Friday 6/28/24
More work yesterday on "Dead Thomas" for There Is No Doubt: Story Girls. You can't tell how much time has passed between the events of the story and when the narrator Bonita is telling it. That's deliberate. Everything is deliberate. Could be not that long after or decades. Probably not decades. Probably closer to not that long after. That's our feeling, I think. Which itself is going to say something about this character. What she's learned, how it was learned and how readily she could learn it, how she changed. There aren't cell phones in the story. We don't know if people have them, that is. They don't come up.
Did three circuits yesterday in the Monument, walked six miles, did 100 push-ups. I wish I had a key to the Monument and could come and go when I pleased and run my stairs when no one else was in there.
Wearing a Lake Bluff softball T-shirt that my sister sent me. My seven-year-old niece Lilah plays, so I'm showing support from afar. Pink lettering. I like pink, actually.
I like when the Grateful Dead would come out and start a show with "Dark Star." Like, hey, we're going to begin by hitting you with this. People were there to listen and have an experience, which certainly helped. They didn't have a phone they could play with and photos of themselves to take for social media.
I can't take someone seriously who doesn't spell Edgar Allan Poe's name correctly. There are people who have podcasts comprised of them reading horror stories and they will spell Poe's name wrong. It's the same with Alastair Sim. I belong to a Facebook group about movie adaptations of A Christmas Carol and another all about the 1951 version with Alastair Sim, and most people in these groups will spell his name incorrectly. "I love Alistair Sim so much!!!!" Then have some respect and spell his name correctly. This is the kind of thing I think of as basic and obvious and it ought to go without saying, which if you do say makes people in today's world where there are no standards think you're awful and mean and judgmental, etc.
