Hey, writers. I watched something die last night.  

Hit the jump. Let’s do this.

In (certain versions of) Street Fighter, before the match starts and before the two combatants actually fight, they’ll talk to each other. Oro and Akuma have one such conversation.  Akuma, one of the best fighters on the planet tells Oro that he wants a match.  Oro, meanwhile, is a hermit, an incredible fighter, and essentially an unknown.  Akuma boasts that he is a master.

Then Oro says one of my favorite lines:

The road to mastery is not so easy. Come. Let us walk it now.

One. My Fanboy Mode still trips over the idea of the old master schooling Akuma and/or two titans fighting.

Two. *sigh* I’ll get to that.

On a different but related note, I like to plan stuff out, writers.  A novel, if I were to eyeball it out, weighs in at about a year.  This website, like so many other things, requires planning as well.  Anyway, I’ve been planning “stuff” for a very long time.

One of those things was a YouTube Channel.  Emphasis on “was”.

I had this idea for a channel that was essentially a Carson/Colbert/Conan/Leno/Letterman monologue.  I thought, “Hey I’m a pretty funny guy. This should be well within my scope.”

Or so I thought.

Scalpel please

So I decided I needed to dissect a Colbert monologue.  As I was doing so, I heard some jokes that I thought we incredible and I heard some jokes that I thought even I could write.  I jotted some notes.

<> Meanwhile, I had multiple co-hosts I was testing.
<> I had topical jokes.
<> I had evergreen jokes.
<> Also, you know how Colbert has Late Night Confessions and how Leno had sidewalk trivia?  I created a few of my own. One of which, by the way, I really liked.
<> I had theme music (I know. Seriously right?)

Keep in mind this was all slated for next year at the earliest.

And that’s when it died, writers. I decided I needed to dissect further.

So my original plan was to hit TMZ everyday.  Also, possibly CNN, CNN-Tech, CNN-Money, etc.  Researching one site a day, not so bad right?

And that’s when it hit me.  Colbert does political jokes (duh), but then he does jokes from the restaurant industry, tech industry, and… Well, everywhere.  In other words, it isn’t a single check of one website everyday.  One of the jokes that Colbert used was about a quote within an article.  AKA you know there’s a guy reading articles and scouring website after website for anything that might become future material.   Or an entire team of people doing the scouring, more than likely.

Yo, writers. I really want to do the YouTube thing. Man I love my co-host idea, but I keep hearing that Oro line.  The path to mastery is not so easy.

For the record, my plan is to work on this website forever. So there’s AlohaAlvin.com plus the novel plus the short stories plus theoretical Colbert-level joke creation plus research on multiple sites.

Yeah, no. Not gonna happen.  On one hand, I am very sad over this. On the other hand NGL, kind of a little relieved.

I guess today’s lesson is be honest with yourself about your workload.

No closing today, folks.  Too depressed.

Aloha,
Alvin

P.S.  No, scratch that.  Hm… Hey, writers: 

Have you ever had to kill a great idea before it even began?