Well, dear readers, I’ve been sitting here like so much fish, entering fixes from proofer one – caught some whoppers, I must say and have said. A few things I have questions about, so we’ll talk today and figure those out, and a very few things to run by Muse Margaret. In other news, I did watch a motion picture last evening entitled Heretic, starring Hugh Grant. It’s a horror movie with a lot of chatter, some of which is interesting. Mr. Grant is excellent, however, as a diabolical homeowner chatting with two young Morman girls who come to deliver him a pamphlet. The first half is very good and unnerving before it devolves a bit in the second half with the horror part, which does get a bit silly. That said, Grant makes it fun and the two girls are very good in it. It’s well shot and competently directed, and it has a few bits of tid that I never knew about, especially that Monopoly inventor Charles Darrow stole the idea from The Landlord’s Game, so much so that Parker Brothers had to buy the patent to the latter to protect themselves, so that was interesting. I wish the final half were as good as the first half. Prior to that, I got ten hours of excellently excellent sleep, got up at two in the afternoon, answered a LOT of e-mails, mostly Drat! The Cat! Related, and there’s a very interesting volley going back and forth with a nice chap who had a reel-to-reel tape labeled Bruce Kimmel’s demos. I had no idea what that was, until he sent me a sample of the first song and then I was able to at least partially solve the mystery, which I don’t want to talk about quite yet. There are two songs on the tape that are mine – he sent me one already, but it’s the other one I really want and thus far he’s only sent me ten seconds of it. Anyway, it’s pretty interesting stuff. I had lox and bagels for food again – very good – and later for a snack I had one taco and two taquitos – also very good. I watched the movie, then got proofer one’s notes and began entering those fixes – I’m almost eighty pages in and will do more after I post these here notes.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll mosey on over to the theater to pick up a Drat script so I can start figuring out a schedule for the first two weeks, I’ll eat something at some point, I’ll stop at the mail place to see if anything’s there, I’ll come home, finish entering proofer one’s stuff the run a few things by Muse Margaret and clarify other things with proofer one, and they I can watch, listen, and relax.
This week will be filled with prepping Drat! The Cat!, finding four more men for the ensemble and small roles, I’m having a very necessary haircut on Wednesday, a lunch with an old friend on Thursday, something is happening later on Thursday but I can’t remember what, and then we’re at the end of the month, so hopefully two important envelopes will arrive, and hopefully at least one other thing will happen as it should because if it doesn’t, well, let’s hope the person involved is smart enough to keep their word.
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, pick up a script, get food, eat, stop at the mail place, finish entering proofer one’s fixes, have a conversation with proofer one and with Muse Margaret, and then watch, listen, 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, happy to be entering fixes or to put it differently, the fix is in.