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May 17, 2005:

CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT

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Well, dear readers, busy days are fun days sometimes, and yesterday was both busy and fun, not necessarily in that order. I got up right at nine and made some East Coast phone calls. I then began writing and did a few pages in short order. I’m doing what I did in the first act – just getting through it as best I can, just to cover all the points – then I’ll go back as I did in act one and begin to fill everything out. I’m having quite a bit of maniacal fun with this little play. I have no idea if the thing works at all, but I’m enjoying the writing of it. At some point this week, Miss Tammy Minoff and an actor friend will be coming over to read act one aloud, so I can see what it actually runs, time-wise, and how it sounds. After I finished writing, I had a lunch meeting with Miss Tammy Minoff, which went quite nicely. I wish I didn’t have to be so enigmatic, but when the time is right I shall tell all. After lunch, I came home, wrote a few more lines, then did some errands, picked up two count them two packages, and made some more calls. I then attended to more details regarding our recordings next week. Then Mr. Nick Redman and our pal, Miss Julie Kirgo, came over to the home environment. I gave Nick his birthday present, and then we all went to Stanley’s for some good eatin’. Julie had finished my new book and her reaction was wonderfully wonderful – she really “got” the book and said what a few others have said, that she couldn’t put it down. I also heard from my final proofing person, Miss Adryan Russ (she is a professional copy editor and works all the time), who also said that she thought the book was swell. I’ll be interested to see what she’s caught and what her suggestions are. I then came home and had to sit down on my sofa like so much fish. I watched the first hour of Mr. Charles Edward Pogue’s Hercules mini-series (is it really a mini-series if it’s three or even four hours in one night?), which I won’t talk about until I’ve finished it. I’m about an hour in. And that was my busy and fun day.

The other day I was in my DVD store, and they had what looked like a home grown DVD in a little plastic sleeve sitting on the counter. I noticed it right away and asked about it – the owner said that someone had just brought it in as a gift, but the owner said he had no interest in it, and so he gave it to me as a gift. What was it, you might ask, and I might tell you because I know you are very curious and we all know that curiosity killed the cat. I wonder if curiosity got away with killing the cat, or if curiosity was convicted and sentenced to the gas chamber? The DVD was Superman. Not the motion picture. Not the television series. No, this DVD was the complete Columbia serial, starring Mr. Kirk Alyn. I watched the first two chapters, and the quality is okay (from a VHS, it looks like). The serial is so cheap that when Superman jumps up to fly, he immediately becomes a cartoon Superman until he lands, at which point the cartoon becomes Kirk Alyn again. It’s quite unnerving to have a human become a cartoon. I, for example, have become a cartoon occasionally, and I found it quite unnerving. Other than that, it’s a pretty good chapterplay, with Mr. Alyn a fine and robust Superman. Interestingly, TV’s second Lois Lane, Noell Neill (the first TV Lois was Phyllis Coates), plays Lois in the serial. I shall watch an episode every week so it will be just like it was when it came out.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’ve got another busy and hopefully fun day today and I must get my beauty sleep whilst pondering whether curiosity got away with killing the fershluganah cat.

Have I mentioned that curiosity killed the cat? I wonder if a cat has ever retaliated and killed curiosity? Did curiosity have a motive for killing the cat? Was it premeditated? Was the cat fooling around with curiosity’s significant other? Where is Agatha Christie when you need her?

I had quite a nice long chat with the person who’ll be designing the Kritzerland website. I’ll be meeting with her whilst in New York, New York, where she’ll present me with some ideas. I’ve sent her our logo to work with. She seems very bright and I’ve been very specific about what I’d like it to be. The shopping cart is a key thing, and she is recommending we strictly use paypal as a method of payment. I balked at this, but apparently, one can now join paypal (as always, free) and just use their credit card on a per purchase basis – in other words, not leave any bank or credit card info permanently on file with paypal. That seems fine to me, and if that’s the way we go, we’ll have everything spelled out on the order page, so that no one will feel hinky about using paypal.

If anyone has any website suggestions for Kritzerland, please pass them along. We will have sound clips, the ability to have video clips, too, and we’ll even have the occasional interview with people who’ve recorded for us. I’m keeping it very simple, though.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write, I must rehearse with Mr. Kevin Spirtas, I must attend to more details regarding next week’s recordings, and I must do a few errands, too. Today’s topic of discussion: If someone came to you and said, here’s some dough, you can write a biography of anyone you want to, who would you choose and why? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we? And let us finally solve the mystery of The Case of Curiosity Killed the Cat.

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