Okay! Back to Work!

But what a great couple of days off it’s been around here, gang.

More great feedback yesterday on our pilot script, this time from a European producer. (If I may quote just one line of his email: “I absolutely loved it.”)

AND — great feedback from Wayne! He liked this version better than the first draft he’d read.

Yes, Peitor asked me to give Wayne a copy of the revised script, so I did. He was really busy but when he finally got a chance to read it yesterday morning, he texted back his various thoughts and all of them were good! So, yay!

I also sent Wayne a photo of my target practice from yesterday at the shooting range.

Wayne texted back last evening that someone owed him some money and when he showed the guy my target practice from the shooting range, the guy said that he’d pay up, pronto — “Thanks, Marilyn.”

I found that so funny.

Anyway!

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The weather report for Columbus on Friday — and now, also on Saturday! — continues to be absolutely lousy, gang.

Obviously, it doesn’t matter what the weather is outside while the Bad Seeds are inside onstage, but I really hate driving to (and from ) Columbus, just in general, but I also really hate driving anywhere in the rain.

Here’s hoping that just being with Kara will be enough fun to make the rain and cold temperatures unnoticeable. But I still think it sucks…

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Yesterday evening, I was in the kitchen getting dinner ready, chatting with all the crazy cats who follow, quite exuberantly, every move I make in every room I’m in, when one of the little girls from next door was suddenly on my kitchen porch, tapping on my screen door!

A visitor!! I never have visitors!!

Not only a visitor, but she had a little fistful of “flowers” — mostly bedraggled dandelions, but there was a pretty iris in the bouquet, and a couple of wilting parrot-tulips.

She wanted to know if I would buy the bouquet!

ME: “How much do you want?”

SHE: “$5. I want to buy my mom a cake. But it’s a secret.”

She was so cute. She’s only about 8 years old and she was clearly very proud of her fistful of bedraggled little flowers…

And it’s been a REALLY long time since anyone brought me flowers (although I didn’t ever have to pay for them in the past, but still, beggars can’t be choosers).

And since, for some long-forgotten reason, I knew I had a stack of $5 bills stored up in my room….

So I came back and gave her TWO 5-dollar bills and she was absolutely thrilled. It was so fucking cute!!

And, yes, I put the flowers in a vase full of water, dead dandelions and all.

And, NO — I didn’t do it as a sort of pre-planned bribe to get her to persuade her mom to adopt a kitten come June….

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Okay!!

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Chicago last night and it looks like it was just off the charts, gang (even though, rumor has it, that Nick Cave called it Detroit…):