Well, dear readers, it is late and I am a mass of thoughts cascading around in my cranium and therefore I must write these here notes in a hurry so I can get a modicum of beauty sleep, which I really need. First let me say that last night I attended an actual Seder. I was invited by Jenna Lea Rosen’s mom and step dad and was happy to join them. I haven’t been invited to a Seder with whatever family remains in a ‘coon’s age – and I’m jiggy with it. Most years I just sit home like so much fish. The Seder was in Seal Beach – thanks to a silly and truly ridiculous seven-mile stretch of the 405 that wasn’t moving for no reason whatsoever, it took about an hour to get there. It was really from the junction of the 405 and the 10 to just past the airport. Up to the junction I was going sixty to seventy, then we slowed down to about five for that seven miles, and then it was eighty all the way there.
Of course, I knew most, but not all, of the people in attendance – it wasn’t really that many people – just Jenna, and her mom Heather and step dad Daryl, the Staitmans, including Sami, Sarah, mom Karen and dad Steve, singer Karen Gedissman and her ever-lovin’ Dan Jablons, Brennley Brown and her folks, and three others that I didn’t know. They did a thirty-minute seder and then came the food. We had brisket, barbecue chicken breasts, cole slaw and potatoes, all extremely yummilicious. I was a pretty good boy – just one tiny breast, two helpings of the brisket, cole slaw and a few small potatoes. For dessert, I had a sliver of some kind of cake and two macaroons. I must say, I could have eaten a pound of the brisket and was happy that I restrained myself from doing so.
After, the girls gave a little concert – it was really funny and fun. All in all, it was a lovely way to spend an evening. Then I did the return drive – I missed the on-ramp because it’s not well lit and they’re doing construction and it’s not clear where it even is – but I turned around and finally found it. Even with that little mishap, I got home in forty-five minutes, with no traffic at all.
Prior to all that, I was up early, did a three-mile jog, had two poached eggs and an English muffin to tide me over until dinner, and I picked up one package. Then I came back home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched the first thirty-five minutes of a documentary about writer/director John Milius. It’s very enjoyable, with a lot of good anecdotes from interesting folks. I’ll finish it up today. Then I did some work on the computer: Sami and I are doing You’re the Top in the Kritzerland show, so I spent some time figuring out which verses we were doing and who was going to see what. We’re having some fun updating just a handful of the lyrics, and I have a few more to update today. And then it was the Seder.
Today, I do believe it is Easter, a time of bunnies and gaily-colored hidden eggs and little marshmallow thingees and I shall be celebrating by myself. I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep, then I’ll do a jog, then I’ll figure out what I want to eat, but mostly I’m sitting on my couch like so much fish and I’ll at least begin the commentary for the Kritzerland show.
Tomorrow, I have a work session in the morning for the Kritzerland show, then it’s back to Dogpatch for the likes of me, and that will continue all week. Tuesday, I also have a work session with Sandy and Lanny and I have a lunch meeting to do at some point towards the end of the week, at Paramount, so it’s at least close to LACC.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, eat, relax, write, and relax. 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 I hit the road to dreamland, after which I shall greet the Easter bunny, look for gaily-colored hidden Easter eggs, put on my Easter bonnet and have my own Easter parade.