I dreamed last night of pitching an indie movie to Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. The movie was called "10 Cigars" - probably got the idea from that indie flick about coffee and cigarettes Jeremy made me watch? Gods, that was years ago. Brain! Brain, you are strange, brain ( Read more... )

All right. I've got lists of things to do running through my head, but they seem to be getting shorter. That probably means I am forgetting things. Or didn't put something important on the list in the first place ( Read more... )

Why I have The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo running through my head this morning, I have no idea. It's a story from my childhood, beautifully and bizarrely illustrated.

I have a clear memory of my father reading it to us in the first house I ever lived in, and a clearer memory that it was my little brother Aidan's favorite. Not sure if he ( Read more... )

Patty Templeton gets to go see Slim Cessna's Auto Club, and I am jealous. Jealous of her, or jealous of the band that gets her in the audience? WHO CAN SAY ( Read more... )

I made my first pesto ever, out of basil from our community garden. We have amethyst basil and green basil. So I call my pesto amethyst-and-emerald pesto. It is better than eating jewels ( Read more... )

The problem with a pegasus pinwheel is that the wheel is the wings, right? Except, unlike wings, the wheel goes ALL THE WAY AROUND!

And the whole point of a pegasus is that you should be able to get on its back and ride it around and slay chimeras and stuff. But you can't do that if there's a great big RAINBOW WING WHEEL where your awesome PEGASUS ( Read more... )

This is what I woke up thinking this morning...

No, maybe I should back up a bit. "Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up."

I've had the weirdest week of rolly-coastering eeeeemo(shuns) (it doesn't even DESERVE to be spelled right, s'what I'm thinking) and that's neither here nor there, that's just regular life and livin' it, but here ( Read more... )

My subject line is what you get if you're one of the few, privileged folks in the world to have Patty Templeton's telephone number and you happen to call her, and she doesn't happen to be available. Her answering machine says just that, "This is Patty," and if you know her, you know what that means.

If you DON'T know her, or what PATTY TEMPLETON ( Read more... )

There comes a time (every month) when I have to watch Persuasion again. Okay, not every month. Maybe once every few months. Or, if I go for longer, then sometimes I have to see it several times in one week. Or maybe that was just a phase, that one year(s). Maybe this time I'll only see it once (tonight) and then won't need to see it again for AGES ( Read more... )

well, hell. it was all just fine all day long, okay so maybe i cried at the merwin poem this morning and maybe later at the very end of the george harrison documentary, living in the material world, i cried again, but mostly that was just a few tears, you know, because art is art and music is music and icons are icons and all things being equal, i ( Read more... )