Marilyn Jaye Lewis's Blog
September 12, 2012
News from Another!
Hi, gang! This is from my lofty colleague, M. Christian. He will be in New York City later this month. If you live around there, here is where he will be appearing! So go check it out!!
CLASS: TES MEETING: RELATIONSHIPS SIG - POLYAMORY: HOW TO LOVE MANY AND WELL
DATE: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
TIME: 8:00PM - 11:00PM
LOCATION: Joria Studios
260 West 36th St, 3rd Floor, between 7th and 8th Aves
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Sure, you've heard of it – and maybe been intrigued by it – but what is polyamory and how do you love more than one person and make it work? How can you deal with jealousy, time-management, emotional rough patches, and more, to enter into multiple sexual relationships? We'll learn to separate the myths from the realities of polyamory, how to make tentative steps towards having more than one partner, and how to approach and deal with the problems of sharing yourself with others, and being involved with someone who, in turn, is involved with someone else.
Doors open at 7:30 pm - Meeting begins at 8 pm
COST: TES Members $4, Students with ID $4, Reciprocal Groups $6, Non-Members $10
FURTHER INFORMATON: TES (https://www.tes.org)
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CLASS: MAGIC WORDS: USING EROTIC WRITING TO EXPLORE YOUR HIDDEN SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY
DATE: Thursday, September 27, 2012
TIME: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
LOCATION:
SHAG ...a sexy shop
108 Roebling Street @ N. 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
347.721.3302
weloveshag@gmail.com
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
There are many ways to reach your inner sexual and spiritual self - but one of the most surprisingly powerful paths is through the written word. In this lecture/workshop, participants will hear how erotic writing (fiction as well non-fiction) can reach hidden places that often lay unexposed, and to help make personal discoveries and to assist in a personal journey of self and sensuality. Participants will learn how to free their erotic writing voices, how to develop their writing towards discovering their erotic spirits within, and when to silence - and when to listen - to the inner critic.
COST: $20
FURTHER INFORMATON: SHAG’S SITE
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CLASS: SEX SELLS: HOW TO WRITE AND SELL EROTICA
DATE: Saturday, September 29, 2012
TIME: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
LOCATION:
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
Website: www.gaycenter.org
Phone: 212-620-7310
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Celebrated erotic author M. Christian will be teaching his acclaimed sex-writing class and workshop Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica one time only in New York City!
The market for erotic fiction and nonfiction has always been popular but these days it's truly booming. Gay, lesbian, bi, straight ... you name it and it's selling like mad!
But even though the genre is more popular that ever, doesn't mean that there aren't important lessons to be learned in how to write, and sell, effective erotica.
For the beginning writer, erotica can be the ideal place to begin getting published, and - best of all - earning money ... and for the experienced author, erotica can be an excellent way to beef up your resume and hone your writing skills.
In Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica - this wildly entertaining class - M. Christian will review the varieties of personal and literary expression possible in this exciting and expanding field. Here you'll learn not just these creative techniques to writing stories that wonderfully sizzle but also essential lessons in dealing with editors, publishers, marketing your work, using social networking sites, and more.
In Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica you'll learn:
How to create love and sex scenes that sizzle
Current pay rates
How to write for a wide variety of erotic genres
Where and how to submit your writing
The ebook revolution and what it means for writers of any genre
How to cultivate your erotic imagination
Where to sell your work to magazines, websites, anthologies, book publishers
Techniques for writing convincing stories for sexual orientation and interests beyond your own
The best Internet resources for writers of erotica
How respond to fans, reviewers and criticism
- and much, much more
COST: $20
FURTHER INFORMATON: www.mchristian.com
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ABOUT M. CHRISTIAN:
M. Christian is - among many things - an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, Pirate Booty, My Love For All That Is Bizarre: Sherlock Holmes Erotica, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll. His site is www.mchristian.com
CLASS: TES MEETING: RELATIONSHIPS SIG - POLYAMORY: HOW TO LOVE MANY AND WELL
DATE: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
TIME: 8:00PM - 11:00PM
LOCATION: Joria Studios
260 West 36th St, 3rd Floor, between 7th and 8th Aves
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Sure, you've heard of it – and maybe been intrigued by it – but what is polyamory and how do you love more than one person and make it work? How can you deal with jealousy, time-management, emotional rough patches, and more, to enter into multiple sexual relationships? We'll learn to separate the myths from the realities of polyamory, how to make tentative steps towards having more than one partner, and how to approach and deal with the problems of sharing yourself with others, and being involved with someone who, in turn, is involved with someone else.
Doors open at 7:30 pm - Meeting begins at 8 pm
COST: TES Members $4, Students with ID $4, Reciprocal Groups $6, Non-Members $10
FURTHER INFORMATON: TES (https://www.tes.org)
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CLASS: MAGIC WORDS: USING EROTIC WRITING TO EXPLORE YOUR HIDDEN SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY
DATE: Thursday, September 27, 2012
TIME: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
LOCATION:
SHAG ...a sexy shop
108 Roebling Street @ N. 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
347.721.3302
weloveshag@gmail.com
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
There are many ways to reach your inner sexual and spiritual self - but one of the most surprisingly powerful paths is through the written word. In this lecture/workshop, participants will hear how erotic writing (fiction as well non-fiction) can reach hidden places that often lay unexposed, and to help make personal discoveries and to assist in a personal journey of self and sensuality. Participants will learn how to free their erotic writing voices, how to develop their writing towards discovering their erotic spirits within, and when to silence - and when to listen - to the inner critic.
COST: $20
FURTHER INFORMATON: SHAG’S SITE
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CLASS: SEX SELLS: HOW TO WRITE AND SELL EROTICA
DATE: Saturday, September 29, 2012
TIME: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
LOCATION:
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
Website: www.gaycenter.org
Phone: 212-620-7310
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Celebrated erotic author M. Christian will be teaching his acclaimed sex-writing class and workshop Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica one time only in New York City!
The market for erotic fiction and nonfiction has always been popular but these days it's truly booming. Gay, lesbian, bi, straight ... you name it and it's selling like mad!
But even though the genre is more popular that ever, doesn't mean that there aren't important lessons to be learned in how to write, and sell, effective erotica.
For the beginning writer, erotica can be the ideal place to begin getting published, and - best of all - earning money ... and for the experienced author, erotica can be an excellent way to beef up your resume and hone your writing skills.
In Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica - this wildly entertaining class - M. Christian will review the varieties of personal and literary expression possible in this exciting and expanding field. Here you'll learn not just these creative techniques to writing stories that wonderfully sizzle but also essential lessons in dealing with editors, publishers, marketing your work, using social networking sites, and more.
In Sex Sells: How To Write And Sell Erotica you'll learn:
How to create love and sex scenes that sizzle
Current pay rates
How to write for a wide variety of erotic genres
Where and how to submit your writing
The ebook revolution and what it means for writers of any genre
How to cultivate your erotic imagination
Where to sell your work to magazines, websites, anthologies, book publishers
Techniques for writing convincing stories for sexual orientation and interests beyond your own
The best Internet resources for writers of erotica
How respond to fans, reviewers and criticism
- and much, much more
COST: $20
FURTHER INFORMATON: www.mchristian.com
#
ABOUT M. CHRISTIAN:
M. Christian is - among many things - an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, Pirate Booty, My Love For All That Is Bizarre: Sherlock Holmes Erotica, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises, Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, Pornotopia, How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, Fingers Breadth, and Painted Doll. His site is www.mchristian.com
August 22, 2012
R.I.P. Bill Brent, 1960-2012
I will post more about this in the coming days -- I will post a memorial or a tribute.
Some of you knew Bill as a colleague and friend -- a brave publisher and a gifted writer. Most loyal readers of this blog only knew him as "Bill" -- the friend who came to live with me for awhile last summer.
Bill had moved back to the San Francisco area after he left my house. He was not well. In fact, he was very, very ill and had been for several years.
Sunday, he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and his body washed up on shore Monday. I am very, very disheartened by this news, although not really surprised.
I will write more in detail about his life, his art, his outlook very soon. Take care.
Some of you knew Bill as a colleague and friend -- a brave publisher and a gifted writer. Most loyal readers of this blog only knew him as "Bill" -- the friend who came to live with me for awhile last summer.
Bill had moved back to the San Francisco area after he left my house. He was not well. In fact, he was very, very ill and had been for several years.
Sunday, he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and his body washed up on shore Monday. I am very, very disheartened by this news, although not really surprised.
I will write more in detail about his life, his art, his outlook very soon. Take care.
May 23, 2012
Round 2 !!
You'll be relieved to know that the "let's not drink coffee anymore" idea didn't really pan out. I lasted for 1/2 a morning, then went straight back to the wonderment of a good cup of freshly percolated, piping hot country mountain morning roast -- something like that. Anyway, the point is, I have come back to my senses! Clearly I was out of my mind (or deep into my cups -- or BOTH!!) when I came up with that harebrained scheme. The joy is back, the bliss is back, the rapid heartbeat is back. In short: I am myself again and that is a cause for celebration.
All righty!
Well, I was sad to note this morning that Eugene Polley has died. He was 96.
Who is Eugene Polley, you might ask? Why, he was the inventor of the TV remote control! A man who saw fit to make our complicated lives so much simpler!! Yay!! Don't move if you don't have to -- change the channel from right where you are!! Even if it means you have to get up and find the remote control first. Go get it, then go sit back down, then change the channel 'til your heart's content!!
You know, it used to be really hard to change the channel on a TV set. It wasn't just some little button you pushed; it was a dial that had to be turned. So not only did you have to stand up and walk across the floor, you then had to get your fingers and wrist involved. You also had to know how to count -- you had be able to recognize western numerals. And you had to make sure that the numeral you wanted was going straight up on the dial. Vision was often imperative when changing the channel on a TV set. You are now probably beginning to grasp what a great man Eugene Polley truly was...
In the 1960s, my grandfather was the only man on planet Earth who owned a remote control (or so I thought). And he used it to change the channel on his COLOR (!!) TV. His house was also the only house on planet Earth, in the 1960s, that had Central Air Conditioning!! And they kept the house frosty cold all summer long. Go to the pool, get burned to a crisp, play all day out in the hot summer sun with my very-much-younger-then stalwart cousin, then walk in through the kitchen door to my grandparents' house and --ZAPPO! -- Mr. Freeze!!
Plus, they had those plastic air-vent director-thingies that seemed to make each room even frostier-frosty cold. (I used to know what those plastic things were really called. And by "used to", I mean that only a handful of days ago, I was in a Home Depot with my dad and we were buying several of them and not only did I know full well what they were called, I led him directly to the aisle within the Home Depot where they were stocked. Clearly, I must need more coffee or something this morning...Ach!)
Anyway, my point is, that I have always equated remote controls, color TVs, and central AC with rich people's homes. Truth be told, I'm still kind of equating that idea of central AC with rich people's homes because I can never get the freon to stay inside my central AC, and I pay through the nose, month after month, year after year, for my home warranty policy because, if it is the very last thing I get to experience on planet Earth, that damn company is going to replace my ancient central AC unit with a brand new energy efficient one that won't leak freon and won't cost me a fucking fortune to run and won't kill the entire environment...
Yes, I digress. But that's what makes life interesting, isn't it, gang??
Well, okay!! Today is Wednesday. Often referred to by some as "hump day." I still call it "Wednesday," or sometimes "Weds." -- if I'm in a hurry and know for certain I will misspell it anyway so why not abbreviate it from the start? For some reason, I have always liked Wednesdays. Wednesday is the "day of Mercury," who was the god of trade, thieves, and travel. Not sure how all those things are related, but they look ominous indeed, don't they, gang? I mean, when grouped together like that?
Before I close and begin my day devoted to trade, thieves, and travel, I want to mention that I saw the trailer for the new movie version of The Great Gatsby that is coming soon and which stars Leonardo DiCaprio. Up until the moment I saw the trailer, I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. I really like Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels of all time. Well, I will still go see the film, but I have very unsettled feelings about it now. It will certainly be a spectacle, much like how the Jazz Age itself was, but, wow, does it look a little too over the top in every imaginable way. I guess we'll find out.
Okay, that said, go out there and have a bang-up Wednesday, gang, wherever you are and whatever you trade or steal, and wherever you travel to!! Thanks for visiting, gang. See ya!!
All righty!
Well, I was sad to note this morning that Eugene Polley has died. He was 96.
Who is Eugene Polley, you might ask? Why, he was the inventor of the TV remote control! A man who saw fit to make our complicated lives so much simpler!! Yay!! Don't move if you don't have to -- change the channel from right where you are!! Even if it means you have to get up and find the remote control first. Go get it, then go sit back down, then change the channel 'til your heart's content!!
