Politically, this week sucked. The Big Ugly Bill is bad in so many awful ways. Writing, however, went great, partly because I had no appointments to go to, no errands to run. And the holiday — this is one of the ones I take off — was on a Friday so it cut into blogging time rather than other writing.
I rewatched the John Barrymore 1920 adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, the Spencer Tracy 1941 version and the Fredric March 1932 take — well, technically I sat and watched while I listened to the two commentary tracks. I will have thoughts in a later post. I also watched a 2008 version with Dougray Scott (ditto).
For The Local Reporter, I wrote an article about the Chapel Hill Historical Society’s online resources and one about Carrboro winning an All American Cities award. At Atomic Junk Shop I looked at some stories and images from late 1970, such as this cool Neal Adams cover —
— and the great challenge of research being the things you don’t know you don’t know.
And I wrote some fiction for the first time in a couple of months. I took a look at my short story Oh the Places You’ll Go and discovered it’s in better shape than I thought. I trimmed a lot of the exposition but found the ending still needs more tinkering with. It’s close to what I want, but not quite there.
So yeah, a fun week. I hope y’all are having an excellent holiday — I’m doing stuff I wouldn’t normally do on a Friday such as watching a movie and putting in a solid block of exercise (usually during the work week I have to break it into chuks).
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