Well, dear readers, you won’t believe it. Here I am, on location, in the city known as Las Vegas. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? I am in my handy-dandy hotel room at the Orleans Hotel, writing these here notes early because soon I must leave my handy-dandy hotel room at the Orleans Hotel and I must venture over to the Stardust Hotel, where there is a comedy festival or show or convention or whatever-the-hell-it-is going on. I am a participant in it in the same way I was at the Hollywood Collector’s Show last June – I will be signing DVDs and books today and tomorrow. So, if any of our dear readers are close by, you simply must drop by and say hello.
My pal Cissy Wechter, who is helping me with the show, drove me down here and it was a very fast drive, hardly any traffic at all. Of course, I had printed out a map from Mapquest, just to make sure we knew where we were going. Have you ever used directions from Mapquest? The directions are so confusing on so many levels that it will be my last time doing so. We ended up off the freeway and took Foothill Blvd. all the way to the I15, that’s how confusing it was. There’s a part of the directions having to do with the 210 and I30 that is just impossible to follow and if you do exactly what they tell you to do, you will end up off the freeway. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
Before supping last night, Cissy Wechter sat down at one of those poker machines, Double Double Poker. She lost the first eight hands in a row, and as I was suggesting she move to another machine, she got four aces and won two hundred dollars. We had prime rib for dinner, which was quite heavy, and I felt like a walking blimp afterwards, and still feel like that this morning. Disgusting, really.
Of course, I shall have a full report for you tomorrow regarding the thing today. In the meantime, these here notes are supposed to be short today, so let’s all click on the Unseemly Button below, because I’ve got announcements to make, don’t I?
Have I mentioned that I feel like a walking blimp? A few days ago, I posted my first announcement, about some work I’ll be doing on a brand spanking new Showtime show. Today, I thought I’d tell you all what I’ve been doing since the end of May. Since the end of May, I have, in fact, been slaving away over a hot laptap, writing the sequel to my very own novel, Benjamin Kritzer. I am now, as of last weekend, half-way through with it. I will keep you sporadically posted on its progress, but I’m okay with it so far, and if it continues to come out the way it has been, perhaps it will see the light of day next year (it would be fun to have it come out a year after the first book – but one simply can’t predict at this point). That is all I can say at this time, other than that writing is a joyous, annoying, frustrating and rewarding thing, and that I am having a good time.
There are more announcements to come, early next week. Our brand spanking new Unseemly Interview with Miss Jennifer Piech will be up tonight at 11:00 Eastern Mean Time. It’s a lovely interview, and if you ever wanted to know what a troubled preview process for a musical is like, her detailed account of Titanic and its turnaround into a non-disaster, is an eye-opener. So, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell the man in the street and the woman in the drugstore, our Unseemly Interviews are the best on all the Internet. Also, don’t forget tomorrow is our Unseemly Trivia Contest, and I will endeavor to come up with a question for it whilst sitting at the Comedy Convention today. My cleaning lady comes tomorrow but she will be giving the evil eye to the person who is watching my handy-dandy house while I am gone.
Well, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must sign DVDs and books and see celebrities such as Edd (Kookie) Byrnes. I must eat more heavy food (so I can feel like a walking blimp) and perhaps do a spot of gambling (but only a spot). Today’s topic of discussion: Yesterday’s was quite lively, I thought – What is your favorite fun thing to do – what you love to do on your off-time more than anything? But let’s exclude movies and theater. Where do you like to go and what do you like to do when left totally to your own devices? Post away, my pretties.