You know, it used to be really hard to change the channel on a TV set. It wasn't just some little button you pushed; it was a dial that had to be turned. So not only did you have to stand up and walk across the floor, you then had to get your fingers and wrist involved. You also had to know how to count -- you had be able to recognize western numerals. And you had to make sure that the numeral you wanted was going straight up on the dial. Vision was often imperative when changing the channel on a TV set. You are now probably beginning to grasp what a great man Eugene Polley truly was...
In the 1960s, my grandfather was the only man on planet Earth who owned a remote control (or so I thought). And he used it to change the channel on his COLOR (!!) TV. His house was also the only house on planet Earth, in the 1960s, that had Central Air Conditioning!! And they kept the house frosty cold all summer long. Go to the pool, get burned to a crisp, play all day out in the hot summer sun with my very-much-younger-then stalwart cousin, then walk in through the kitchen door to my grandparents' house and --ZAPPO! -- Mr. Freeze!!
Plus, they had those plastic air-vent director-thingies that seemed to make each room even frostier-frosty cold. (I used to know what those plastic things were really called. And by "used to", I mean that only a handful of days ago, I was in a Home Depot with my dad and we were buying several of them and not only did I know full well what they were called, I led him directly to the aisle within the Home Depot where they were stocked. Clearly, I must need more coffee or something this morning...Ach!)
Anyway, my point is, that I have always equated remote controls, color TVs, and central AC with rich people's homes. Truth be told, I'm still kind of equating that idea of central AC with rich people's homes because I can never get the freon to stay inside my central AC, and I pay through the nose, month after month, year after year, for my home warranty policy because, if it is the very last thing I get to experience on planet Earth, that damn company is going to replace my ancient central AC unit with a brand new energy efficient one that won't leak freon and won't cost me a fucking fortune to run and won't kill the entire environment...
Yes, I digress. But that's what makes life interesting, isn't it, gang??
Well, okay!! Today is Wednesday. Often referred to by some as "hump day." I still call it "Wednesday," or sometimes "Weds." -- if I'm in a hurry and know for certain I will misspell it anyway so why not abbreviate it from the start? For some reason, I have always liked Wednesdays. Wednesday is the "day of Mercury," who was the god of trade, thieves, and travel. Not sure how all those things are related, but they look ominous indeed, don't they, gang? I mean, when grouped together like that?
Before I close and begin my day devoted to trade, thieves, and travel, I want to mention that I saw the trailer for the new movie version of The Great Gatsby that is coming soon and which stars Leonardo DiCaprio. Up until the moment I saw the trailer, I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. I really like Leonardo DiCaprio, and The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels of all time. Well, I will still go see the film, but I have very unsettled feelings about it now. It will certainly be a spectacle, much like how the Jazz Age itself was, but, wow, does it look a little too over the top in every imaginable way. I guess we'll find out.
Okay, that said, go out there and have a bang-up Wednesday, gang, wherever you are and whatever you trade or steal, and wherever you travel to!! Thanks for visiting, gang. See ya!!
May 19, 2012
Oddly brain-dead today!!
I watched American Graffiti for the first time in decades last night, but I don't think that's why I am oddly brain-dead this morning... (for some reason, I am super tired today.)
One thing I discovered by watching that film last night, though, is that I know the words to every single song in that film because the songs all became really popular again when that movie wound up being a smash hit in 1973. So, even while the film is a nostalgic look at 1962, here in Marilyn's World of 2012, it is now also a nostalgic look at 1973 since all those popular songs from 1962 were popular once again in 1973, when I was 13 years old...
The age of 13 is perfect fodder for creating nostalgia, btw. Even if you didn't exactly appreciate being 13...
Aside from the fact that I phrased that thought really weirdly (not the thought about 13 being perfect fodder, but the thought above it), if you really consider it for a moment, don't you find that 1962 vs. 1973 thing really weird? In 1973, when I was 13, the era of 1962 seemed millions of years earlier. So it seemed like all those songs were from a million years before -- and not just 11 years, okay? And now here it is almost 40 years later, and I'm watching a nostalgic film about an era that was 50 years ago, and suddenly that 11 year span seems quite paltry indeed! It was almost as if the film had brought back songs that had been popular 5 minutes prior... but, as I said, at age 13, that time-perspective thing is seriously out of whack.
In fact, what brought all this on in my head last night, was looking at all these actors who later became very famous -- seeing them again when they were so young & unknown. Most of them have grey hair now, etc. And I thought, Wow, these actors are so old now -- I guess because this movie was made 40 years ago... Then of course I realized, Oh no!! I'm really old and grey now, too, because this movie was made 40 years ago!!
Ha ha ha. Life's really funny that way, isn't it, gang? It suddenly makes you really old...
One thing I enjoy thinking about is that "time-perspective thing" and how it changes as we get older. I love that shift in perspective: from "forever" to a "heartbeat." I like to think about historical events that seemed like ancient history when I was little, and see now that it hadn't really been that long a time between the event and my coming here. For instance, Hitler being dead only 15 years before I was born. When I was little, not only did it seem like Hitler had lived in some long ago century, but also on some other distant planet that was all in black & white. Now I can see that 15 years is really just a heartbeat ago. And, of course, Germany is a country that thrives in full color, here on planet Earth.
(You'll notice I tend to bring up Hitler a lot when I am talking about the nature of Time. I am basically a WWII fanatic, but only the European theater, not the Pacific one. When I was little, I was never afraid of "monsters" or that type of vague thing; I was in fact terrified of Nazis. I was afraid that Nazis were hiding in my closet and it was really, really terrifying to me. I would be so scared that I couldn't even speak or move. I would just lie in my bed in the dark, in my perfect little pink & white Ohio-American bedroom, frozen in complete terror, certain that there was a Nazi in my closet.)
Ain't girlhood grand, gang??
Okay, well, here it is: Saturday morning!! Sunny, gorgeous, peaceful, blissful!! And all I have to do today is ... Yes! Sit at my computer and work!! So I'm going to get crackin' on that. Thanks for visiting, gang. I hope you have something really fun planned for today. TGIS, right??? Okay. See ya!
One thing I discovered by watching that film last night, though, is that I know the words to every single song in that film because the songs all became really popular again when that movie wound up being a smash hit in 1973. So, even while the film is a nostalgic look at 1962, here in Marilyn's World of 2012, it is now also a nostalgic look at 1973 since all those popular songs from 1962 were popular once again in 1973, when I was 13 years old...
