Some things never change
“But,” inquired John curiously, “who did plan all your wonderful reception rooms and halls, and approaches and bathrooms—-?” “Well,” answered Percy, “I blush to tell you, but it was a moving-picture fella. He was the only man we found who was used to playing with an unlimited amount of money, though he did tuck his [...]
The couch and I are strange bedfellows
I got knocked down by a cold a couple of days ago. The fact that I made it through work on Tuesday and the screenwriting class Tuesday afternoon only to tumble into the worst of it on my Liberty Wednesday was an insult. While I spent most of yesterday resting and watching stuff from the [...]
Maintenance
Trying a new spam-blocker. The volume isn’t large around here – maybe 5-6 a day from my loyal drug-salesmen and knockoff-purse providers. They’re very fond of my review of Coco Before Chanel. Every film critic likes having an audience. It’s barely an annoyance; but I think having the Re-CAPTCHA thingamajig was probably dissuading people from [...]
I know that face
A couple weeks ago, Heather and I were at a coffeeshop together and she sketched me while I was brainstorming something. She did a bang-up job capturing my “thinking frown”, in my opinion.
Muscles where you don’t think you have muscles
For most of my adult life I have been horribly averse to salespeople. On a bad day, I dread even the simplest “Can I help you find anything?“, and find myself packing the response (usually something in the “Just browsing” vein) in my mouth before I even enter the store, like a boxer trying to [...]
Aerial Adventure
By the time I got to cash in this reward, I forgot what it was specifically for which I was rewarding myself. A review of my journal tells me that it was more about an extra-good paycheck landing at a moment where I was deep in The Odd Couple and hoping to have some pleasure [...]
Puttin’ on the Ritz
Ever since I got approved for my high-limit Venture Card, interesting things have been appearing in my mailbox. Invitations to the openings of high-end clothing stores, that sort of thing. Some algorithm out there in the Marketing Matrix has concluded that I have MO MONEY. Since a good chunk of my wardrobe still comes from [...]
So what did I do today?
Oh, you know, I went to the gym, had a smoothie, went to the library, got a little writing done, hung out with my girlfriend…oh, and I also FLEW A MOTHERLOVING PLANE! Me at the controls of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a.k.a. A MOTHERLOVING PLANE! More later…
The days are short, the fur is long
Just getting the Crazybeard on record heading into the final weekend of the show. Not sure what I’m going to do with it come Sunday, but it won’t be like this anymore. I’m the one on the right. Promise.