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p.s. Hey. ** Squeaky, You're back! Oh, man, thank for that link. The dark ride video is amazing, and so is the homemade roller coaster video at the top. You're a major dude for sharing that with me. Yeah, I was thinking you've been busy in a really good way from following your FB Newsfeed stuff. Awesome. The film with Kevin isn't complete yet? Well, then I'll twiddle my thumbs until next year and hope that I'll get to coincide with the showing in LA. Anyway, it's just really cool to have you back for however long, Darrell, and all the ultra-best to you, man. ** Misanthrope, Hm, mysterious about the WWE power drain. I wish I could watch it at least semi-rgularly so I could try to analyze the problem. It's on a pay-for channel here thatI don't have and probably wouldn't swing for. Kyler Moss: The Dark Ride. I'd wait in line for that. Maybe even a very long line. ** Unknown, Cool, I already have feelers out for that novel, and that quoted sentence was proof positive. New novel-in-progress, excellent news! My George novel isn't a George novel anymore, or not entirely, and it is picking itself up off the killing floor where it lay for quite a while, which is nice. Best to you, Pascal! ** David Ehrenstein, Ha ha, no, I've made up my mind. No Proust ever. I feel so free! Great that you got to see the Resnais, and that it was a goodie! ** Wolf, Hey! Oh, yeah, I had been there before, but it had a lovely newness to it due to the circumstances. Hm, maybe Chambord is my favorite. Overall. Its insides are kind of disappointingly hollow, but the possibilities therein are incredible. I'm going to get to ride Magical Powder! How fucking exciting is that? And apparently you can buy the Magical Powder itself at the end of the ride. No, never been to Efteling, the Dutch park, but Z. and I have gradually cementing plans to make it at least one of the centerpieces of one of our upcoming adventures. Yes, way cool way beyond cool about MSc. Exciting and pretty mad: can one exist without the other? And, uh, ha ha, your Proust dialogue, yes! ** Sypha, Thanks a lot for the link to that dark ride. That stuff is total catnip to me. ** James, Oh, I see. Yeah, obviously, amusements parks are the opposite for me. Growing up in close reach of Disneyland and going there multiple times a year ever since I was a blob shaped me thoroughly and permanently. I'm so happy that I'm never going to have to get in an argument about Proust. I'm so happy that I will forever be able to shrug and say, 'I don't know.' I think we'll be spending quite a chunk of our Japan trip in Tokyo. It seems to be sort infinitely full of things we want to do. ** Gary gray, I won't burden you with kind words, but I am really sorry about your mom, man. The dating thing sounds complicated and ultimately very nice. It's doing cool things to your words. I did ride the Sturtevant ride at her retro here. It was sweet. Mm, I think I've seen some Roller Coaster Tycoon dark rides randomly, but I will make a concentrated study of them today. Thank you. And for your Proust input. Yesterday's comments were kind of the icing on the cake of my 'No Proust ever' decision. Take care. ** xTx, x-ty! Good, good, good about the fineness of your life and, yes, about the completion of the novel section and its transference to a pair of trusted eyes. Lucky whoever. Very exciting, my pal! I'm getting my inspiration back, so I'll vibe you a big wad of it. ** Steevee, I totally know what you mean about those FB threads. I won't name names, but, yeah, ugh, people should get a life and all that. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi! It does, doesn't it? I think I want to go there if/when I ever get back to Oregon, which logic says I will do. I thank your depths for dreaming about me. I feel cuddled or something. I've gotten really into traveling lately, yeah. There have definitely been times when I wasn't into that, but, with the right companion, it's incredibly inspiring. Interesting about your turn-around on Proust. Maybe I'm just being a scamp, but I'm excited that I'll never read him and will never know. Funny. Maybe I'll just read things on Proust by Barthes and the rest of them. Yeah, maybe that. ** DOVEY, Hi, Dovey! Okay, I'll write to you and maybe we can talk/Skype thereafter. Your book about Antonio is such a beautiful thing. I've kept waiting and waiting for that ... was it a DVD (?) that someone was supposed to be putting together of Antonio's work, but I haven't seen any results so far. Oh, thank you so very much for sharing that video. Everyone, DOVEY, who is the mother of the late, incredibly missed Antonio Urdiales, a former d.l. here and one of the most brilliant, genius people I have ever encountered in my life, has shared a video of Antonio, and it's here, and he is always so much more than worth all of time itself, so go watch. I'll try to figure out a way to try to organize people for your book project here on the blog. Let me think about how best and most efficiently to do that. I think from the beauty of what you're writing about him in your comments, you don't need to worry about 'not being a writer'. Love is the greatest creator of talent there ever was. Much and great love to you! ** Dynomoose, Hi, A! You went to Kings Island? Ooh, envy. Hello Kitty glasses, nice choice! I have the Hello Kitty Amusement Park in Tokyo at the forefront of my Japan agenda. Sounds like a fun weekend down your way, for sure. Sweet. ** S., Stack! Everyone, S. continues on his mighty, high-speed roll of Emo stacks, and they're getting richer by the entry. Check it out. That Smell. Yeah, of lava. It's right next to the volcano region of France, or the dead volcano region. I have zero interest in cathedrals, but that one is a total stand-out, at least if you never actually go inside and see all the pews and gold crosses and shit, which I never intend to do. Nice about the boy. You sound suitably disoriented by him. Sounds like an upper. Hope and magic? That's all there is. Seriously, that's it. So, cool! ** Omar, Hi, man! That's really, really great that your art residencies idea, which I remember you wishing for a while back, is starting to happen. I kind of admire how I do the blog too, but I mostly shake my head at myself and think I'm insane-ish. I'm kind of dying to go to Efteling. Soon, I think. Take care, pal. ** Bill, I hear you about Korea. Do you have some time before you have to decide? I have never been on any of those dark rides in the post. They were wish choices. I'll probably go on the two Japanese ones when I get down there. The Efteling one, for sure. Quite possibly the Belgian one. Hex, I don't know. I never seem to want to spend much time in the UK for some reason. Harsh, yes, good word for it. ** Let's see ... oh, fogs. Lots of them and a certain amount of lots of different kinds of fog. For your delectation or indifference or anything in between. See you tomorrow.