The age of 13 is perfect fodder for creating nostalgia, btw. Even if you didn't exactly appreciate being 13...
Aside from the fact that I phrased that thought really weirdly (not the thought about 13 being perfect fodder, but the thought above it), if you really consider it for a moment, don't you find that 1962 vs. 1973 thing really weird? In 1973, when I was 13, the era of 1962 seemed millions of years earlier. So it seemed like all those songs were from a million years before -- and not just 11 years, okay? And now here it is almost 40 years later, and I'm watching a nostalgic film about an era that was 50 years ago, and suddenly that 11 year span seems quite paltry indeed! It was almost as if the film had brought back songs that had been popular 5 minutes prior... but, as I said, at age 13, that time-perspective thing is seriously out of whack.
In fact, what brought all this on in my head last night, was looking at all these actors who later became very famous -- seeing them again when they were so young & unknown. Most of them have grey hair now, etc. And I thought, Wow, these actors are so old now -- I guess because this movie was made 40 years ago... Then of course I realized, Oh no!! I'm really old and grey now, too, because this movie was made 40 years ago!!
Ha ha ha. Life's really funny that way, isn't it, gang? It suddenly makes you really old...
One thing I enjoy thinking about is that "time-perspective thing" and how it changes as we get older. I love that shift in perspective: from "forever" to a "heartbeat." I like to think about historical events that seemed like ancient history when I was little, and see now that it hadn't really been that long a time between the event and my coming here. For instance, Hitler being dead only 15 years before I was born. When I was little, not only did it seem like Hitler had lived in some long ago century, but also on some other distant planet that was all in black & white. Now I can see that 15 years is really just a heartbeat ago. And, of course, Germany is a country that thrives in full color, here on planet Earth.
(You'll notice I tend to bring up Hitler a lot when I am talking about the nature of Time. I am basically a WWII fanatic, but only the European theater, not the Pacific one. When I was little, I was never afraid of "monsters" or that type of vague thing; I was in fact terrified of Nazis. I was afraid that Nazis were hiding in my closet and it was really, really terrifying to me. I would be so scared that I couldn't even speak or move. I would just lie in my bed in the dark, in my perfect little pink & white Ohio-American bedroom, frozen in complete terror, certain that there was a Nazi in my closet.)
Ain't girlhood grand, gang??
Okay, well, here it is: Saturday morning!! Sunny, gorgeous, peaceful, blissful!! And all I have to do today is ... Yes! Sit at my computer and work!! So I'm going to get crackin' on that. Thanks for visiting, gang. I hope you have something really fun planned for today. TGIS, right??? Okay. See ya!
May 18, 2012
OMG, People!!!
What gives with this endlessly breathtaking weather????
Wow, yet another amazing day -- and, on top of the spiritual gloriousness of it (some people might just say "glory" but why do that when you can make up a new word that sounds way more important and uses a ton of unnecessary letters??!!) -- it's FRIDAY!! Yay!!
Sorry that I've been absent from here again this week, gang. I am just so busy these days that I am not finding enough time in the day to get everything done and do yoga, so I've been trying to focus on squeezing the yoga in there somehow. Then -- poof! -- the days really disappear!
An urgent update on my patio furniture: I no longer need just one fake wicker patio chair, I now need the whole set. The loveseat-thingie has a wobbly leg now, too. What is left of the current fake wicker patio set has been moved back into the sun room, where the cats are happily luxuriating on it in the ceaselessly happy sunshine... However, this leaves my patio "furniture-less"!! (No, I don't count my seriously pretty white mosaic bistro set as "patio" furniture because it cannot be left out in the rain, nor do I count the blue plastic fake Adirondack chairs as "patio" furniture because they remain out in the yard, far from the actual patio -- a significant difference! And of course my picnic table is not "patio" furniture because it is a picnic table!! It doesn't matter that, technically, it is kind of sitting on my patio even as I type...)
The good news is that when I happened to mention to my stalwart cousin that I needed to make a trip out to Garden Ridge (see post from May 6th-- unless, of course, you have it memorized!!) (You never know!!), she said, "Oh, I want to go with you! Let's go together!!" I was so psyched to have company for such a fun outing (Garden Ridge can easily take all afternoon, seriously). However, she promptly left for a week in Las Vegas and when she returns -- dare I say, the MOMENT she returns?? -- we must go see Dark Shadows again but this time in IMAX!
For someone who can barely find time to blog anymore, an all-day outing at a store clear in another town, as well as a return trip to the movie theater become oddly unmanageable. In fact, a very old friend (well, she's not actually all that old, we've just been friends for a very long time -- since my wee bonny girlhood) is moving to Texas and has been trying to get together with me for months now. She finally said, "How about I take you to breakfast really early Sunday morning?" Privately, I was thinking, Oh no, very early Sunday morning is my time for sitting peacefully and staring at the world!! However, I said, "Sure!! I'd so love that!! Let's do it!!"
I guess I will move "sitting peacefully and staring at the world" to tomorrow morning, instead.
Meanwhile, I hope you have a really swell Friday planned, wherever you are, gang. I also hope you're having the same kind of unspeakably beautiful weather. I leave you with this video -- a favorite of mine for when I want to celebrate the awesomeness of creation.
See ya, gang, and thanks for visiting!!
Wow, yet another amazing day -- and, on top of the spiritual gloriousness of it (some people might just say "glory" but why do that when you can make up a new word that sounds way more important and uses a ton of unnecessary letters??!!) -- it's FRIDAY!! Yay!!
Sorry that I've been absent from here again this week, gang. I am just so busy these days that I am not finding enough time in the day to get everything done and do yoga, so I've been trying to focus on squeezing the yoga in there somehow. Then -- poof! -- the days really disappear!
An urgent update on my patio furniture: I no longer need just one fake wicker patio chair, I now need the whole set. The loveseat-thingie has a wobbly leg now, too. What is left of the current fake wicker patio set has been moved back into the sun room, where the cats are happily luxuriating on it in the ceaselessly happy sunshine... However, this leaves my patio "furniture-less"!! (No, I don't count my seriously pretty white mosaic bistro set as "patio" furniture because it cannot be left out in the rain, nor do I count the blue plastic fake Adirondack chairs as "patio" furniture because they remain out in the yard, far from the actual patio -- a significant difference! And of course my picnic table is not "patio" furniture because it is a picnic table!! It doesn't matter that, technically, it is kind of sitting on my patio even as I type...)
