NO, NO, MAN, THANKS

"I gotta tell ya, it just feels like a cry for help. It comes across as, I don't know, inappropriate or misdirected. It's like you're as frustrated with your own writing as you are with the world. To me, that's mostly what comes across. You're really funny sometimes, but all these outbursts and then this sort of whimpering... And you're always repeating all this stuff about your mother. I gotta be honest, it's a little embarrassing. Ya know, I just wish you could channel it somehow into something useful. You HAVE tell stories. There's no getting around it. I mean if you want people to read your work. Hey, whatever happened to that graphic novel you worked on?"

"I don't know, who knows?"

"Hmmm. Anyway, sorry to be so brutal, man, but that's my two cents. You know, you asked."

"No, no, man, thanks."