My husband, RJ Smith, began his career as a rock critic in the Stooges backyard, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has since moved into The Three Stooges front yard, Echo Park. RJ wrote the following for Chicken Corner

Working, it¹s called. You are a writer and selling your writing by the word
and you are waiting for inspiration to spill down like the very light of
God. Hey it could happen. But in the meantime you are willing to accept
inspiration coming like an intravenous drip; you reach idly for the remote.
Because you never know where an idea is going to come from.

Somewhere, at any moment of day or night, a Three Stooges comedy short is
showing and at the moment that concerns us it is showing on our very own
living room. Never mind the spouse who casts an uncomprehending look as she leaves
the room. Working, it is called. Writing. Casting about for ideas. Hello,
Hello, HELLO! Hello. It¹s the Stooges.