The good news is that when I happened to mention to my stalwart cousin that I needed to make a trip out to Garden Ridge (see post from May 6th-- unless, of course, you have it memorized!!) (You never know!!), she said, "Oh, I want to go with you! Let's go together!!" I was so psyched to have company for such a fun outing (Garden Ridge can easily take all afternoon, seriously). However, she promptly left for a week in Las Vegas and when she returns -- dare I say, the MOMENT she returns?? -- we must go see Dark Shadows again but this time in IMAX!
For someone who can barely find time to blog anymore, an all-day outing at a store clear in another town, as well as a return trip to the movie theater become oddly unmanageable. In fact, a very old friend (well, she's not actually all that old, we've just been friends for a very long time -- since my wee bonny girlhood) is moving to Texas and has been trying to get together with me for months now. She finally said, "How about I take you to breakfast really early Sunday morning?" Privately, I was thinking, Oh no, very early Sunday morning is my time for sitting peacefully and staring at the world!! However, I said, "Sure!! I'd so love that!! Let's do it!!"
I guess I will move "sitting peacefully and staring at the world" to tomorrow morning, instead.
Meanwhile, I hope you have a really swell Friday planned, wherever you are, gang. I also hope you're having the same kind of unspeakably beautiful weather. I leave you with this video -- a favorite of mine for when I want to celebrate the awesomeness of creation.
See ya, gang, and thanks for visiting!!
May 12, 2012
Dark Shadows!! Yay!!
Well, we loved it -- of course! And we will be seeing it again because we couldn't see it in IMAX yesterday and we really want to go back and see it in IMAX. (Luckily, we are armed to the teeth with gift cards, pre-paid passes, etc., etc. for AMC theaters! Whew.)
I don't really know how someone who is unfamiliar with the Dark Shadows TV show will react to this movie. It seemed like a fun story, regardless of the Dark Shadows elements, but I can't be impartial. However, if you ARE a fan of Dark Shadows -- as my stalwart cousin and I are -- then I think you are really going to appreciate this movie.
You know, it is not some sort of side-splitting laugh-a-thon. There were many moments that were funny. But mostly what this movie does is capture what was so belovedly corny and perhaps a bit campy and "self-serious" about the original version. I don't know how they did that, but they did. Michelle Pfeiffer was fucking phenomenal. It was like she walked straight out of the original cast. That weird, almost wooden, self-conscious aura that those original actors had in that show. But she also transcended it.
Eva Green was -- I don't know what. Stupefyingly watchable? God's gift to lip gloss? Evil?? All three, perhaps???
And Helena Bonham Carter is her usual, utterly insane self. She is so fucking hilarious. I don't know how she does it. You know, in the early days, she and her breasts were cast in those never-endingly straight-laced types of serious-acting roles. I absolutely never cared for her. But now that she does all these Tim Burton films, she is able to be so fucking brilliant. She chews up the fucking screen (but in the best possible way). I just love her.
I'm not sure what to say, yet, about Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Maybe I am still trying to process it. I don't know how he manages to get so totally inside a character and become it with so much compassion, you know? Sustain it, even though the character might be ridiculous. Obviously, there are elements to this character that are just inherently silly and ridiculous, and as usual, he nailed those. But there is this other element going on that I haven't processed yet. But I will because we're going to go see it again in IMAX!!
Rest assured, I will regale you with my full-fledged opinion then!! Okay! Go see it, gang -- before everybody ruins it by telling you all about it!!
I don't really know how someone who is unfamiliar with the Dark Shadows TV show will react to this movie. It seemed like a fun story, regardless of the Dark Shadows elements, but I can't be impartial. However, if you ARE a fan of Dark Shadows -- as my stalwart cousin and I are -- then I think you are really going to appreciate this movie.
You know, it is not some sort of side-splitting laugh-a-thon. There were many moments that were funny. But mostly what this movie does is capture what was so belovedly corny and perhaps a bit campy and "self-serious" about the original version. I don't know how they did that, but they did. Michelle Pfeiffer was fucking phenomenal. It was like she walked straight out of the original cast. That weird, almost wooden, self-conscious aura that those original actors had in that show. But she also transcended it.
Eva Green was -- I don't know what. Stupefyingly watchable? God's gift to lip gloss? Evil?? All three, perhaps???
And Helena Bonham Carter is her usual, utterly insane self. She is so fucking hilarious. I don't know how she does it. You know, in the early days, she and her breasts were cast in those never-endingly straight-laced types of serious-acting roles. I absolutely never cared for her. But now that she does all these Tim Burton films, she is able to be so fucking brilliant. She chews up the fucking screen (but in the best possible way). I just love her.
I'm not sure what to say, yet, about Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins. Maybe I am still trying to process it. I don't know how he manages to get so totally inside a character and become it with so much compassion, you know? Sustain it, even though the character might be ridiculous. Obviously, there are elements to this character that are just inherently silly and ridiculous, and as usual, he nailed those. But there is this other element going on that I haven't processed yet. But I will because we're going to go see it again in IMAX!!
Rest assured, I will regale you with my full-fledged opinion then!! Okay! Go see it, gang -- before everybody ruins it by telling you all about it!!
May 10, 2012
Okay, I am at last truly jaded!
I am trying not to get too political on this blog this year only because I am so disgusted with everything about this Administration and appalled by the agendas of those who are ideologically opposed to it.
While it seems like an encouraging step for Obama to be pro-Gay Marriage (although, as usual, I'm thinking that more of us should take a stand against the political institution of legal marriages all across the board, so that gay or straight marriage becomes a non-issue in and of itself), I can only see his proclamation as a political strategy -- as a way to ensure a polarization between Democrats and Republicans in an election year -- and nothing more. And I can only view the editorials by gay Democrat pundits as a soapbox to proclaim from. Just a soapbox, you know? These are all just fucking soapboxes.
It's similar to how I feel about ObamaCare -- it does almost nothing to address the legal robbery that is healthcare in this country. The only truly imperative issue it seems to address is not allowing insurance agencies to penalize people for pre-existing health conditions. The rest of it, in my opinion, is convoluted hogwash. And now this momentous decision to formally declare that Obama is in favor of gay marriages! Nothing but an occasion for newscasters to have a bunch of "news" to spew at us. (Too bad Obama isn't also saying that by "gay" he means "happy" !! Ha ha. Okay. I know a lot of people in the LGBT community take this very seriously. But it is only because there is legal power in being legally married. And I am, of course, saying that legal marriage is kind of a bizarre somewhat draconian institution to begin with and we should be putting THAT issue under a microscope, instead.)
