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June 25, 2009:

SOMETHING IS IN URANUS

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Well, dear readers, the crazy people are out in force and they are all in their motor cars and they are all trying to KILL me. What is with people? Is it a full moon or something? Is Jupiter in Mars or is Mars in Pluto or is Pluto in Uranus? Something is in Uranus because it’s incredible out there on the streets of the City of Studio. It’s a combo-platter of people literally driving five miles an hour down a major street or people just changing lanes without looking to see if there’s a car next to them or people yakking on their cells or texting and paying no attention to the road. It happens when I’m jogging (I have had so many near-misses, it’s mind-boggling), and yesterday it happened every time I drove somewhere. It was like amusement park bumper cars. And when you honk at someone they look at YOU as if YOU were the problem – or they don’t even hear you honking because their minds are up their rectal cavities (Uranus indeed). And there are NEVER EVER policemen around to see the highly illegal and ridiculous driving that’s going on. They apparently are too busy trying to scare people by driving behind them closely, which I see every day I’m on the road. I’m being super careful right now and driving VERY defensively, but there’s just no predicting what these cretin drivers will do. Something Is In Uranus – that’s the title of my next novel. In any case, I got up early – not because of the hammering and yammering, which I actually slept through, but because I heard someone making noise literally right outside my bedroom window. I looked to see what it was, and it was indeed someone right outside my bedroom window, trimming bushes. I went outside and made sure they weren’t trespassing and from the work crew next door, but they weren’t – it was my gardener, and yesterday was the day they decided to trim back all the foliage in the yard and around the pool. Since the last time they did this was over two years ago, I was thrilled, and after six hours of said trimming things looked much better. They’re coming back to do more today, and then, over the next two weeks, they’ll be attending to all the trees in the front yard, as well as the plants and bushes. I spent a lot of the day printing out orders for the new Kritzerland release, and I did the long jog, and also several errands and whatnot. I grabbed some pasta papa at Hugo’s, printed out more orders, answered a bunch of e-mails and then toddled off to the Dale of Glen and taped a fun radio show with Mr. Donald Feltham – it will air on Sunday so be sure to tune in. I then came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire on Blu and Ray. I must say, I found this one a bit of a slog to get through – the director, Mike Newell, is not one of my favorites, and the pace just seemed very herky-jerky, and the now older Harry and company just don’t seem as charming as when they were younger. Add to that a lot of dramatic angst, which I suppose is in the book, and it’s just a lot heavier than the other three – but I guess that’s the nature of this series and I can only imagine that it gets darker in the next film. I do miss Richard Harris as Dumbledore – Michael Gambon plays it much bigger and much more energetically, and I just liked Harris’ calm demeanor better. Even though I think the Potter films that John Williams scored are not his finest hour, I found this film’s score by Patrick Doyle not to my liking – normally I like Patrick Doyle, but this is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. But the good news is that this Blu-Ray is, so far, far and above the best-looking of what I’ve watched so far – a real reference disc, and I assume it’s because it’s a newer and more up-to-date hi-def transfer, whereas I think the first three movies were simply older hi-def transfers before the technology got better. This disc’s sharpness and color and detail really blew me away.

What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because something is in Uranus and I simply must go to bed and hope that tomorrow the crazies have become sane again.

Today, I’ll be up early, jogging early, and then perhaps seeing Up if the screening time works in my favor. And then it’s on to addressing a large number of packages for Show Girl, which should be here early next week. That will take most of the day, I think.

Tomorrow, I have a lunch meeting, and quite a few errands and whatnot, and I’m now also talking to another theater in another State, a theater that loves developing new musicals and is interested in workshopping Nudie Musical. I’ll see what that’s all about and see if it piques my interest or, at the very least, interests my pique.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, maybe see Up, do errands and whatnot, and address a LOT of packages. Today’s topic of discussion: When in doubt, do as the Roman’s do. I don’t know WHAT that means, and, as you know, in the Kritzer books, Minnie Kritzer loves those kinds of sayings. So, what are the most outrĂ© and fun weird sayings that you love the most? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, and let’s get out of Uranus just as quickly as we can.

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