Amazing

Picked up the new CD by Seal titled System. It's very cool. I think it is one of his best albums, very dance groovy and almost Bowieish (Is that even a word? It is now!). When I listen to the song Loaded, I can easily hear David Bowie sing the same lines with almost the same phrasing. No wonder one of the songs has a Thin White Duke Remix version. Loaded, Amazing and Wedding Day are the stand-out tracks but every song is great.
Thank you Mr. Seal.

In writing news...everything has kind of been put on hold until the baby arrives. Sometime within the next two weeks baby Sabriel will be born.
Simply amazing!

What's with all the bees?

I just don't get them. Are they supposed to be funny with those stripes? They remind me of school buses. Not funny.

I kid, of course. I saw Bee Movie over the weekend and loved it. The audience I was with seemed to agree. They clapped at the climax of the movie. It seems that Jerry Seinfeld can do no wrong. I heard that he is now going back on the road to work the stand-up circuit. I would love to see him. The only thing holding me back is that most comics' acts are filled with cursing live. I don't see how foul language makes a joke funnier, but I guess I'm old fashioned. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Seinfeld show even though it was crass at times, for the most part it was bringing the funny in a way that even my mom would laugh at. There were no f-bombs on TV. Maybe with the movie being out Seinfeld will keep his act clean. Maybe his act is pretty clean anyway. If any of you out there have seen his act, drop me a line about it in the Comments.

Movies that bring the funny (clean funny): Anything with Abbott and Costello, A Night at the Opera, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Princess and the Pirate, The Court Jester, and To Be or Not To Be...to name a few.

They did the monster mash.

Halloween has come and gone. For those of you keeping score...I was Edward Scissorhands this year, carved a pumpkin at home to look like The Ghoul, designed and helped create a haunted house with creaky stairs graveyard and giant spider that small Lego trick-or-treaters occupied pumpkin for a contest at work, didn't win (we were robbed I tell you), and watched Sleepy Hollow in the dark.

My wife and I gathered all the Halloween decorations and stuffed them back in their box until next year. Oh, well. In a few weeks the Christmas stuff will come out and that will be fun, right?I really do enjoy Christmas...but do you have to start playing Christmas music nonstop on the radio all ready? What is this world coming to when I can hear The Christmas Song on the day after Halloween?! AAAGGHHH!

Um...I'm OK, really. Still no word from One Nexus Studios on a Pass or a Fail for The Ghoul. I am going to continue where I left off on my all ages novel The Fabric of Night, and put The Ghoul on the back burner. Don't worry. If I know the Ghoul, and I should considering I created him, he'll be back before you know it.

I'm going to shoot for 100 finished pages for the novel before the new year. It's a small goal but considering any week now my wife will have the baby, I think it's a realistic goal.

I leave you with this echo: I was working in the lab late last night...