December 2009
12 posts
And just to ring out 2009 with some self-absorbed...
….here is a tiny excerpt from the end of my unpublished first novel, WHO LISTENS? I finished the first draft in October, 1997, and I had written all the chapters I had planned to write, but the book had no ending (which worked out nicely because it had no plot). So, I decided to tack on an epilogue called “About Some of the Cast,” where the novel’s narrator, Junior Stearns,...
Well, I finished my goals list....
One of the goals was to not give advice unless someone asks. But….since it’s still 2009, I’m begging you: Go, run, run and see CRAZY HEART with Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer. Beyond satisfying.
For around three years in the late 90s, I met...
…with a bunch of men in what was called a “Goals Group.” It was started by a friend of mine and based on the principles outlined in a chapter in a seminal 1960s self-help book called PsychoCybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. Maltz’s theory was rather than make some gratuitous list of goals, you divide your goals into multiple areas (career, relationships, spirituality, health,...
Season's Bloggings from your postman....
As you can see, we are still accepting good...
…to wit.
Radio Programming Alert: I'll be on Bob and Tom...
…set your radio dial for screams.
In the meantime, guess who I run into on 53rd and Broadway today? Legendary actor Frank Langella. Here is the important section of the exchange:
“Frank!” He turns. “I’m Bill Scheft. We worked together on Dr. Paradise (a CBS pilot that aired once on “Summer Failure Theater”) 22 years ago.”
He laughs. “What...
Stay with me on this one....
First, some background. I am a lifelong New England Patriots fan, and a former student athletic trainer. I am dying to meet Tom Brady because I desperately need to ask him why, when he blew out his knee in the first game last season (Full ACL/MCL tear) did the Patriots medical staff not only walk him off the field, but had him WALK DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS to the locker room. When the...
I think this other guy's been dead long enough....
….to tell this story. Around `1987-1988, I’m working Rascals, a wonderful club in West Orange, New Jersey. One of my favorite clubs. It was run by these smart Italian brothers with the unGinzo last name of Magnuson. They used to pay me headliner money to emcee, which I did gladly. You’d go out with two other strong city acts and do Thursday-Sunday. In 1989, just before he hit...
Here's a piece I just turned in....
….for, wait for it, the program people will be sitting on next February at the annual Writers Guild of America East Awards. The WGA wanted something along the theme of “iWrite,” which I gather is about being a writer in the digital age, an age I entered kicking and screaming. They could have shamed more eloquent people to do this piece, but they know ever since the strike two...
Okay, "Mr. Media" interview on Blogtalk is up....
Mangia….
Did an interview today on Blogtalk radio....
…with Mr. Media, Bob Andelman. Let me just say how different it is when the guy actually reads the book. I will post it when it’s available. As always, I talked about everything other than the book, but eventually I brought it back, I think. Bob and I have similar backgrounds. He started as a sportswriter and told a story about getting cursed at in the Yankee dugout by Yogi Berra,...