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[crazyequalsgenius]

No? It's kind of a fable sorta thing. Means that you'll eat well the first day - but then if you eat it all, all you have left the day after is the feathers you plucked. So you hafta plan accordingly. Make sure there're more chickens.

[there are plenty of little demonstrative hand gestures to accompany this explanation]

Which is why I took both shows. The drama and the storyteller.

[drowningman]

[Alan purses his lips in a tight-lipped grimace a moment. He couldn't tell if there was something deliberately inattentive or evasive happening here, or if this guy was just... vapid.

Surely not, if he was as... seasoned an actor as he said. But also people could have an ego bigger than their actual accomplishments, and he was no stranger to that. Sometimes he himself even felt guilty of such a thing.

In any case, he tries to hide his judgment behind his general surliness, grabbing his glass of whiskey to take another drink.]

Really soaking up Aesop's lessons, huh? [A joke, to keep up his own façade.]

[crazyequalsgenius]

[if he was coming across as vapid, it was Alan's perception of his performance ... and that worked for him. after all, you didn't want people to think you had the brains necessary to be a criminal mastermind, did you? He still picked up on the judgement, and gave a humorless little laugh]

No, not really.

[you're not funny right now, Alan, his tone and expression say, with sympathy. you're just bitter and moody and day drinking, like just about every writer who's ever worked for TV. but it's a throwaway moment, and he builds back up to his usual level of cheer]

The thing that made me keep both gigs was how popular they got. Storytelling gig was a lot less physically demanding than the drama, so it wasn't totally wiping me out ... and sad stay at home moms watch both, you know? I was getting a pretty good following. Kept me versatile, kept me busy. But then there was a writers' strike, and everything shut down fer a while ...

[he sighed, looking down into his own glass.]