I am currently finishing an office in my home, and have been sifting through an endless number of boxes for too long now.  Since I am dangerously close to being a hoarder, I found some papers from my first job 18-years ago.

It was at Turner Broadcasting.  Being fresh from the Broadcasting Department at the University of Tennessee, one would have assumed that job was as a Reporter at CNN or a Programming Assistant for TBS.  But I was a lowly Telemarketer at the long-since-passed Turner Home Satellite.  Yes, I sat on the phone for 8 hours a day fielding questions and orders from satellite dish customers.  Now my friends and colleagues should understand why the phone is my last resource for communicating.

But that telemarketing job was a foot in the door, and I knew someday I would be at one of Ted Turner's television networks.  And like an answer from God in 1993 a job was posted in the building for the brand new Cartoon Network - they needed a Writer.  I knew this was my shot.  So I constructed a small video short for the network using their popular Hanna-Barbera character Droopy Dog.  And to modernize him a bit I decided to make it a rap and Droopy Dog, I mean "Droopy D," dress like Flavor Flav from Public Enemy.

It was 1993.  To some rap was modern then.

That script and my sketch of Droopy D found it's way to the top of the pile recently, so I had to share:

 

I know.  I know.  Why would Cartoon Network NOT want that talent on their staff?!?  But despite the brillance you just witnessed, the network turned me down and helped lead me on a path out of the CNN Center and on to Atlanta radio.  

But you can't tell me there isn't a small part of you that will have that song in your head for awhile.

Whoof, there he is.