My 10-year-old self thought it was a masterpiece, but I'd be afraid to watch it now.

That man was EVERYwhere!

My classmates actually mocked me when it was canceled because I had made such a big deal about it.

But in this age of shows like "Ghosts," and "The Good Place," I think a single-camera visual-effects-studded rebooted could work!

It also starred Mary Gross, Christina Pickles, and a very young Leslie Jordan as a nosy mailman. In 5th grade, I saw the TV Guide and decided this show would be my personality, and I would be there to watch it from the beginning. They made 10 episodes and ran 5.

"The People Next Door," a Wes Craven created sitcom about a cartoonist whose imagination came to life, which unfortunately only ran 10 episodes, and more unfortunately starred Jeffrey Jones.

At Fustercluck, I was just introducing my mutual aid group to take donations, but it was a fun minute or two. I went to a queer open mic last week and did so-so. It'll just take some work.

Me on stage at a comedy show. Bales of hay flank the stage, and a hanging sign behind me reads "Fustercluck." I'm wearing jeans and a black t-shirt with the Sesame Street "News Flash" logo.

Another shot from the same night, but from a different angle. I'm gesturing with an arm held out, revealing my rainbow tattoo.

Uh-oh, they took to the stage.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Surprised-looking guy from the "That's a penis!" meme.

"That's for a penis!"

Do you have a good couple's therapist? 🙏

She told lots of interesting stories, maybe about half of which were true as far as I could figure.

“I guess not everyone can be a superstar like Freddie.”

“He’s a superstar like Tim Curry, though.”

“So sad.”

“Tim Curry? THE Tim Curry, Barbra?”

And she wandered off shaking her head.

Anyway, Happy 80th Birthday to THE Tim Curry.

“Rocky Horror Picture Show? The smash cult hit? The role he made iconic in his early 20s?”

“Yah,” (German accent, remember) “he never got the music career he dreamed of.”

“Tim Curry? The famous Tim Curry?”

“He only ever did movies and television.”

“Barbra, he’s like super famous. An icon.” >>

“He wanted to be a rock star like Freddie, but it just didn’t work out for him.”

“I don’t think that’s true, Barbra.”

“He wanted to sing and dance, but all he got was that movie.” >>

One day, the topic of Tim Curry came up (maybe I was watching Clue?), and the Frau tsk-tsked and shook her head and said, “Poor Tim.”

“Yeah,” I said. “The stroke really hit him hard, but at least he’s still with us.”

“And he never got the fame he wanted,” she said.

“He never what?” I said. >>

A framed snapshot shows Freddie Mercury with his arm around a stylish blonde woman. A framed headshot of the same woman, now in middle age, stands beside it. On the desk around the pictures sit pieces of pink salt crystals, a cobalt blue vase, and a conch shell.

Anyway, she was buddies with Freddie Mercury back in the day because her ex-husband Roy was their producer (she still handled some of their financials, like the royalties from the Bohemian Rhapsody movie). >>

Omg, I nearly forgot this story! Before I moved to KTown, I sublet a room in an old lady’s house (my followers from the Twitter days will remember her as “the Frau” because she was German and still carried her accent). >>

I'm shouting, I'm shouting, I'm shouting!!

Aha, so that's what Courtney Cox watched before she got styled for Scream 3!

She had a kidney stone (or maybe gall stone), and needed a procedure for it, so Gwen came in to waaaaaaarsh her vagina.

Cozy view of the TV from my bed, with my stocking feet in the foreground. Tim Curry as Wadsworth from Clue appears on the TV.

Happy 80th, Tim Curry!

"Oh wow, I was an anxious wreck a couple months ago and wanted to throw this whole project into the fire. Good for me."

Bonus is I have a rough log of all my thoughts, good and bad or otherwise, as I was working on the project, to read back through and see how it developed.

It helps me get over the fear of the blank page, and gets my mind and fingers moving and warmed up, and soon I'm ready to get started for real.

I got the idea from the "Happier In Hollywood" podcast years ago, and I've been using it ever since.

For every project I work on, I have a writing diary that's just a separate blank document. When it's time to sit and write, I type the day and date up top and just type out whatever's on my mind or talk out whatever challenges I'm facing on this project. >>

It's very murky how to disable this so I'll just provide a scorched-earth approach:

1. Disable Gemini Apps Activity: myactivity.google.com/product/gemini
2. Disable ALL activities: myactivity.google.com/activitycont...
3. Disable "Activity-based personalisation": photos.google.com/settings

Too soon.

I gasped

gwen YouTube video by Violently Ignored

It's in a different special. She tells it a lot, and there are various versions, and they're all fucking hilarious. youtu.be/T5BR-dEi_ZI?...

Margaret's "Gwen" story was the first time I literally fell out of my chair laughing.