4.27.2011

150 WORD STORY: One Where the Old Janitor Speaks to the Young Janitor on the Nature of Love


Teddy was ornery.  
"Spit it out." William said.
"This job's not enough money."
"This job's nothing to be ashamed of."
"Stacey says it is."
"I had a wife like yours.  Not a solid chick."
"What happened?"
"I got a new one."
"Nice."
"You'll learn.  A woman isn't there for your self-esteem; esteem's the currency you trade them for time.  I like smelling shampoo in their hair.  You go out, knock around for purpose, enough to meet with one, and here; here's what I got, count the coins -- can I hold your hand?  Don't cry to the wrong one, Why not me?: the right ones trade shampoo for dirt on your wrists.
"I'm supposed to find one who likes janitors?"
"There's a lane for you, Ted.  A good one anchors your heart so you don't go to work with butterflies."
"Will."
"Yes?" 
"I gave my notice."

4.26.2011

THE ROAD: How to Order a Haircut

I told the young barber I wanted a fade, but not some metro slick fade that includes a free eyebrow wax; no, I told him, "Give me  a fade that looks like they just plucked me out of Kansas to go kill Krauts; I want a fade that looks good with a forty-five not a glock.  I want the kind of fade that orders t-bone not tuna; the kind of hard luck fade that could be seen in a Dodge on a back road on a summer night in 1965 while Eve of Destruction plays on the radio.  The kind of fade they gave Elvis before shipping him to Germany.  The kind of fade that drinks bottles of Pepsi while polishing a shotgun.  A fade that keeps a couple Heath bars in the glove compartment.  The kind of fade that takes three minutes to buzz, and only that long because you want to be paid.  A Hank Williams Sr. fade.  A 1950's Republican fade.  A railroad worker fade.  A fade that wants a moustache as accompaniment.  A fade that thinks porno theaters are an exceptable date like Travis Bickle.  A fade that only swims in rivers.  A fade that eats onions.  A fade that feels the History Channel doesn't have enough shows about mining.  A fade that thinks kids is womens' business."


4.24.2011

MLH PLAYLIST: Late Night Torch Songs


1 The Golden Age -- Beck     
                                 2 The Lengths -- Black Keys
     3 Licking Stick -- Desmond Dekker
                             4 Dead Flowers -- Rolling Stones
   5 Give Me Time -- Dusty Springfield
              6 Wearin' That Loved On Look -- Elvis Presley                         7 Cheek To Cheek -- Fred Astaire
                 8 Why Can't He Be You -- Patsy Cline      
                                        9 Pink Cashmere -- Prince
      10 Cyprus Avenue -- Van Morrison
                                          11 Carmelita -- Warren Zevon

4.20.2011

STORY: The Three Weyard Sisters (Completed)



.. Of  those strange men come to the Octagon house, the boy, the old Spaniard, and the sisters --
A pass at completing this story -- (if you've read the earlier segment, it resumes on page 7); click on the page below to view the pdf...

4.18.2011

LATE STORY: Five Six Word Stories

He acted himself when he believed.
She readied words.   End came quiet.
A man made paper -- lost heart.
Too late.  She'd gone.  And lied.
The river took him.  He agreed.

4.13.2011

SCRIPT: Dead Dog (on Scribd in PDF)

I'm trying out Scribd as a way to post script work in format how I'd like it to be read -- here's a repost of Dead Dog segment One -- seeing how it works

Here's the Pitch of this script I posted in March  --

And here's the Scribd upload in pdf:

Dead Dog

4.12.2011

REPOST: MLH: Great Novel as TV Masterpiece

h.ny. WORK: MLH: Great Novel as TV Masterpiece: "-- What is MLH? Everything. -- I'm sure everyone has at one time in their life said to themselves: Wouldn't it be great if someon..."

STORY: Lake Geneva (full)

(This is the story in full and revised)


The old man's head looked like an abandoned hornet nest rotting in the cranny of a barn. He was grey and papery as if his skin might flake and crumble like fish overcooked in a skillet. He was given to the porch in the mornings where from his wheelchair he played sentinel over the farmlands, until the house staff, judging the zenith of that day's heat, dispatched, and pushed him back inside the house to the road-facing windows, where he would resume the watch, looking there against the blaze like an elder planet waiting on a dying sun.

HOTEL REVIEW: Cape Cod Super 8



4.09.2011

MOVIE PITCH: an ELVIS movie?



-- I've thought about an Elvis movie since I was a kid.  Here's the only viable half an idea I've come up with:

4.07.2011

GAME: First Half/ Second Half

The best damn movie game since the last one!! All you'll need is you and IMDB!!!!

4.03.2011

STORY: Lake Geneva pt. 2 of 2

     They took dinner in the kitchen.  Old Ross has his Frenchman cook, and the girls on duty to audience his stories, to pour wine, the two men, Old Ross and Witten, taking dinner huddled around a small table in the kitchen rather than the dining room.

4.01.2011

STORY: Lake Geneva pt.1 of 2

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     The old man's head looked like an abandoned hornet nest rotting in the cranny of a barn.  He was grey and papery as if his skin might flake and crumble like fish overcooked in a skillet.