It's 11:54PM so I'm getting the writing done before the end of the day, technically. I just got home from a very long day at my studio, working. I was making some serious headway on a painting and I had to leave because I was getting tired and I didn't want to ruin the work that I managed to get done this evening and afternoon. I got home in a record 27 minutes, door to door, because both of my subway trains came into the stations exactly as I got to them. So, 27 minutes is the fastest I can make it to or from work.I got home and had some cereal. The perfect (and delicious) lazy food when you're tired. I'm watching Nightline right now on ABC. It's just not the same show ever since Ted Koppel left. It's now just another, crappy news magazine instead of actual REAL news with good interviews. Nightline is such a piece of crap now. It's a bummer. The only real news that is still on television is the nightly news hour on PBS....everything else is such junk.
A friend of mine gave me a 5 cd box set of this years, "Shark Week" on the Discovery channel. I don't have cable so I haven't seen any of these and I love watching anything about sharks, like most people. I can't open it now and start watching it because I'll stay up all night and watch every one of the cd's, I know I will. So I'll just hang on to it and wait until I can watch them this weekend.
I haven't found the time to write about the camping trip we went on this past week. Basically
we drove from Chicago to upper Michigan and went camping on South Manitou Island, which is a small island in Lake Michigan. You take a ferry there that takes an hour and a half. It's tent camping where you have to bring everything that you need, there are no cars, no stores, nothing. The island has a small village with abandoned buildings, an old, one room schoolhouse that was last used in 1922 and a lighthouse. There are remnants of a few shipwrecks and large, tall and vast sand dunes on half of the island. There is a cemetery towards the middle of the island between old farming fields. It's a small graveyard that features a small white cross with just these words, "Human skeleton found on dunes, 1933". I'll paste a few photos below from the trip. I wonder who is buried in that grave. Just another anonymous person, just another death.Last night there was some sort of 'award show' on TV called, "The Diamond Award", something I've never heard of before, and this award was presented to Michael Jackson. It featured singers and dancers making an hour long tribute to Jackson and in particular his "Thriller" record for still being the highest selling record of all time. At the end of the show, the president of "The Guinness Book of World Records" gave him an award for, "being the most famous person in the world".....can you imagine? It's the funniest and silliest notion ever. I'm not saying I don't agree though, I can't think of anyone else who could be labeled, 'the most famous person on the planet'....I really can't. I miss Michael Jackson. I wonder if he'll make any more music. I miss Liza Minelli too, and the "Roseanne" show, and Steve Perry from Journey, and Boy George and Adam Ant and Pee Wee Herman,
Faye Dunaway, Shelley Winters, Phil Harman, Ted Knight, Eric Estrada, 
Robby Benson, The
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Match Game and Howard Stern (who's buying sattelite radio?). I guess just because some artists are still alive, it doesn't mean they have to keep making work...but you wonder why they don't.Speaking of Pee Wee, Paul Reubens was just on Jimmy Kimmel and he was so funny. I think he should be in more movies. Pee Wee was a great character, but he's also funny just as himself. He had a great sense of humor. Anyway, I'm rambling and distracted by late night TV and I'm tired and not able to write anything cohesive. Oh but before I go, I received a nice comment on yesterday's blog from someone I don't know named, Mel. Thanks Mel.
