Well, dear readers, this month is flying by, like a gazelle doing a mukbang video with ASMR. If you don’t know what that means, just go to YouTube and type in those things and be prepared to vomit on the ground. There is something seriously wrong with this world when these idiot young people make tons of money by jumping on bandwagons like this. The ASMR part will amaze you. Where’s the mic, in their mouth? End of rant although I may do a more in depth look at this disgusting stuff in a day or two. Speaking of disgusting, the important envelope did NOT arrive and that is a huge problem now. Hopefully, it will be here today or there will be HELL toupee. I did watch a motion picture last night, entitled Obsession here in these United States but really entitled Circle of Two. Actually, I can find no evidence of it ever playing under either title. It purportedly was going to open on November 20, 1981 in New York but I don’t see that it did. By 1982, it was already on cable TV. Anyway, it’s a weird little movie, the final film directed by Jules Dassin. Starring with Burton, who was fifty-six when the film was made but plays a sixty-year-old, is Tatum O’Neal purportedly according to the imdb and others playing a sixteen-year-old, but in the film itself, she doesn’t turn sixteen until the very end. She is very taken with Burton, who she first meets in a porno movie theater. They become close but the film is very careful to say he doesn’t consummate the relationship – but they love each other. Ms. O’Neal has a brief nude scene that she talks about in her book – she is sorry she did it and has never done one since. Don’t think that would fly today, somehow. The film originally ran 105-minutes but at some point was cut by ten minutes and retitled Obsession and re-scored by another composer. Burton is actually fine in it. The secondary Canadian cast are all terrible. Having searched further, I’m gonna guess the Obsession title was done for home video.
Earlier in the day, I’d gotten only five hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, found out the important envelope hadn’t arrived, had a very good smash burger and fries from a well-thought-of jernt, then began doing more em dash stuff. Then I tried again something I’d tried to do the day before and which hadn’t worked: I did a find and replace search, but for find I cut and pasted in the hyphen with a space on either side and for replace I typed in an em dash. This time it found them all – all 365 of them. I’ve been trying not to do many em dashes in the last few books and have been very successful, but they kind of work for this book. Anyway, I went one by one and replaced them all and it took only about seven minutes to do so. Then I watched the movie, after which I got in bed and took a three-hour nap with completely weird dreams. And here we are.
Today, I’m praying the important envelope arrives. If it doesn’t, I’m gonna take that as a sign that maybe someone’s trying to tell me something and that my time on this planet is perhaps done. Not being melodramatic, just realistic. Because if it’s not here today that means it’s probably lost or in the wrong mailbox and it will take fifteen DAYS to generate a replacement check and that will take another five days to reach me. This has only happened two other times in all the years these monthly checks come. And they’ve only been late by a day or two a couple of times. They’re always mailed at the same time and they usually arrive one day early with the other envelope. I have a twelve-thirty rehearsal for the Robby thing to go over my song – thankfully, just ten minutes from here. After that, I’ll hopefully have good news from the mail place (I’ll probably just drive over there), then I’ll get something to eat, then come home and eat it. I’ll try to write a bit, and then watch, listen, and relax.
The weekend should be light, but I do have several things to catch up on. Then Sunday is the Robbys and I’ll do that. Next week is busy.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance), for today is the birthday of our very own dear reader Iris. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own dear reader Iris. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO OUR VERY OWN DEAR READER IRIS!!!
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, pray for the arrival of the important envelope, have a rehearsal, go to the mail place, eat, write, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – I have no idea. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping to never see another mukbang ASMR video again.