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August 24, 2010:

GIDDY WITH EXHAUSTION

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Well, dear readers, I am giddy with exhaustion, having slept a grand total of ninety minutes before having to arise and announce, not necessarily in that order. I don’t believe I can be pithy because pith has left the room and all that is left is a tired Jew in t-shirt and sleeping short, ready to enter the land of sweet dreams – tonight’s dream will be a reenactment of The Randy Vicar and the Potted Fern. Meanwhile, I sit and write these here notes whilst feeling like I’ve been hit by a truck. So, here’s what I remember of yesterday. I slept ninety minutes. It was just one of those fershluganah nights when there was so much going on in my head that I simply could not fall asleep. I tried, oh, yes, I tried, but, of course, the more one tries the more one doesn’t fall asleep. I counted sheep, I counted my blessings, and even though I counted my blessings instead of sheep I still could not fall asleep. I got up for a while, went back to bed and finally fell asleep around four-thirty. The phone rang at six, alerting me that our new CD was live on the Kritzerland site. I got up, announced it everywhere that needed announcing, and instantly orders began pouring in and did not abate for nine hours – at which time (3:00) we sold out. Since the dealers ordered large quantities of this title, I’m sure they’ll have some for a day or two, but it’s selling really well. The helper arrived at ten and packages were addressed and had postage affixed, and then we packaged up some orders that had come in. After all that, we went out to the garage and did some organizing – I’ve been trying to find a few things and have had no luck. There are, perhaps, fifty boxes stored out there (not talking about the Kritzerland stock) and like a homing pigeon she found exactly what I’d been looking for. So, that was grand. I then did some banking, picked up a couple of teeny-tiny packages, and then had some lunch at Mo’s with the Kritzerland designer. After that, I dropped by Varese Sarabande and had a nice chat with the owner and gave him my book, since he and the company are in it. I said hey to my former compatriots and that was that. I then came home and did a mile and a half jog, which was all I could muster. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I finished watching Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. It kind of runs out of steam, but boy are there some funny things in it, courtesy of Mel Frank, one of the writers and the director. He, of course, was formerly one half of Panama and Frank, the team that gave us several classic Bob Hope films, as well as The Court Jester and Li’l Abner, so you know the wordplay is occasionally hilarious. Gina Lollobrigida does a great job, and then you’ve got lovely Janet Margolin, Phil Silvers, Telly Savalas, Peter Lawford, Shelly Winters, Lee Grant and lots of others. It’s a type of film they don’t know how to do anymore. The plot may seem familiar since it was liberally borrowed from for Mamma Mia. After that, I just sort of walked around like a zombie for a while and then decided to call it a day. Sometimes I call it a day and sometimes I call it an it, but that is wholly dependent on what it calls me.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m giddy with exhaustion and if I don’t get to the bedroom environment soon I may go outside and dance the Shipoopi in the nude.

Today, we are shipping out the Billy Barnes CDs – here much earlier than expected, not that there are that many to ship. Then we’ll do our Costco run and then I’m having lunch with our very own Mr. David Wechter.

Tomorrow I don’t have a clew as to what’s going on, and Thursday I have a dinner with an old friend, Debbie Tilton, who figures heavily in my book in the Together Again section. In the last few years she’s become a very well respected lawyer and it will be fun to catch up. I know there’s other stuff happening but I cannot remember what stuff that might be.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, ship CDs, do a Costco run, have a lunch, do a jog, and try to relax. Today’s topic of discussion: I am giddy with exhaustion and can think of no topic, so you’re on your own. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland and count my blessings instead of chicks and ducks and geese.

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