Haines Logo Text
Column Archive
February 15, 2010:

THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERY GIRL

Bruce Kimmel Photograph bk's notes

Well, dear readers, the weekend is over and a new week has begun. I ask you, where else on all the Internet can you get such up to the minute news? Nowhere, that’s where. We give it to you straight, we give it to you fast – all the news that’s fit to print and all the print that’s news to fit. Okay, let me get to the point here. A gal has been sending messages on Facebook. One such message asked if we could go have coffee. Fine and well and well and fine, but I could not figure out who this gal was or if I even knew her. Her name sounded familiar to me, and so I wrote her back saying sure we could meet for coffee. So, we will do so. Looking at her photos, she now looks very familiar to me. I can’t remember if I dated this girl and if so, when that might have been. I suppose it will all come clear to me when we meet, at least I hope it will. The only thing that’s coming back to me at all is that I think she worked for a car rental place and I remember she picked me up once and I was impressed that the car she was driving had what must have been the very first GPS car system. I’m not sure what year those happened. I keep thinking I must have known her in the 1980s but that isn’t exactly computing. Holy moley on rye, I think it all just came back to me. I think I met her at Varese Sarabande and that she was a friend of the gal who worked as our receptionist. Now, yes. Okay, whew! The details I don’t remember at all, but that means I was living in my first Studio City house, or, if not the house, then the high-end apartment building I lived in just prior to the house. Well, at least I have figured out the when. Now maybe more will come back to me. I’m thinking about pudding right now. That, for those who may have missed it, was a segue. Or a non sequitur. I bought some low-fat, low-cal pudding cups and I’m quite hungry as I write these here notes, so perhaps I’ll have one to appease my hunger pangs as well as my pangs of hunger. In fact, my pangs of hunger are from hunger, as my mother would have said.

Yesterday was quite a nice day. I got up and began entering fixes for the book. I also deleted a few things, added something fun about getting an answering service (yes, Virginia, there was a time before cell phones and beepers and answering machines). Then neighbor Tony Slide came by and we moseyed on over to day three of the book fair in Century City. There weren’t many people there, and the dealers I spoke to said the fair was basically a disaster. I did some business, and we hung out for a couple of hours, after which we came back to the Valley and I dropped Tony at his house. I then went to Jerry’s Deli for a sandwich and fries – I took my manuscript, and mapped out the potential cuts for the end of the book, which are going to amount to something like sixteen pages. In order to make those cuts work, however, I’ll have to write some bridging material, so all in all I’d imagine I’ll lose around twelve to fourteen pages, which will really help the focus and clarity of the final chapter.

After lunch, I came home and spent the next few hours entering about 120 pages of corrections and whatnot. I had a nice telephonic conversation with muse Margaret, who’s a little under the weather and therefore hasn’t read the manuscript from start to finish. My plan is to be finished with my corrections and changes, especially the major ones at the end of the book, by Friday. At that point, the book will go to my two terrific proofers for proofing. After that process, then Grant and I will start the process of designing the book – this one’s going to be fun and creative, given the photos and stuff.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst I breathe a sigh of relief that I have solved the mystery of the mysterious Facebook girl.

Today, I shall be doing nothing but entering corrections and fixes and additions and subtractions. Oh, I also have to do a few errands and whatnot, oh, I also have to ship a couple of packages, oh, I also hopefully have to pick up a couple of packages, and then I shall be meeting a book dealer friend and his wife at Nate ‘n’ Al’s for an early dinner.

Tomorrow will be the same and Wednesday I’m having coffee with the now non-mystery gal. Otherwise, I have a couple of meetings, but mostly it’s just the book this week.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, attend to book matters, do errands and whatnot, and then have an early supper. Today’s topic of discussion: If you could leave town right this very minute and go anywhere in the entire world, where would you go and why? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland safe in the knowledge that I have solved the mystery of the mystery girl.

Search BK's Notes Archive:
 
© 2001 - 2024 by Bruce Kimmel. All Rights Reserved