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June 20, 2010:

ALL YOU FATHER’S OUT THERE IN THE DARK

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Well, dear readers, it is my day today. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, today is my day. That is because I, BK, am a father. And today is Father’s Day, a day for fathers. We’ve already had a day for mothers out there in the dark, and today is for fathers out there in the dark, although I do know some fathers who are mothers, if you get my meaning and I know you do because, after all, you are hainsies/kimlets and you always get my meaning for to not get the meaning would mean you would have to go in the corner and flog yourself like Judge Turpin. I bet that golfers sometimes flog themselves after a poor game of golf – but then again golf is flog spelled backwards. In any case, Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there in the dark. I had quite a nice the day before Father’s Day day. I got up and had to leave the home environment immediately after ascertaining that she of the Evil Eye would not be able to help lift the heavy mattress from the bed to put the new skirt on. So, that will have to wait for another day. I went and had two poached eggs on toast very early, and then did various and sundried errands and whatnot, after which I came home briefly. I then toddled over to the Dale of Glen to have a little lunch meeting with the former composer and lyricist of the long musical. It was a quite fun lunch and we talked of many things, although not of cabbages and kings. There were a lot of laughs, some amusing stories, and some talk of future endeavors – all in all, a grand time with light but yummilicious foodstuffs. I then picked up a package and a couple of envelopes from the mail place, then came home and listened to CDs whilst doing work on the computer. I had a couple of telephonic conversations, caught up on answering e-mails, and then finally sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Edge of Darkness, a thriller starring Mr. Mel Gibson (his first starring role in eight years), that came and went quickly in early 2010. The film is directed by Martin Campbell, who did the recent Casino Royale film – I wasn’t a fan of that film, but his direction here is much more in the classical mode, which I thought was quite good. I always enjoy a paranoid thriller and this one is somewhat reminiscent of Alan Pakula’s 70s films. It’s not hard to figure out where the film is going – in fact, I had it all in the first fifteen minutes, but Mr. Gibson is quite good, as is Ray Winstone and Danny Huston. So, I enjoyed the film more than most, I think, with one giant, humungous caveat – and that is the usual today actor crap of whispering and/or mumbling every line of dialogue completely and utterly rendering eighty percent of what’s said incomprehensible. I gave up after a while. No one talks like this in real life so why these actors think this makes their performances more “real” is anyone’s guess. It’s not “real,” it’s just bad. I almost considered turning on the subtitles. The camerawork is very good, and the film features a good score by Howard Shore, which apparently replaced a score by John Corigliano – I would love to hear that discarded score, as I’m a fan of Mr. Corigliano. After I watched the film, I read up on it a little and was surprised to discover that it was based on a BBC show from 1985, a mini-series of six one-hour episodes, also directed by Mr. Campbell. While this new Edge of Darkness did not fare well with either critics or audiences, the general consensus is that the original mini-series is one of the best UK mini-series ever done. Therefore, I have a copy on its way to me, which I’ll have on Tuesday – I will very much look forward to seeing it.

After that, I was sort of hungry so I sort of went and got a turkey sandwich – probably ate too much yesterday – one of the few times I’ve actually eaten three meal in one day, although none of them were heavy.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I have to be up very early to begin what will be a very long day of grunt work.

Today, I have a very long day of basically attaching labels to boxes – about six hundred of ’em (I shudder to think about how many hours this will take), so that we’re prepared to start addressing the Promises, Promises packages tomorrow. I’m sure I’ll have to take several breaks and I have to do a few other things, as well, and then I’m having dinner with a friend, so at least that will give me some sort of respite.

Tomorrow, we’ll be addressing packages for at least three hours, and then I’m sure that we’ll have to continue on either Tuesday or Wednesday to put the postage on them. I don’t think the discs will be here before Friday, but I want to be done by Wednesday just in case they get here by Thursday. Of course, I also have to train the new helper, so that will take a little time. I have the feeling he’ll be working at least three days this week, which is unusual but necessary. I also have a lunch meeting on Tuesday and a probable lunch meeting on Wednesday, and I’m seeing the Grease sing-a-long at Paramount Studios with Mr. Barry Pearl, and I’m seeing a reading of a new Sam Bobrick play tomorrow night – so it’s a very busy week.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, attach labels all the livelong day, I hope to approve our new master, and I must have a light but nice supper. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst all you fathers out there in the dark celebrate your very own day.

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