4:20

[Drunk Monk]

Need to be up in an hour. Is it worth it to try to get back to sleep? Meh.

[Drunk Monk]

Maybe I’m done. Maybe not. But oh, look at the time.

[Drunk Monk]

I’ve really slept poorly for my entire stay in El Segundo. No idea why. The room is quiet and both beds are fine. The pillows might not have been right because my neck and upper back have been knotted, but that might just be stress. I’ve been waking with a dry cough - LA air? I’m so close to the sea. 

Oh well. I’ll be home soon.

[Drunk Monk]

Not quite home yet. Menlo. The ol’ ‘hood where Stacy’s office used to be. It’s warmer here now than it was in LA.

[Drunk Monk]

Dammit 
Need sleep

[Greg]

Two thoughts come to mind:

Rest is for the weak,

No rest for the wicked

Your choice.

[Drunk Monk]

3:20? Something is horribly wrong...

[cranefly]

Just changed my regimen, am now getting up 1 hour earlier. Maybe I dragged you along somehow?

[Drunk Monk]

acid reflux.  i think it was that anchor porter... 

[Greg]

Woke up at 3am.

First thought was about Melbourne.

Still pissy.

[Drunk Monk]

Still pissy.

Can't say that I blame ya.  Such BS is incomprehensible.  My guess is that the Melbourne FF is actually just three dudes named 'Bruce' who have a run-down ramshackle old movie house and are promoting their festival as a Hail Mary play to keep their theater from being condemned.

[cranefly]

Yeah, I've been thinking that this one would hurt for some time.  It would certainly be devastating to me.  The thing is, it's in the festival's best interests to ensure that their choices get shown.  So they should make damned certain that a silence to their "accepted" checkmark actually means no.

I really get the feeling that the person(s) responsible are taking a defensive stance, not wanting to admit they made a mistake, that they did a piss-poor job.  Sure, they can point to the minimum requirements of reporting results to withoutabox, and they can dance like some damned fool on the tip of his self-righteousness clown nose.  But they ought to know they're dealing with artist types, who, in my experience, are sometimes very busy, juggling lots of stuff, and they're not robot CEOs conducting mundane business.

I'm boycotting everything that they show at Melbourne this year.  I may not be as powerful as a butterfly in the Cretaceous whose life or death causes a pebble to displace by a centimeter over six million years, but I do have a modicum of influence, and I intend to wield it like a pony who belongs to no one!

[Drunk Monk]

This morning
Oh the irony

[Greg]

It's 6/21 today.

[Drunk Monk]

It's 6/21 today.

Happy Solstice!