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September 7, 2004:

SMALL CHANGE

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Well, dear readers, the Labor Day Weekend has ended and I had a perfectly perfect relaxing few days. Yesterday, for example, I went to the gym and did forty minutes on the exercise bike, which totally wiped me out. I came home, ate lunch, and then tried to watch Don’t Make Waves, which I’d TIVOd – I simply nodded off ten minutes into the film and awoke an hour later. And that’s how it was the whole day – just nodding off. But now, I’m rarin’ to go on a brand new week. I will have to keep these here notes on the short side because this morning I have plumbers, Termite Men and Mold Men all converging at the home environment to hammer out the details of when everything will be finished. I’m told I’ll be happier in a day or two when they start rebuilding the fifty percent of the bathroom that they demolished. What will really make me happy is when they hook up the fershluganah water heater so I can shower at home and do laundry at home. And then, this week I must begin preparations for the change I’ve been alluding to for over a month. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, changes are a comin’. We’ll be discussing that this week, right here in these here notes. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?

Yesterday, I did manage to watch Children of the Damned on DVD without falling asleep. It’s a fine picture but nowhere near as good as Village of the Damned. Ostensibly a sequel, it isn’t really a sequel at all. It’s well-photographed and features a fine score by Ron Goodwin, but it just doesn’t work as cleanly or as well as the first film. I’m now finally getting around to watching Mr. David Cronenberg’s Scanners on DVD – I’ve been inspired to watch it by my recent viewing of Videodrome. I’ll have more to say when I’ve finished.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because there’s lots more to discuss in the next section.

Tonight, Miss Tammy Minoff and I will be supping and figuring out what it would cost to reopen our revue either at the Hudson (after the six-week run of the show that follows us) or at another venue. If we reopen, we will most likely have to recast one performer, but that’s not definite yet. I shall keep you posted on the details.

Yes, Virginia, a big change is comin’, and it’s comin’ fast, which is a bit daunting. It is daunting, I tell you, but I shall persevere as best I can with your continuing excellent vibes and xylophones. Actually, in the scheme of things, it’s really not that big a change – it’s small change really, but any change is daunting to me, even though most change works out for the best and is meant to be.

Now wait just a darned minute. I do believe we’d all better put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, we’d all better break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, we’d all better dance the Hora or the Ocarina because today is dear reader William E. Lurie’s birthday. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own WEL, shall we? On the count of three: One, two, three – HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR VERY OWN WEL!!! And while we’re celebrating, let’s all give a haineshisway.com congratulations to dear reader Laura, who is celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must go hither and thither, and perhaps even yon, I must go to the gym, I must do errands and then I must sup, I tell you, I must sup. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite quotable and classic lines from motion pictures and plays? I’m very fond of “Get it?” “Got it.” “Good” from The Court Jester (I’m fond of lots of the lines from that film). “It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.” “Forget it, Jake – it’s Chinatown.” Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, as I prepare to deal with small change. When a man was caught stealing coins from someone’s purse, his excuse was that he thought the change would do him good. I’m hoping the change will do me good, too.

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