Well, dear readers, I had a lovely dinner with our very own Cissy Wechter. Tomorrow I will give you the easy way to order tickets to our benefit and she assured me once again that all Hainsies/Kimlets will be sitting together. We have made another addition to our cast, our very own wonderful Leslie Kritzer will be joining us, and she’ll be doing something that wasn’t done in the LA show, and it should be a ton of fun. In LA, when Spanish Flea was performed it was done by Mr. Herb Alpert himself. Herb couldn’t make the trip to New York, so I wanted to do it differently. Well, there happens to be a lyric to the song by Miss Cissy Wechter, so this time around we’re doing it first as an instrumental and then with its complete lyric sung by Miss Leslie Kritzer. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?
Yesterday, I took a floppy disc that contained my book with all its corrections to Kinko’s to have a few advance copies printed. I picked it up only to find they’d used some font I’d never heard of and using said font caused the book to have an additional thirty pages, not to mention throwing spacing off, leaving a ton of widows and orphans everywhere. Well, I said, “Unacceptable.” First, they tried to tell me the disc was at fault. I said, “Impossible.” All I’d done was save my Word document to the disc – the font, the one I always use for everything I do in Word, was Courier New, the normal typewriter font. Then they tried to tell me that they didn’t have Courier New on their computer – they only had Courier. I said, “Impossible.” Every computer has Courier New, and not only that, Kinko’s had printed many documents from floppy discs I’d brought in using the same font. He asked me to leave it, and two hours later he called me and told me everything was fine and that they were reprinting the order, needless to say on their dime. I took one copy of the bad font so I could go through it at home. I read the first forty pages and do you know what – I found several more errors, including one whopper that nobody had caught. I can see that today will be spent with me going over every page to make sure it’s as correct as possible. When I get the galleys in four to six weeks, then my three proofers can once again go over it with a fine-tooth comb.
Yesterday, I got a PAL DVD of a film I remember liking very much (from a book I remember liking very much) entitled The Anderson Tapes, with Mr. Sean Connery and Dyan Cannon, directed by Mr. Sidney Lumet. I’ve watched the first half, and boy is it bad. Very dated indeed, but also sloppy and flabby. It does “introduce” a very good actor though, so we must give the proper kudos to Mr. Lumet for having the good taste to have given the fellow his film debut – Mr. Christopher Walken. Tonight I’ll be watching a French movie I’ve heard a bit about, called 8 Women, starring Miss Catherine Deneuve and seven other terrific French actresses.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because it’s Sunday and Sunday is a day for short notes, so that I can relax and proof all the live-long day.
Our Unseemly Live Chat is tomorrow night at six p.m. Pacific Mean Time. Donald should have a brand spanking new radio show up this evening.
Wasn’t that an informative paragraph. Short and to the point, no flab, no slop, no extra words, no repetition, just the facts, ma’am, nothing but the facts.
What am I, Jack Webb all of a sudden? Speaking of Jack Webb, who played Sgt. Joe Friday, a police detective, our very own merry searcher detectives have been with us again, searching merrily. Looking for just the facts, ma’am, nothing but the facts. Do you think it was confusing for people if Sgt. Friday visited someone on a Tuesday? Shouldn’t he have changed his last name every day?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must read until I am bleary-eyed, I must eat various and sundried foodstuffs, I must get some exercise, I must watch the DVD I’ve already mentioned. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day – so I want to see a lot of interesting topics discussed until the cows come home. Talk about everything, and then post lots of responses and soon we will be the most popular site on all the Internet.