Two Stories And A Fantasy

Published: March 29, 2015, 11 a.m.

b"Follow your dreams...that's what all the great thinkers tell us. And I think you should follow your dreams, except for that one where you're naked at work. If you don't follow your dreams you'll spend your life sitting in some corner gathering dust like the Dreary Drones in my book Staying Happy Healthy And Hot. \\n\\tI followed one of my dreams a long time ago, when a major record label hired me to do an album of some of the lovin touch stories I told on the radio. I thought it was a dream come true but it turned out to be a nightmare. It was a Hollywood based record company and they assigned a typical Hollywood director to the session. He must have been a gifted child, because no mother in her right mind would have paid for him. He was the kind of guy who, if we had texting back then, and you told him he was texting too much, he would have just tilted his head to one side and smiled. I think he slipped into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't watching. But he was a big time Hollywood director, and I was just a young guy on the radio. So I did my stories his way. \\n\\tMy only excuse is that it was a long time ago, and I was just emerging from my Pimple Person stage, so I hadn't yet figured out that the first step in following your dream is figuring out exactly what your dream is all about. I wanted to make a connection with people by telling my stories. He wanted to sell records. It doesn't matter now, because I fixed the stories. I did them my way on the CDs at www.DickSummer.com."