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[likethebeer]

I'm sitting at the computer while mda talks to someone on the phone outside. I can only guess it's his parents. This leads to the usual fear--why are they calling? These are the people, after all, who called 5 years ago, left a message to call, ending the message with "everything's just fine." When he called, he was told that his dad had bone marrow cancer (he's so far in remission, although you don't really recover from bone marrow cancer). Same thing last year. Called twice, asked that he call, and told mda that 1 of his dad's kidneys was coming out. Edit: They're fine, they just wanted to check in. They were power washing their deck.

Right now, aside from the honking horn (and a wheezing kitty), I'm listening to Jack Benny. Jack Benny is always such an interesting show to me. Every show about is preparing for a show. Benny was the first person whom I realized did not match his public persona. I remember being completely confused when told that he wasn't as cheap as he always made out. That this was simply a joke that they always played. Since Jack Benny is supposed to be Jack Benny, I could not understand why he would pretend to be something he was not.

1 of our cats is strangely sick, wheezy and coughing in just a pathetic display. It doesn't look like a cold, and it's been slowly getting worse for about 2 weeks. Today he's been sitting with his mouth open most of the time, breathing or more often, snorting. We're hoping he just has a sinus infection or something. I think mda's going to try to get him into the vet's tomorrow.

I've worked on the book a little, but just to remove things. It needs to be printed out so I can get a sense of it. Removing things, frankly, is just fine. It usually makes things better. I had an idea that I need to pick actual incidents and tell the story of them along w/my explanation of this place. I have, so far, removed my analysis of the house. It's bogging me down. Incredible--I've been there for this long and I can't talk about it. Although I suppose that's not completely true. I've actually been seeking to reiterate what I say on tour. The problem is that I've been doing this so long, I can barely discern anymore the things that I saw that come from me, or from other people, except in extraordinary circumstances. I've tried writing down a few things, events, that I remember occurring.

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worked on the book a little

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

are you writing it as a narrative?, sounds like quite the project,..:)

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I was urged to write a book about the tour world sort of in vein of Kitchen Confidential. I had already started something. Now I've got to figure out where to go next. It's getting a little messy. It's sort of unraveling, and I don't like that.

It's sort of unraveling

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

early on,before i had a computer(gaaa! does that make me sound old!) i tried my hand at writing, and it was a lot of work and very discouraging, it's nice to be able to put things down all together and not have to worry about rewriting the whole thing because this paragraph at the end, would be better at the beginning,.. and to be able to cut things out (and save them elsewhere ) to see if it helps or hurts, wonderful!,. cut/n/paste is a writers dream,.. and i won't even mention spell check,..:)

Re: It's sort of unraveling

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

There's a difference to writing on paper vs. computer, no doubt. A sense of feeling. I had a whole series of private symbols for how to move 1 thing one place, to insert a sentence here and there. I literally could not write when I first began working on a computer.

I cannot imagine the amount of scribbles this would be if I wrote it by hand.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

I always think I love Jack Benny, but maybe that's unfair since I've only heard two of his shows and watched his best movie a zillion times. I guess he does talk about the show a lot. There's more comic potential in being cheap than in being a loveable, generous fellow, I guess.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I've never seen his movies. And apparently he was a pretty good violinist. I do like him, even though I often don't think I like him as much as I do.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

To Be Or Not To Be. . .that's the best one. I couldn't think of the name of it yesterday.

It's neat how he's the star, and yet is rarely the one telling the jokes. He just says "hmmm" a lot, and it's funny.

love Jack Benny

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

he was a master, he mixed the sublime with the slapstick, he could be very dry while spilling something on himself,.. very multilayered humor,...