Complaining with Kay, Episode 22.5, Literary Supplement: Soldier.

In this episode:
Soldier
“I lied about my wedding ring…”
Two-page story
Sax solo
Music:
“Egyptian Song” (Rupert Davies, arr. and performed by Benjamin Mueller-Heaslip
My dorky piano rendition of “Dream a little dream of me”
Link.

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The stuff of nightmares: Don’t write a play wherein you have to pretend to be a cat

Last night I had an awful nightmare.  I dreamt that I was putting on some kind of opera/play thing; I had just written it a few days before, the composer had set it in a hurry, and everything was ready to go.  There was a big audience, mostly composed of people I went to school [...]

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I’ll go on

Folks, it’s been a weird week.  It’s been a weird month.  Hell, it’s been a weird life.  
I think a big problem with my “get a clue” project is that I am, at heart, an idealist.  I keep expecting that once I turn another corner, everything will be great.  I get excited and I make [...]

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Dream city

I had a dream last night (or this morning) that I was shopping for lingerie with my sister.  I know, how much more boring can you get?  One night it’s a demon baby, another night it’s me getting fired from an opera for looking too masculine…and then it’s me at the Bay, buying a sports [...]

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Another happy day

I had a dream last night that I was offered a part in an opera that paid $50,000 (!).  Then I got fired at the first rehearsal for looking too masculine (the part had some kind of cross-dressing angle) and I hung around, hoping my replacement would literally break her legs and they’d have to [...]

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Storm rising: A horror story

* NOTE: This literally IS a horror story, based on a dream I had last night.  NO horror story is complete without a family secret and some bad weather.*
 
 
Storm rising
“It won’t be long,” Mrs. May said, looking up from the countertop.
The window in front of her looked out onto the broad bay, and over her [...]

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This city gets me down

Man, it’s been a downer of a week so far in Toronto.  First there’s a massive propane explosion, the funeral for a poor little girl who was beaten to death by her guardians, and some unfortunate dude got stabbed THROUGH THE WINDOW OF HIS CAR just a few hours ago.  And it’s only Tuesday!
But hey, [...]

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I think I’ll just tag everything with “X Files” from now on

Well, my living-in-the-X-Files-save-me,-David-Duchovny dream has had the most pageviews of anything so far…I think I’ll just tag everything “X Files” from now on, it seems to be a popular tag.
Not that I’ve seen the movie or anything.  Or plan to.  I prefer my rosy memories of the early-mid nineties intact, thank you very much.

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Sunday morning: more blogging from the EEE

It’s Sunday morning and I haven’t even made it to the couch (still in bed).  I went to a party last night and…well, you know.  I drank about seven beers over five hours, which is a pretty pleasant pace – you feel lit up but not falling over – and talked to some cool people [...]

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