Well, dear readers, I have breaking bombshell news for you so hold onto your hats and your socks – it is October. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is October, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that October will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. October is, of course the tenth month, for those who are counting. Holy moly on rye, we are in the last three months of 2025. Mind boggling in a mind-boggling sort of way. Meanwhile, as I write these here notes it is still the last day of September, but I’ve got the October vibe going already. I am off the Bacharach highway and onto the symphonies of Carl Nielsen as conducted by Ormandy and Bernstein. It’s taken a while to warm up to these, but I especially enjoy the first now and every time I give a listen, I like them more. Otherwise, the last day of September was rather like the last day of September, a completely weird month that certainly had highs and lows. I got six hours of sleep, got up, got dressed, and got out so she of the Evil Eye could do her thing. I went to Hugo’s for breakfast and had Pasta Papa – very good. Once done there, I headed over to my Gelson’s, walked around, bought nothing, filled the motor car up with gas, and then came home just as she of the Evil Eye was driving away in her motor car. Once home, I had a lot of e-mails to deal with, I had a telephonic conversation with my gal at the publisher, got everything set up for my friend’s book and all is proceeding apace. Next Monday, the files will be sent over and then it should move along pretty quickly. Then I talked to the author of the play, and he entered the little adjustments to the lyrics for act two that had to be made for scan to work – minor stuff. After that, I dozed off for a couple of hours, then had helping one of the tuna pasta salad, pills were taken, then I dozed off again for another hour or so and finally finished Jurassic World: Rebirth. I’d only seen raves online, which means that Facebook was only showing me that. I had little interest anyway, but it made me curious. It’s a bad movie written by one of the most successful screenwriters in history in terms of box-office, David Koepp, who co-wrote the original film with the book’s author, Michael Crichton. I know they like to bleed these things dry, but Spielberg should have known better and stopped this whatever you call it – franchise – years ago, directly after the bad third film. This one’s number seven. I’m sorry to say it, but Mr. Koepp’s script almost borders on inept, with characters you don’t care about, scenes that go on forever, and dinosaurs rampaging as they have in every film, so, what’s new? Nothing. Highly not recommended by the likes of me. After that, I finished the tuna pasta salad, and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up at nine and I’ll get ready for a ten o’clock podcast thing I’m doing for the new book. Hoping that goes well – voice is kind of weak right now due to never shutting up yesterday. After that, I’ll mosey on over to the mail place and hopefully pick up two important envelopes, do banking, I have a Zoom thing with the set designer to see some renderings, and then at some point I can just stop and watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow and Friday, I must get sleep. Sleep is what I must get and therefore I must get sleep. Then it’s the weekend and hopefully it will remain free and unfettered, other than preparing for the casting session the following Wednesday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up at nine, do a podcast thing at ten, hopefully pick up two important envelopes, do banking, have a Zoom thing, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, as we give an effusive and ebullient welcome to October, the tenth month.