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Santiago El Grande

Years ago a friend took me to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. When I first laid eyes on Santiago El Grande by Salvadore Dali I was blown away. It’s enormous, for one thing, and when I saw it up close, I could not get over the—at times—almost photorealistic detail Dali managed to achieve. It was the first painting of its calibre I had ever seen. It may be the only painting of its calibre it’s possible to see.

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A Capital Pee

I really had to pee.

I was trying to get to work early for a radio drama taping. I wanted to get there and test the microphones, the console, and still have time to sit in on the read-through. Figured if I left by seven, I could make it in by eight-thirty, with the first cast members arriving at ten.

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The Third Cat

I want to tell you about my cat. Actually, I have three cats, but the one I want to tell you about is Blossom. The story begins with my father-in-law, who decided to move out of his house in the country into an apartment in Moncton, New Brunswick. He needed a new home for his eight-year old cat, Blossom, so my wife generously decided to add Blossom to our already (in my opinion) full roster of felines. They decided to fly Blossom from Moncton to Toronto. They drugged her and packed her up and somehow it became my responsibility to pick her up at the airport after work.

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Cops and Dogs

Strolled out into the backyard this morning and discovered a police officer lurking in the bushes just behind my place. Just over the fence from him a municipal worker was cutting the grass in the park with a Ride-On lawnmower.

I wondered if I’d stumbled onto a man hunt or crime scene.

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ART #1 New Release in Radio Reference

Adventures in the Radio Trade (“ART”) hits #1 in Radio Reference on Amazon.

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Eulogy for a Cat

Two days after Christmas one year— one of our cats died. Brandy was named after the song "Brandy" by Looking Glass, just because I liked the song, and the name suited her somehow, or came to. We can’t remember exactly when we got her, but it was something like fourteen years ago.

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William Goldman

“The writing is never what takes the most time. It’s trying to figure what you’re going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.”

— William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade, 1983.