Well, dear readers, it is late and I must write these notes in a hurry so that I may get some semblance of a good night’s beauty sleep. I have been out having some food, thanks to the nausea abating almost completely. So, that was really nice and I had fun, too, a bonus. Speaking of a bonus, in addition to the small mac-and-cheese I ate, I also had the treat of having a few bites of the Du-Par’s short stack on the table and they were a really good batch, I must say, and I did say.
Prior to all that I’d gotten nine and a half hours of sleep – I didn’t fall asleep until three and I woke up at twelve-thirty. I did some stuff around the house, then I got myself together (no mean feat) and moseyed on over to Mystery and Imagination Books. Christine told me she was very touched by what I’d written, which was nice to hear. They were having a signing upstairs, but downstairs there were quite a few people buying books, so that was good. It looked like the shelves had been picked clean occasionally. I hung out for an hour or so and had fun chatting with folks.
Then I came back and picked up no packages, then came home. I had some rice and a bagel. Then I began proofing the LA show cast album package – I found two or three little mistakes, which will get corrected, and I think it’s quite a handsome package with tons of color photographs.
Then it was time for our little ALS meeting, mostly about who we want and who is asking whom to participate. Then I just relaxed.
But here’s a fun story that happened yesterday. About four years ago I bought a piece of illustration art on eBay – it was pretty cheap, actually, and I liked it. It was an artist I didn’t know but who’d done a lot of illustration art over the years. The seller had said there was writing on the back of the art board that said “donated by the artist, Gilbert Darling, Collier’s cover”. But the seller had looked and looked and been unable to find the matching Collier’s cover so he was just selling it as is, whatever it was. It arrived and I never hung it because I absolutely hated the frame and the frame was broken, too. I think I’d intended to get a new frame but I never really did, and so it’s been sitting in the garage for all this time. I was out in the garage looking for something and I saw it sitting there like so much fish, so I took it in the house, deciding to finally go get it framed. I went on eBay and typed in “Collier’s” and couldn’t find anything that was even close to this art, so perhaps, I figured, it was unpublished. Then I decided to search “Collier’s” and Gilbert Darling in both header AND description. I went through five pages o’ stuff and was just about to close out the page when my eye caught the cover way at the bottom of the page and voila, there it was, plain as day, the cover featuring my painting. So, I bought the magazine and now I have a Collier’s cover painting in my collection. Here’s the actual magazine cover.
Isn’t that sweet? I love when I find I own something that just suddenly zoomed up in value about 1000 times.
Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep. Then I’m seeing Barry Pearl in the final performance of the play he’s in, then we’ll sup, then it’s home for our Annual Tony Awards Bash, which I’m very much looking forward to. So, do attend the best Tony Awards bash on all the Internet.
This week is finishing the LA show mix, getting it to mastering and then the pressing plant, getting the print to the printers, as well as some meetings and meals, seeing a concert, and lots of other stuff.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, see a play, sup, and attend our Annual Tony Awards Bash right here at haineshisway.com. 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, happy to have found the Collier’s cover and happy I now know that I own a Collier’s cover painting from 1939.