Well, dear readers, I don’t know how we did it, given it was the dog days of summer and that so many of our regulars were occasionally errant and truant, but somehow we managed to just squeeze by and we bested our best month of July. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? Now, let’s get back on track and make September a month to remember. No more errant and truant, vacation is over and Nero is back in town.
What am I, Paul Lynde all of a sudden? Has anyone noticed that it’s September? I, for one, am happy about that, because frankly, or even michaelly, August was a most peculiar month. Even though many good things happened in August, there were also many frustrating things that happened. I felt like an August yo-yo, going up, down, up, down, spinning and twirling and still on a string. Well, the string is gone and Nero is back in town. What the hell am I talking about?
Now, even though we’re in the midst of a holiday weekend and we know that weekend traffic is traditionally slower, we must really make an effort today, so that we start September off with a bang. We have a big month planned for haineshisway.com, including brand spanking new interviews, exciting new announcements, thrilling new radio shows, new fancy-shmancy things to look at. In other words, we will not be resting on our laurels nor on our canyons. It’s funny about the interviews – I sent out interviews to ten people and yet only three have appeared thus far. That is because the other seven have been lazy loafers and have not gotten back to me yet. Well, they’d better, or they will be bitch-slapped from here to eternity. Actually one of the errant and truant seven did get their interview back to me, but it is a novella, and we are trying to edit it and get it down to size. Hopefully, that interview will be up and running next week. I will ask, however – are you dear readers enjoying the interviews?
Well, I feel it is time for all of us to click on the Unseemly Button below. I feel we have not done that yet today and now is as good a time as any. So, let us not tarry, let us not dally any further.
Has anyone noticed that Nero is back in town? Well, I finished season three of The Sopranos on DVD. I finished at two in the morning because I simply could not stop watching it. It’s quite addictive. Most of the third season episodes were really excellent, I thought, and had a slight edge on the second season. There were two episodes that were definitely less interesting and successful, and fascinatingly, both of those were directed by the same person, a newcomer to the show, and to my mind one of the most uninteresting directors in television, Jack Bender. Now, I have known (not personally) who Mr. Bender was since he was a fairly uninteresting actor. How do these fairly uninteresting actors become directors? I don’t mean to say that those two episodes weren’t competent, they were. How could they not be – the show is a machine, has two really top-notch cameramen, and strong producers. And yet, both those episodes had things in them that made me want to throw my shoe at the television. A few of the episodes were as good as anything that’s ever been done on television. The cast is really terrific, especially Mr. Gandolfini, Miss Edie Falco, Miss Lorraine Braco and the fellow who plays Uncle Junior, Dominic something-or-other. The most annoying performance in these thirteen episodes happened in one of Mr. Bender’s shows, and was given by Mr. Burt Young. Annabella Sciorra had a recurring part for several episodes, and was fine, although it veered a bit too close to Fatal Attraction territory. Anyway, I can now move on to other DVDs which I’ve been neglecting.
Some of you have mentioned that there have been problems with bringing up the radio show, and I’ve passed those along to Mr. Mark Bakalor, who I have no doubt is prancing around like a wild Satyrnian Bush Pig, having a wonderful Labor Day weekend. Hopefully, this will get attended to quickly. Has anyone been able to successfully hear the radio show in the last two or three days?
I will have the first of several exciting (or not) announcements tomorrow, so do drop by.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must sit at my laptop computer and type pronouncements and I must also get in my automobile and cruise the streets of this city, waving to the passersby as I do. And as I wave at the passersby, I shall also tell them that Nero is back in town. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day you get to post anything your various and sundried hearts desire. So, go to it – post often and post long and let’s start September off with a bang. Post away, my pretties.