Joe's first project

Altho it wasn't really a joint project yet, we had a writer's weekend/mini-g and we spent some of our time in the hotel writing a treatment for "Yard Wars" by Bruce. We seem to be at our best when we can bounce ideas off each other, creating better ideas (synergy) than either one of us alone seem to be able to come up with. Even on our solo projects up to this point, our ideas are always improved by frequent discussion with our "muse." At the end of the weekend there were notes that led to a 19 page treatment, start to finish of "Guns" or "YW" (the censored, mother-friendly title espoused by my... spouse).

We also played Dr. Mario, ate pizza and hung with G and saw some movies.

Joe Casburn is "born"

While Joe started functioning at this time, he certainly wasn't named, yet. In fact his creators didn't even know Joe was functioning as Joe. But he was working his way into things. Perhaps JOE is the MUSE, eh? The Muse began to suggest things to Bruce and Jason. Ideas for playing guns, drawings, etc. Anyway. This was the year. Don't know what day. Don't know what month. But this is when things started: I was walking around the block (hence the dating for summer), and Jay shouted at me from across the street, "Hey, that's a cool gun." Referring to my Han Solo gun. I'm not sure what I said, but I felt extremely validated and felt that yes. Yes it was a cool gun. I'm not sure who said, "You want to be friends?" But the other replied in the affirmative.

This isn't too gay, is it? ("Not that there's anything wrong with that.")

One thing you need to know about Joe: he knows how to quote movies and television. And, it's freaking hilarious. I don't care who you are. Not a lot of people get Joe when he quotes movies, but he just thinks it might be because they're retards. No offense. Entertainment Challenged.