Yesterday, Walter’s daughter was baptised, and as Bry was the godfather, that left no one to tend to the store.
Except your’s truly.
After attending the mass in the morning, and hitting the after-party for a bit, I went to the new Stash (whose sign is finally up), and spent five hours manning the register.
It was pretty fun, actually. You can take the boy out of retail, but you can’t take retail out of the boy, I guess. When the day ended, I was a bit disappointed.
Onto other stuff…
Tonight, we’re having the second test screening of ‘Dogma’. I’ll let you know how it went tomorrow.
Wednesday, I’ll be heading west again, for about two weeks or so. I’ll be putting in some time at the Bruckheimer offices, doing a little mixing on the ‘Dog’ (which I’ve seen refered to as ‘Dogshit’ by some non-fans; always a pleasure, that), and attending Malcolm’s AFM premiere of ‘Tailights Fade’. Hopefully, I’ll be bringing the ol’ WebTV terminal in tow, so I can keep in touch.
For those who know (or care), the Rider’s Board is being shut down. Some have speculated on the reason, so I figured I’d put the subject to rest here.
The reason: there’s nothing that board accomplishes that the so-called ‘Other Board’ doesn’t. No sense in having three boards on the VA teat, when two’ll do the job nicely. It just seemed like common sense to me.
So if this has disappointed or inconvenienced anybody, I apologize. But all good things come to an end. One day, this board, too, will go the way of the Rubik’s Cube and parachute pants. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anytime soon, but it is inevitable, isn’t it? When my popularity dies (not that my popularity is wide-spread now, but let’s be honest – the flicks we’ve done DO have a certain following), and the Stash isn’t pulling in enough to make the rent, and Jay and Silent Bob is a concept I have to explain to my daughter when she looks at a dusty action figure of her old man holding a ‘blunt’, and demands explanation, there will be no reason to keep a board up and running. Hopefully, you’ll all have made some friends here, and gone on to do some cool stuff yourself (then open your own websites, and deal with the agony and the ecstasies of flamers and fans), and you’ll like back on this time and smile (or shudder).
Me? I give it all another five years.
But until then, let’s milk this fucking thing for all it’s worth, I say. Rise and fall with me, good people; vicariously celebrate my successes and suffer my demise – all from the comfort and safety of your keyboard. It may embarrass you in years to come, or it may always hold a place in your heart as a weird, fun, and special time, but I promise you (as something I can attest to after doing this for going on three years now)…
It’ll never be boring.
5 years??!?! We find that quite hard to believe. As the current audience continues to grow and enjoy the new flicks, new generations are still discovering the original trilogy. Nah, we think ‘ol Kev’s got plenty more than 5 years of filmmaking left in him…And hell, we HOPE so, there’s gotta be a TON more stories to be told!
