Well, dear readers, the Kritzerland a GoGo campaign is at 23% funded, which isn’t bad for a week in. Yes, the campaign is entering its second week, so at the beginning of each week we’ll do an update and a new push – so spread the word wherever the word should be spread. It would be great to get up to thirty percent funded by next week. Puuuuuuuush.
Yesterday was a day in which nothing terrible happened, so that’s always a plus. We didn’t have any miracles and we do need a few so please send those excellent vibes and xylophones. I think I got about six hours of sleep. What’s been happening is I fall asleep and wake up an hour later and then can’t fall back asleep for an hour or two. Once up, I had to get ready for the noon o’clock lunch with Miss Jean Louisa Kelly, Nick Redman and journalist Chris Willman. The purpose of the lunch was for Jean to sign booklets for The Fantasticks. It was a rollicking good time for all, we ate yummilicious Thai foodstuffs and were there just under two hours.
Once done, I did errands and whatnot and then came home. The helper dropped by for invoices and various and sundried other ephemera and then I did some work on the computer until I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
I’ve been trying to watch the TV miniseries version of Stephen King’s The Stand, but it’s just a slog, I’m afraid, with some bad acting, a terrible score and occasionally sloppy direction. While I love a lot of Mr. King’s novels, when he’s a screenwriter, his dialogue just isn’t what I would call sparkling, and it’s a real problem at times, because it just comes off as clichéd. I read The Stand, of course, when it came out – I thought two-thirds of it was great, but that the final third was a letdown after that very long build-up. Of that first batch of King novels, my favorites are still The Shining, The Dead Zone, Christine, Firestarter and Salem’s Lot. I rather enjoyed Misery, too. It’s not helping matters that The Stand looks absolutely wretched on the Flix of Net. I probably will give up on it.
I do think I forgot to mention last Sunday’s Mad Men, the penultimate episode. I liked most of it. I’m kind of thinking how a couple of stories will play out in the final episode, which airs this coming Sunday.
I spent the later part of the evening relaxing and eating some grapes and a couple of those little Hawaiian roll things.
Today, I have another noon o’clock lunch meeting, this with the set designer who’ll be doing the Sami show. I just want to chat about the concept for the design, which I’m just not seeing clearly in terms of what’s in my own head, so I’m hoping he’ll have a few ideas of his own. I sent him the script so hopefully he’ll have had time to glance at it. Obviously we’re not having a set for the staged reading, but there are a handful of things we will need and I’m hoping he can deal with them and then we’ll just store them until we do the production in September. After that, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, then I have to finish casting and choosing songs.
Tomorrow I’m not sure what’s happening, Saturday I’ll bring books to Mystery and Imagination Books and then I’m seeing 13. Sunday we have a work session for the Sami show and next week is filled with meetings and meals.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a lunch meeting, hopefully pick up packages, choose songs and cast and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Stephen King novels and film and TV adaptations? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that we are 23% funded and hoping we continue onward and upward.