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JR Vazquez is a writer and an attorney, but he is first and foremost a professional procrastinator.  After writing for nearly a decade with no real direction, he managed to sell a screenplay on spec to a Hollywood production company.  That frustrating but exhilarating experience convinced him to put off writing altogether and go to law school.  His first gig as a lawyer was as a state prosecutor.  And after several years of trying to drink law straight from a firehose more than 60 hours a week – including a tour of duty in the Special Victims’ Unit, where he handled exclusively rape and child sex crime cases – he decided to put off prosecuting altogether and take up writing again. 

Now, following in the fashionable footsteps of a co-worker who left the District Attorney’s Office and decided to blog about her adventures sailing around the Caribbean  (http://www.saltydogsmutiny.com/), and after hearing the podcasted advice of Tim Ferris -- who said he shoots for just two crappy pages of writing a day -- JR was inspired to start a blog of his own.  

This blog is a place for him to practice his rusty art with purpose and direction, producing his own two crappy pages a day for an audience who might be interested in his thoughts, which are otherwise an abstract collage of evocative nonsense never set to prose.

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