Well, dear readers, I’m a little out of it at the moment, due to having fallen asleep for an hour, being awakened by the phone ringing, and then returning that phone call. Have you ever been out of it? If so, was there an ample supply of it available so you had plenty of it so that wouldn’t happen again. I believe that’s called It hoarding. Maybe if I turn on some music, that will make me less groggy. Okay, now listening to the music of classical composer Peteris Barisons – very attractive music it is, too. Where was I? Oh yes, I’m a little out of it at the moment. Let’s start with the fact that I achieved a new posting number, namely 130,000 postings. I watched two count them two police chases yesterday. In one instance, I have never seen so much ineptitude from the police, who let some idiot carjack THREE cars – they were right there and couldn’t figure out who exactly he was, despite a police helicopter telling them and him being dressed in a way that should have given them a clew. They spent too much of the hours’ long chase in tracking mode, while this idiot was endangering everyone – that’s right, tracking mode did nothing to slow him down or make him less dangerous. They did eventually spike strip his ten times and he abandoned that car, sprinted into a gas station while police cars pulled in and behaved like the Keystone cops and let him carjack his second car. When that was running out of gas, he pulled into another gas station where the exact same thing happened. It finally took the Ventura County police, who don’t fool around with this stuff, who don’t go into tracking mode, to finally take this moron out. I don’t think I actually watched a movie, though – oh, I watched Revenge, the pandemic thriller I wrote and which I posted to the Tube of You. I hadn’t seen it since we did the Blu-ray and I thought it held up really well, was clever, and the cast of Group Rep members all did really well. Marshall Harvey did his usual fine job of editing and the pacing of it was really good. I also watched about thirty minutes of a completely pretentious “documentary” about the movie Alien, filled with pontificating people going on about mythology and other stuff. They give a two-second mention to Mark Haggard, whose name they mispronounce as Haygard, as having brought the script to Walter Hill, which I’m not sure is completely accurate. I think he brought it to Gordon Carroll, or maybe both. The point is, he is responsible for the movie going to a major studio, he received an associate producer credit and a percentage of the film grosses, so he deserves a little more than a two-second mention with his name mispronounced. Little known fact – Dan O’Bannon, who wrote the screenplay, lobbied hard to play Harry Schecter in The First Nudie Musical. We felt he just wasn’t right for it. And now, listening to a great album with Phil Woods on sax with Michel Legrand and his orchestra.
Yesterday was what it was and what it was is what it was, if you get my meaning. I only got about four hours of sleep, answered e-mails, watched the first car chase, which lasted quite a while. Then I futzed and finessed, made subtractions and additions and smoothed things out – I’m still shuffling things around, too, but I won’t have to do that much longer. I wrote about eight pages throughout the day and evening and had to go back to add something, which I’m in the middle of and will complete after posting these here notes, and that will bring the page tally to ten.
I used the 50% off coupon for Daughter’s Deli and got the papa sandwich – pastrami (this time I emphasized in all caps that I needed it LEAN and it could not have been leaner) with coleslaw, Swiss cheese, and 1000-Island dressing. For my side, I had cucumber salad. And of course, it came with a pickle. The sandwich was fantastic. And amazingly, that was my entire food intake for the day, which is what I need to do regularly so I can lose some damn weight. And that was about it. I never left the house – way too hot outside anyway, not to mention inside, so I had to run the air conditioning a few times.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll write for a few hours and try to get seven to ten pages done over the course of the day and evening, I have a Zoom thing with David Wechter at three, I’ll eat, I’m out of Diet Coke again – I really have to buy a few twelve-packs rather than just one or two, and then at some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I have a lunch meeting at one and I have no idea what’s happening on the weekend.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, write for a few hours, eat, have a Zoom thing, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Jew deli foods to eat? And your least favorite? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have achieved 130,000 postings.