Reading: The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue by Robert Klein
Music: John Hartford
TV/Movie: Airplane II: The Sequel
Link o' the Day: WilliamShatner.com

I have such a great idea for such a lousy story--about unspeakable acts inspired by unspeakable events. It'd be a hard sell, but I may just write it anyway. And keep it short. All I need is an ending that's a real ending and not a useless Existentialist meditation on Absurdity.

Damn you, Kurt Vonnegut. You did this to me!

Or maybe I just need more sleep.

No rest for the wicked! More work to do today. I just got some pieces from a new client for a book if plays that's due in December.

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Yesterday on this webjournal I put forth the idea of using clips of Charles Nelson Reilly in movies that now need to depict a near-future setting, but can no longer use a black president to do so. Some wonder why Reilly. There have been gay presidents before--maybe not out-of-the-closet-we-know-for-sure but there are arguments (if you're into that kind of thing). It doesn't really matter, tho. The reason for putting Charle Nelson Reilly up there to represent near-future presidencies is two-fold:

He's dead, so there's no chance of him becoming president now or in the future

He'd be an openly gay president, which hasn't been done before, and it's highly unlikely that any future gay president would be nearly as campy

My only other choice would have to be Hervé Villechaize. Yes, he was foreign-born, but if we allow foreign-born presidents who are also dead, we can save ourselves from the problem of a Terminator presidency.

This is the sort of stuff I think about after three extra-large coffees.

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Another short entry today as there's work to be done. Today's link goes to WilliamShatner.com because c'mon, can anyone get too much of this guy? He's a pop-culture giant.

And that's that.

Cheers!