Weekend update
It’s Labor Day weekend — and unfortunately, I’m here at my office laboring. It’s not what I planned on, but in the cosmic scheme of things (or at least the scheme of my life for probably the next year), it’s important. So my plan of “write, play, shop” is temporarily on hold.
Oh, I did shop, though. I just bought an online registration to traffic school to void a ticket I got in central California when I was pulled over because my car didn’t have a front license plate on it. Why didn’t I have a front license plate? Because BMWs don’t come with front license plate brackets or holes. You have to take the car to the dealer to get them drilled in. Which seems like an oversight. Now I have a mounted front license plate — and eight hours of online traffic school.
And tonight I am doing some playing — of poker. My wife and I are having a group of what she calls “marks” over to play Texas Hold ‘Em.
Tomorrow I hope to actually be writing my play. And playing “Oblivion” on the xBox; my character has sat idle for nine months and I’m starting to worry that the little towns and villages are getting overrun by demons unleashed from the other side.
Two last quick notes:
On Thursday night my friends Mark and Richard and I saw a movie that I thoroughly enjoyed, “The Last Exorcism.” It’s done in that cinema verite / documentary style that we’d all better become more accustomed to (because in the age of User Generated Content, and interactive content, that’s the look and feel that Millennials will come to expect because everything must, somehow, adopt features of Facebook and/or YouTube). It’s cleverly written, acted, and directed; the lead reminded me very much of my good friend and favored actor Keith Sellon-Wright ten or 15 years ago, who, like this actor, is somehow able to be sincere and phony simultaneously; and the deceptively simple plot reveals itself, in retrospect, to be devilishly well contrived. And, somehow, it’s both scary and funny. I highly recommend it.
Coming out soon: a movie somebody gave his right arm to see.
September 4th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
My sister-in-law was stopped by a NY State Trooper a few months ago and did a traffic school program. It got her a good discount on her car insurance, more than what the ticket was and avoided point on her license.
September 5th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Don’t really think I called our poker guests “marks”, especially given my track record of winning (not).
September 7th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Maybe Lee meant “he”. As I recall, he was the shark.