Well, since it’s my one day off per week, I wish that every day was Monday.

However, that said…

Wow, do I have a lot of work to do today. I’m trying to get a tiny bit of household chores done (bare minimum), because the script for the TV pilot is first and foremost on my desk. (Is that even, like, an actual sentence?)

When I awoke at 5:42AM — yes! I slept in!! — I found no less than 8 new files from Peitor in my inbox. So I need to read over all that before he and I have our Monday-marathon video chat on WhatsApp. Because, one week from today, the first draft of this script needs to be finished. And we still have 29 pages to go.

[And this is what’s NOT happening: I am not taking the laptop to NYC with me. I am not going there to work, but to just enjoy myself and have a good time. And I leave for NYC one week from tomorrow.]

So anyway.

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The news.

You know, even though so much incredibly great stuff is happening as we approach the official Inauguration Day; for me, all of it is overshadowed by the horrors of LA. Even though I had really come to hate Los Angeles and everything it stood for, everything it had become, and I never intended to go back there, ever. I still can’t bare the sight of what has been unleashed there.

And I don’t for a minute believe it was “climate change” and simply “high winds”. I believe that in various ways, from start to finish, this was a manmade atrocity. Just like Lahaina was, in Maui.

And it just gets so hard for me to focus on good things when I know that so many innocent people and animals are suffering in the fallout of that.

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Anyway.

Here are some items that were of interest. And then I’m gonna have to scoot.

Dan Bongino – Communist LA Mayor Stunned As Wildfires Rage (Ep. 2397) – 01/09/2025 (1 hr):

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Charlie is actually on this one —

CHARLIE WARD DAILY NEWS WITH CHARLIE WARD & PAUL BROOKER 13TH JANUARY 2025 (13 mins):

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Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – Well This Looks INTERESTING! (1 hr):

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Just FYI: I don’t believe in feminism, either. You can be a strong woman, and be independent, too, and not be a feminist.

Sanity4Sweden – Women who hate Feminism? Brussels stopped the Romanian Election (7 mins):

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Nigel Watson (Finland/UK) – THE PARABLE OF THE WINESKINS (15 mins):

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Ross K. Nichols – Israel and the Last Days (1 hr):

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That is it for now. I gotta check on the laundry and then get started on the script notes.

Enjoy your Monday, gang, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Driving-home music from last night!

I love this song!! Rod Stewart, 1991, “Rhythm of My Heart.” From his album, Vagabond Heart.

You really gotta turn up the volume on this one, gang. It sounds so great — when it’s cranked up and you’re driving alone in the dark at 85 MPH, and the nearly-full moon is following you.

Oh, and a happy belated 80th birthday to Rod-the-Mod. Okay. Enjoy!