryan, etc out here in Santa Monica sometime soon so Shawn I'm
>gonna inbox you my contact info now and we can go from there.
>
>Longo, holla at me on email, my dude. We got some shit to do.