Beyond that, what an incredibly gorgeous morning here today, gang!! It is so crisp and cool and clear out there today. And the flowers are blooming and the birds are dinging like mad. Well, they are also SINGING like mad!! But nothing beats a dinging bird...
This is where the true power lies, gang: In these moments of silly bliss. Grab them up whenever you can.
While it seems like an encouraging step for Obama to be pro-Gay Marriage (although, as usual, I'm thinking that more of us should take a stand against the political institution of legal marriages all across the board, so that gay or straight marriage becomes a non-issue in and of itself), I can only see his proclamation as a political strategy -- as a way to ensure a polarization between Democrats and Republicans in an election year -- and nothing more. And I can only view the editorials by gay Democrat pundits as a soapbox to proclaim from. Just a soapbox, you know? These are all just fucking soapboxes.
It's similar to how I feel about ObamaCare -- it does almost nothing to address the legal robbery that is healthcare in this country. The only truly imperative issue it seems to address is not allowing insurance agencies to penalize people for pre-existing health conditions. The rest of it, in my opinion, is convoluted hogwash. And now this momentous decision to formally declare that Obama is in favor of gay marriages! Nothing but an occasion for newscasters to have a bunch of "news" to spew at us. (Too bad Obama isn't also saying that by "gay" he means "happy" !! Ha ha. Okay. I know a lot of people in the LGBT community take this very seriously. But it is only because there is legal power in being legally married. And I am, of course, saying that legal marriage is kind of a bizarre somewhat draconian institution to begin with and we should be putting THAT issue under a microscope, instead.)
Beyond that, what an incredibly gorgeous morning here today, gang!! It is so crisp and cool and clear out there today. And the flowers are blooming and the birds are dinging like mad. Well, they are also SINGING like mad!! But nothing beats a dinging bird...
This is where the true power lies, gang: In these moments of silly bliss. Grab them up whenever you can.
May 7, 2012
Now that it's still fresh in my mind...
That's kind of a weird statement, isn't it? "Now that it's still fresh" ?
Well, what I am referring to is the current season of Mad Men. Astounding. I was under a deadline through most of the current season, so I haven't been able to comment about it until now.
Super-duper loyal readers of this lofty blog (or at least readers who have been hanging out here since the summer of 2007) know I am a die-hard fan of Mad Men and have been ever since I saw the very first promos for it on AMC. But I have to say, this current season is just flooring me, gang! Wow. Even though we never get to see Betty anymore (I guess she is off in her real life, having a baby), and even though I didn't think I was going to like Megan at all, I am totally fucking LOVING it!! OMG.
And Pete Campbell -- Jesus! The guy we love to hate!! -- it turns out he's totally human. Wow. Last night's episode was unreal.
Okay, for those of you who don't watch the show, I won't bore you and will move on...
I am still working on my SomethingDark stuff for the upcoming Issue 3, then I already have some editing and stuff to do for Issue 4, but within that mix, I will begin working on my next project(s). Not sure which one it will be, but it feels kind of great to have the luxury to choose, do you know what I mean? Somewhere in the last several months, I decided that I was only going to write stuff that really excited me, that really captured my interest and my heart and my imagination. In a way, life got really wonderful because of that.
I'm not saying that I regret any part of my career that came before. But I am saying that now all I want to do is write things that I feel are an extension of my mind and/or soul in some significant way. I don't want to just write things to get a paycheck. (Um, btw, if you have any innate desire to follow me down this path, keep in mind that once you decide to no longer write "just for the paycheck" a lot of the paychecks disappear.) That said, though, it just feels really exciting.
I truly LOVE the project I just finished (the teleplay, Tell My Bones). I loved creating it, I loved being the vehicle for its emergence into "here." And those are the feelings I want to encourage in me. I no longer want to say, "Okay, I'll write this because I need the money; then I'll work on my next book" or whatever versions that idea has taken over the last decade. (The decades before that, I only wrote what made me happy because so few people were buying it anyway.)
Well, I loved writing Freak Parade and I loved writing Twilight of the Immortal, but the difference now is that I didn't realize how much I loved what I was doing because I was always stressing out about something or other at the same time. Now, I don't respond to stress in the same way and I find I am coming full circle in how I feel about the creative process. I have several projects on the many burners of the proverbial stove, and now I can say, "I want to do this project," or "I want to work on that project now" and not feel anything but happy about the prospects of creating it, whatever "it" is.
I don't feel any pressure to get stuff done and out into the world. I just want to enjoy the creative process.
Well, I guess those are my Happy Monday Morning Thoughts for this week. I'm gonna get crackin' around here. I hope you guys have a great Monday underway wherever you are. And thanks for visiting!! See ya, gang!
Well, what I am referring to is the current season of Mad Men. Astounding. I was under a deadline through most of the current season, so I haven't been able to comment about it until now.
Super-duper loyal readers of this lofty blog (or at least readers who have been hanging out here since the summer of 2007) know I am a die-hard fan of Mad Men and have been ever since I saw the very first promos for it on AMC. But I have to say, this current season is just flooring me, gang! Wow. Even though we never get to see Betty anymore (I guess she is off in her real life, having a baby), and even though I didn't think I was going to like Megan at all, I am totally fucking LOVING it!! OMG.
And Pete Campbell -- Jesus! The guy we love to hate!! -- it turns out he's totally human. Wow. Last night's episode was unreal.
Okay, for those of you who don't watch the show, I won't bore you and will move on...
I am still working on my SomethingDark stuff for the upcoming Issue 3, then I already have some editing and stuff to do for Issue 4, but within that mix, I will begin working on my next project(s). Not sure which one it will be, but it feels kind of great to have the luxury to choose, do you know what I mean? Somewhere in the last several months, I decided that I was only going to write stuff that really excited me, that really captured my interest and my heart and my imagination. In a way, life got really wonderful because of that.
I'm not saying that I regret any part of my career that came before. But I am saying that now all I want to do is write things that I feel are an extension of my mind and/or soul in some significant way. I don't want to just write things to get a paycheck. (Um, btw, if you have any innate desire to follow me down this path, keep in mind that once you decide to no longer write "just for the paycheck" a lot of the paychecks disappear.) That said, though, it just feels really exciting.
