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14

Aug

Rejection

Jacob Gaffney  in Writer/Actor, InterWined TV

Today, my friends, was a day of complete rejection, capping a week of almost daily, brutal kicks to the crotch. Last week began typically enough. The weather in England returned to grey, and not a moment to soon, all of the sunshine was beginning to make me angry. Yes, a nice steady drizzle is the type of summer that is all the rage in London these days.

I also went up for a rather humiliating casting — as a spokesman for frozen meatballs, sold in Turkey. I don’t speak Turkish, and, apparently, I also can’t fake eating and tremendously enjoying a frozen meatball. I also had a casting as the lead in an Indie Brit Flick ‘3366.’ The director said that the part of my performance he enjoyed most was my choice of footwear. Baby blue crocs, baby. (He was noticeably wearing navy blue crocs, how gauche.)

In the mail I received a letter that was so thin it may as well have had the word ‘REJECTION’ written in bold, right next to the ‘air mail’ stamp. It was from Banyan Productions, a Canadian outfit that provides a great deal of content to the Travel Channel. It was signed by Nicole Maxwell, in Development. I won’t say much about what the letter said, except it that it probably took longer to type my address than the actual body of text.

I also pitched a Duero travel piece to the fantastic American Express-owned magazine, Travel + Leisure, only to find out they wrote a similar piece a few months ago. Also, I was told to lay off the wine-travel stories as one of my former freelance colleagues had landed that sweet and enviable position of Wine and Spirits Editor at the magazine.

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