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June 6, 2013:

WHITE RICE

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Well, dear readers, I am happy to report that the food poisoning episode is just about done, at least I hope it is.  I wish I could actually get some rest, but nooooo, workers are here every morning at eight as they have been for the last week and a half.  It didn’t help that I foolishly tried to experiment with scheduling the posting of these here notes last night.  The Reader’s Digest version is it didn’t work.  At all.  And I was up until 12:45 dealing with it, which was most annoying.  I heard from the tech in the morning, and he’d set the WordPress clock incorrectly, which is why it was an hour off and which is why the notes didn’t post and I had to redo it all.  He’s now set the clock for LA time and he checked it and tells me it’s absolutely correct.  I’m tempted to try that again this evening, but since I have to be up at six to announce our new title, maybe I won’t test it until tomorrow night.

In any case, I was up at eight and felt a bit better – still queasy, but a bit better.  I got back in bed, but they’re working right outside the bedroom doors and they were drilling and sanding and sanding and drilling and it was impossible so I just got up.  Of course, there was nothing I could really do on the computer because it was impossible to concentrate with that racket going on.  Obviously there was no jogging to be done.  At around noon, I decided to chance it and try and get some food inside of me, so I moseyed on over to Jerry’s Deli, where I had poached eggs, one piece of white toast and a little bit of white rice.  I was so weak from not eating for close to forty hours that it felt really good to get something in my stomach, and it didn’t make me feel nauseous, so that was good.  The white rice was suggested to me the last time I had this problem, by a waitress from Jerry’s, in fact the same waitress I had.  It really works.

After that, I did some banking, then I picked up a couple of packages, after which I came home to more drilling and sanding and sanding and drilling, which continued unabated until about five o’clock, at which point they were done for the day.  It’s all looking quite splendid.  Also, the techs fixed more things on the discussion board and that’s all working just about as well as it’s going to work.  After that, I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture entitled Beyond the Candleabra, the HBO movie about Liberace and his boyfriend, Scott Thorson.  Of course, it’s a very one-sided film as it’s based on Mr. Thorson’s book.  I have to say I found it pretty dreary and pointless.  I know the makers thought they were telling a love story of sorts, but it just wasn’t that interesting or well done.  The fact that HBO could afford the cast and the director is more interesting than the resulting film.  Michael Douglas does his best but is just not that Liberace-esque, certainly nowhere near as good as Victor Garber’s performance in a TV movie of some years ago.  Matt Damon is fine.  I didn’t have a clew that the manager was played by Dan Aykroyd – I did not even recognize him.  Same with Rob Lowe.  And really the same with Debbie Reynolds.  It all moved along, but was just too repetitious to engage me much.

After that, I watched the first sixty-five minutes of a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Earthquake.  It’s truly a bad movie – let’s just say that right off the bat.  It’s a typical-looking Universal film from that era, and although I like the director very much (Mark Robson) there’s really not much he can do with the awful script.  However, the effects are really good, and I watched through the earthquake sequence.  There are also some great shots of LA of the 70s.  The cast is large and features stalwart Charlton Heston, unhappy Ava Gardner, stalwart Lorne Greene, pretty Genevieve Bujold, stalwart and unhappy George Kennedy, and a host of Universal contract players, an unbilled cameo from Walter Matthau, and a hilariously awful performance from Marjoe Gortner, which really has to be seen to be believed.  Aside from the effects, the best thing about the film is the terrific score by John Williams.  The gimmick for this film was something called Sensurround, a low frequency signal that had theaters shaking.  That audio is included on the Blu and Ray.  I’ll finish it up tonight.  Transfer so far looks just like it should look.

I had some more white rice whilst viewing and that and the earlier poached eggs was my food intake for the day.  Isn’t it about time for another Brain song in French – this one IS The Brain’s Song.

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Today, I shall be up at six to announce the new Kritzerland release.  I’ve never been able to show the cover in the notes, but thanks to this new-fangled technology, I can now and I shall.  Here it is.

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It will be live on the Kritzerland site at six. After I announce, I’ll probably get back in bed for an hour, then the workers will arrive and that will be the end of any rest for the rest of the day.  I won’t jog, don’t ask me, but if I’m feeling okay I will eat something – maybe just poached eggs again, unless I’m feeling really okay, then I might chance something else.  We shall see.  I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, and I’ll begin sending singers and our MD their music.

Tomorrow, I don’t know what’s happening – I think there’s something happening, and hopefully I’ll remember what it is.  I do think I have to pick up some tapes for an upcoming release.  Saturday is the book signing and I do hope we have a nice crowd.  I still have people I’ve known for decades who have never had the courtesy to come to one of the signings I’ve done and I’ve done a few over the last thirteen years.  Not one.  It just astonishes me how selfish people can be sometimes.  How hard would it be to get off their

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and come to one of these?  I am endlessly supportive of people when they ask me to see things.  It just baffles me.  Anyway, hopefully we’ll have a nice crowd.  Sunday is our Annual Tony Awards Bash, and this is the only place you’ll want to be for the festivities here are unlike any other on all the Internet, so get ready for the merriment and mirth and laughter and legs.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, announce our new release, hopefully print out a LOT of orders, eat if I can, hopefully pick up some packages, send singers music and relax.  Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films of Michael Douglas?  Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland with a hopefully happy tummy filled with white rice doing its job.

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