I truly LOVE the project I just finished (the teleplay, Tell My Bones). I loved creating it, I loved being the vehicle for its emergence into "here." And those are the feelings I want to encourage in me. I no longer want to say, "Okay, I'll write this because I need the money; then I'll work on my next book" or whatever versions that idea has taken over the last decade. (The decades before that, I only wrote what made me happy because so few people were buying it anyway.)
Well, I loved writing Freak Parade and I loved writing Twilight of the Immortal, but the difference now is that I didn't realize how much I loved what I was doing because I was always stressing out about something or other at the same time. Now, I don't respond to stress in the same way and I find I am coming full circle in how I feel about the creative process. I have several projects on the many burners of the proverbial stove, and now I can say, "I want to do this project," or "I want to work on that project now" and not feel anything but happy about the prospects of creating it, whatever "it" is.
I don't feel any pressure to get stuff done and out into the world. I just want to enjoy the creative process.
Well, I guess those are my Happy Monday Morning Thoughts for this week. I'm gonna get crackin' around here. I hope you guys have a great Monday underway wherever you are. And thanks for visiting!! See ya, gang!
May 6, 2012
Beautiful Moon!
[Excerpted from Marilyn's Room]
Wasn't that moon gorgeous last night, gang??? Kinda breathtaking. I took a picture of it but of course -- as loyal readers of this lofty, and oft times sporadic, blog know so well by now -- my camera is not a very good one. It didn't even come close to capturing how splendid it was. Instead, it rather made the enormous yellow moon look about as bright as the street lamp, didn't it? And for some reason, the camera made the moon look white, whereas it looked golden yellow in real life.
Luckily, you guys had your own moon to regale you with its splendor last night, so you don't really need my camera to be any better than it is. (Wow, something else to be grateful for! I don't have to go out and buy a really expensive camera!)
Okay, I don't know about you, gang, but I honest and truly had a relaxing day yesterday. I even did yoga for the first time in about a week and a half. I went out to look at all my gardens and the various little buds that are blooming, and I didn't pick a single weed. And there were many weeds that could have used picking. But I'm no dummy (anymore)! Pick just one weed and it starts the whole ball rolling. The next thing you know, it would have been 4 hours later and I would have been out there working the entire time. And Saturday would have been as good as over!
I did hose down the infamous blue plastic fake Adirondack chairs. It's not like I was on some mission to remain motionless, or anything like that. So the chairs are ready and waiting for summer. And I took the other patio furniture out and put it on my little deck. Well, the deck itself isn't little, it's just that it's not very high up off the ground. However, my patio set is now missing one chair, so I am now on a mission to get a fake-wicker rocking chair to go out on my deck. But I don't want to pay very much for it. So we'll see. My plan is to go to Garden Ridge and see what they have available. If you have a Garden Ridge anywhere near you and you've never been there yet, you must check it out! It is such a cool store!! (Ours is kind of far away. I need to take out a small bank loan in order to afford the gasoline, but once I get to Garden Ridge, the prices are worth every penny I had to procure in order to get the gas to get there!!)
Yes, yes, yes. I am a professional writer. You, too, could craft sentences like those above if you'd been lucky enough to be born "A Writer" !! (You'd also know how to use punctuation in interesting ways. In fact, I can't stress enough how awesome life is when you are born "A Writer" !!)
Which reminds me, I watched the movie Adaptation while doing yoga yesterday. What a great movie that is. Most writers already know what a great movie that is and don't need me to tell them. However, if you're a writer and you haven't seen Adaptation yet, you should see it! (Right after you come home from your trip to Garden Ridge!)
All in all, I really had a splendid day yesterday. I hope it was the same for you guys, wherever you were and whatever you wound up doing. Today I will do some editing, and also some quick errands ( that hopefully won't turn into some sort of elaborate "outing." We shall see.).
Okay, well, the plumber is here to look at my kitchen sink, which suddenly started spewing at me alarmingly this morning and then backing up like mad. So here's hoping this won't take long and then Sunday will get underway around here. Thanks for visiting, gang. I hope you enjoy yourselves whatever you do today!! See ya!!
Wasn't that moon gorgeous last night, gang??? Kinda breathtaking. I took a picture of it but of course -- as loyal readers of this lofty, and oft times sporadic, blog know so well by now -- my camera is not a very good one. It didn't even come close to capturing how splendid it was. Instead, it rather made the enormous yellow moon look about as bright as the street lamp, didn't it? And for some reason, the camera made the moon look white, whereas it looked golden yellow in real life.
Luckily, you guys had your own moon to regale you with its splendor last night, so you don't really need my camera to be any better than it is. (Wow, something else to be grateful for! I don't have to go out and buy a really expensive camera!)
Okay, I don't know about you, gang, but I honest and truly had a relaxing day yesterday. I even did yoga for the first time in about a week and a half. I went out to look at all my gardens and the various little buds that are blooming, and I didn't pick a single weed. And there were many weeds that could have used picking. But I'm no dummy (anymore)! Pick just one weed and it starts the whole ball rolling. The next thing you know, it would have been 4 hours later and I would have been out there working the entire time. And Saturday would have been as good as over!
I did hose down the infamous blue plastic fake Adirondack chairs. It's not like I was on some mission to remain motionless, or anything like that. So the chairs are ready and waiting for summer. And I took the other patio furniture out and put it on my little deck. Well, the deck itself isn't little, it's just that it's not very high up off the ground. However, my patio set is now missing one chair, so I am now on a mission to get a fake-wicker rocking chair to go out on my deck. But I don't want to pay very much for it. So we'll see. My plan is to go to Garden Ridge and see what they have available. If you have a Garden Ridge anywhere near you and you've never been there yet, you must check it out! It is such a cool store!! (Ours is kind of far away. I need to take out a small bank loan in order to afford the gasoline, but once I get to Garden Ridge, the prices are worth every penny I had to procure in order to get the gas to get there!!)
Yes, yes, yes. I am a professional writer. You, too, could craft sentences like those above if you'd been lucky enough to be born "A Writer" !! (You'd also know how to use punctuation in interesting ways. In fact, I can't stress enough how awesome life is when you are born "A Writer" !!)
Which reminds me, I watched the movie Adaptation while doing yoga yesterday. What a great movie that is. Most writers already know what a great movie that is and don't need me to tell them. However, if you're a writer and you haven't seen Adaptation yet, you should see it! (Right after you come home from your trip to Garden Ridge!)
