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July 18, 2003:

A LITTLE EXPERIMENT

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Well, dear readers, I am trying a little experiment – I am writing a portion of these here notes from my office at work. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I am writing a portion of these here notes from my office at work. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too? We just got the first script back, and I had to make some suggestions about what I felt was wrong with it (not much) and also I had to fix and rewrite his bumper tips. Each show we do has bumper tips about a topic related to the show we’re doing, but not exactly about the topic of the show. In other words, this particular show is about teeth whitening devices, and his bumper tips were about teeth whitening. I changed it so the tips were about the best ways to brush your way to healthy teeth. Our exec liked my changes and now the script will be rewritten to reflect them. It’s not exactly creative, but it’s sometimes fun to solve problems quickly and effortlessly. My pal David Wechter is just down the hall from me, so we’ve been doing lunch every day. Next week editing begins and that is when my real work will start – then it will just be one show after another with me running back and forth between editing bays making sure everything is working smoothly.

Today (yesterday really) I had a chicken salad sandwich on rye bread (white really) and it was quite yummilicious. Thank goodness no one brought any Sees candy today (yesterday really), but they did bring fresh bagels so I had to have one of those this morning, oh, yes, I had to have one of those.

Isn’t this a marvelous experiment? This way I will not have to rush through the notes in the morning or late evening. This way I can relax and take my time. I can stop and smell the roses, I can stop and smell the Diet Coke, I can stop and smell yesterday’s mashed pototoes. Has anyone noticed that I accidentally spelled potatoes “pototoes”? Frankly, I prefer pototoes because it could also stand for Phantom of the Opera Toes. What the hell am I talking about? This is what happens when you try a little experiment – you become incoherent and you babble like a brook in the middle of a turkey shoot. What??? A brook in the middle of a turkey shoot? What in tarnation does that mean? It just came out like so much fish – I was just typing away and there it was on the screen. What does a babbling brook have to do with a turkey shoot or vice versa or even versa vice? It’s so Eugene Ionesco, isn’t it? Next I’ll be talking about the bald soprano in the office next to mine.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below to see if this little experiment works when we’re in the next section.

I am now writing the second part of these here notes from my office. This is fun. It’s like living tomorrow (today really) today (yesterday really). Didn’t we have a plethora of excellent posts yesterday? It was divoon, and once again I say that the discourse was the finest on all the Internet – even though not everyone agreed with everyone it was all done with taste and civility, by gum and by golly.

By the time you’re reading these here notes, there should be a new entry of Juliana’s Journal up for you to read. I can’t tell you how popular this feature has become – there are devout readers, most of them young like Juliana, who are reveling in it.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go hither and thither and up and down, and I must work until the cows come home and then I must sup with our very own Charles Pogue. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in you DVD/video players, and what is in your various and sundried CD players. I’ll start – CD, the new Film Score Monthly CDs: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Jerome Moross (with some strange songs by Lerner and Lane), a film called The Appointment which has three different scores – one by Michel Legrand, one by John Barry, and one by Stu Phillips. And finally, Our Mother’s House by Georges Delerue, a beautiful little score. DVD, finished Avanti, which does have some very nice things in it after its first hour, but is way too long for a charming comedy at 144 minutes. Next up, Popeye. Your turn.

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