All in all, I really had a splendid day yesterday. I hope it was the same for you guys, wherever you were and whatever you wound up doing. Today I will do some editing, and also some quick errands ( that hopefully won't turn into some sort of elaborate "outing." We shall see.).
Okay, well, the plumber is here to look at my kitchen sink, which suddenly started spewing at me alarmingly this morning and then backing up like mad. So here's hoping this won't take long and then Sunday will get underway around here. Thanks for visiting, gang. I hope you enjoy yourselves whatever you do today!! See ya!!
May 5, 2012
OMG!! You know???
Well, let's look at it this way: The Universe decided it was time for me to take an enforced break from the computer.
All I can say is, thank god I had finally completed the teleplay and turned it in or I would have lost what was left of my mind.
Sunday, while I was pretending to take the day off and just relax, but instead was back into overdrive like I always am -- puttering and cleaning and running errands and working in the garden and suddenly tearing up carpeting from the stairway while in the middle of making dinner, etc., etc. (yes, I know: what is it about any of that that even remotely resembles relaxing? ) -- I knocked over a glass of iced coffee on my desk. The iced coffee aimed straight for the underside of the laptop at breakneck speed. I then (too late!) tried to whisk the laptop out of danger but immediately dropped it on the floor.
Then the view on the monitor looked like the beginning of the old Outer Limits TV show ("Do not attempt to adjust your TV set" for all you old fogeys out there!!), and something inside me knew it simply couldn't be good. Not a good sign at all. And you know what? I was right! So off the computer went to the repair guy's and there it remained for nearly a week!
Well, I still had a really busy week, it just didn't involve being on the computer at all. And I knew you were all thinking I was some sort of charlatan -- saying I was back to blogging everyday and then disappearing for a week. But sometimes you just gotta go with whatever the Universe serves up, unbelievable as it often seems...
So, how about that SUPER MOON???? For those of you who don't know, the "supermoon" is happening because the moon is closer to the earth than it's been in 100 years plus it happens to be full. So be sure to get a look at it at sundown this weekend because it should be splendid. Then next week or the week after, I can't remember, we have a lunar eclipse. So -- quite auspicious if you are into that sort of thing. I am, actually. Might as well be, you know? If you can't regard the world as magical then I don't really know how else to get through any given day. Do you know what I mean, gang? If you simply face reality instead of creating it, whew. Not a lot of joyfulness in that, is there?
Okay!! Well. Yes, my life does indeed involve more than going to see Dark Shadows this coming Friday, but it is quite a little bright spot on the horizon, nonetheless. (Interesting achievement, isn't it? "Dark Shadows" and "bright spot"?) (You know what else occurred to me? Ever since I was little, "Dark Shadows" was conceptual: "Dark Shadows" was not a title; it was the whole concept of the TV show. And the other night, I finally thought of it as two separate words: "dark" and "shadows." And I thought to myself: What the fuck is that supposed to mean??? What are dark shadows, anyway?? It doesn't make any sense. If it's dark out, you won't see shadows. And shadows in and of themselves are always dark...)
I know, gang. There are way more important things in life that don't make sense that perhaps I should lend my lofty mind to trying to sort out, however...
All right. I really am going to try to take it kind of easy this weekend. I have some more deadlines now that I am eager to start tackling. (Who was it who called them "lifelines" instead of "deadlines"??? I don't remember but isn't that a cool concept?) And then I am going to try to just take it easy. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for visiting, folks!! Have a great one, wherever you are, and take it super easy!! See ya!!
All I can say is, thank god I had finally completed the teleplay and turned it in or I would have lost what was left of my mind.
Sunday, while I was pretending to take the day off and just relax, but instead was back into overdrive like I always am -- puttering and cleaning and running errands and working in the garden and suddenly tearing up carpeting from the stairway while in the middle of making dinner, etc., etc. (yes, I know: what is it about any of that that even remotely resembles relaxing? ) -- I knocked over a glass of iced coffee on my desk. The iced coffee aimed straight for the underside of the laptop at breakneck speed. I then (too late!) tried to whisk the laptop out of danger but immediately dropped it on the floor.
Then the view on the monitor looked like the beginning of the old Outer Limits TV show ("Do not attempt to adjust your TV set" for all you old fogeys out there!!), and something inside me knew it simply couldn't be good. Not a good sign at all. And you know what? I was right! So off the computer went to the repair guy's and there it remained for nearly a week!
Well, I still had a really busy week, it just didn't involve being on the computer at all. And I knew you were all thinking I was some sort of charlatan -- saying I was back to blogging everyday and then disappearing for a week. But sometimes you just gotta go with whatever the Universe serves up, unbelievable as it often seems...
So, how about that SUPER MOON???? For those of you who don't know, the "supermoon" is happening because the moon is closer to the earth than it's been in 100 years plus it happens to be full. So be sure to get a look at it at sundown this weekend because it should be splendid. Then next week or the week after, I can't remember, we have a lunar eclipse. So -- quite auspicious if you are into that sort of thing. I am, actually. Might as well be, you know? If you can't regard the world as magical then I don't really know how else to get through any given day. Do you know what I mean, gang? If you simply face reality instead of creating it, whew. Not a lot of joyfulness in that, is there?
Okay!! Well. Yes, my life does indeed involve more than going to see Dark Shadows this coming Friday, but it is quite a little bright spot on the horizon, nonetheless. (Interesting achievement, isn't it? "Dark Shadows" and "bright spot"?) (You know what else occurred to me? Ever since I was little, "Dark Shadows" was conceptual: "Dark Shadows" was not a title; it was the whole concept of the TV show. And the other night, I finally thought of it as two separate words: "dark" and "shadows." And I thought to myself: What the fuck is that supposed to mean??? What are dark shadows, anyway?? It doesn't make any sense. If it's dark out, you won't see shadows. And shadows in and of themselves are always dark...)
I know, gang. There are way more important things in life that don't make sense that perhaps I should lend my lofty mind to trying to sort out, however...
All right. I really am going to try to take it kind of easy this weekend. I have some more deadlines now that I am eager to start tackling. (Who was it who called them "lifelines" instead of "deadlines"??? I don't remember but isn't that a cool concept?) And then I am going to try to just take it easy. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks for visiting, folks!! Have a great one, wherever you are, and take it super easy!! See ya!!
