Scorpio 19° (November 11)

Look, you do what you can. And I am going to spend the next ten minutes telling you what’s been up today. I still feel icky about the A. thing because, as these things go, there is a chance I’ll be scapegoated. There is something a bit anxious in the air today anyway; and I seem not to be the only one feeling it. Mercury still retrograde like crazy: I went to activate a new card by phone and it wouldn’t let me do that. I went to finish a grant and it asked for certain bits to be uploaded—”demographic material”—which is a bit weird in that they want people’s email addresses and such? It makes no sense. I will piece together this final year while also taking the opportunity to extract myself, professionally and emotionally, from certain influences that are no longer serving. More glitch (and I’m just smart and being preventative) I reached out to the producer at our festival venue to say I wanted to get contracts moving sooner than later this year; and suddenly that was met with “oh can you change the dates I’m not sure they will work” after giving me to greenlight by email which is like more than a verbal agreement, n’est ce pas. The world is filled with the selfish and the cowardly and they seem to be rewarded and remunerated for their narcissistic bullying. But I’m jumping the gun.

I got onto my doctor today to get some preventative health measures in place. I still have one small hurdle to clear tomorrow on that score. Otherwise I spent the day getting a jump on everything to do with next year’s low-hanging grants, and in anticipation for a pow-wow on that score come friday morning. I need to find some easy going folks to be on our board as well to keep that energy moving forward into the new year. In the meantime I have a good deal of press that I can remerchandise. I don’t feel that I need prove myself any more. I mean, at this point I simply want to monetize some of the artful content I’ve created (there’s nothing wrong with saying that, is there?) and get all the ducks in a row. There is so much to do in the next six months it would make anybody else’s head spin. The trick is going to be to get back clear up and clear out because we are not taking all this stuff with us in any case. I am of a mind to want everything brand new; and we will have a moving sale and let people park on rose lane and maybe even out back. I truly want everything that’s not nailed down to be gone daddy gone. It’s definitely time to break with things from the past which isn’t always easy; however, when you’ve lived with them long enough you can let them go. Sometimes this philosophy also applies to people. I have been having an easier time getting my brain around that—a lesson learned from being burned and hurt by others, the mean girls who, even so, are teachers.

If I had to self-psychoanalyze I would admit that, no doubt due to not feeling accepted (read: loved) in my family of origin, I have sought life blood from emotional stones, pretty much all my life. Could explain why all growing up and into adult age my series of bestest friends were all Virgo. There was that PBS series on rocks being the literal platforms for life which was so fascinating. And I think about the mutability of the earth sign of Virgo which we’ve always likened to clay, but it would also apply to those more “core” elements of ore and coal, which becomes diamonds via the sign of Scorpio, yet another link between those two signs. Lends more meaning to Libra balance between the two.  I love working side by side with S. but sometimes she slaps here laptop keys as she types. We were recently visiting her sister who was on her laptop at the dining room table and she does the same thing. Even though they were born before the advent of ubiquitous computers they somehow share some gene that predisposes them to this apparently. I wonder what the primordial equivalent of sitting on a computer would have been that would have been transferred to this functional act. We willl never know.

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 18° (November 10)

Didn’t have the fullest night sleep in Reading but it wasn’t too too bad. We had some Thai food last evening and ice cream and watched a little Leminy Snicket. And it was so good just to give in and hang around and take some baths. And also take our time getting out of here this morning. We still managed to leave around ten thirty or so and I was feeling fairly relaxed on the drive and then very much so. We had a late breakfast at one of our favorite places on the Cape, Sunbird, in Orleans, where we did a tiny shop and grabbed some Chinon for a send-off on the wine for the next week. We are vagabonds, we really are; and as such you either have to relax into it or bemoan it and seek to stay put more often. We need to fall more firmly into the first category. I had salt cod hash with fried egg; and the chef working is the son in law of farmer Jim where we live. It’s already very quiet here and I am once again confronted with the fact I have no friends, really, in the area. People don’t have friends though—this is something I’m coming to realize. As we get older we have our partners and rotating acquaintances but we don’t have the kind of close friendships we had in our youth except when we see those characters with whom we’ve managed to preserve said bond. Anyway, I’ve got to stop saying anyway.

Reading this back I realize it’s probably not true for many people. I find women have a better time at amassing friends as does the gay male population, community having been so determinative in their experience and evolution. For the more straight identified male, who is more loner by nature I suspect (it happens in nature as well) one must be forced all the more into communion. The bro mentality centers very much around sports or place of business or industry. Tradesmen, for instance, in this quasi-sleepy New England town in which I find myself might be loners in their individual jobs but on the whole, when gathered together for a beer or meeting at Cumbys or Dunks or wherever a plethora of pick-up trucks might be spotted, bond over their comeraderie within the field. And here I sit, day after day, alone here at my computer, waiting for the next client interaction, often my only human interaction, for weeks on end. All of this is about to change, I realize, to some degree as I return to city living; but that is just yet another natural landscape that is more populated by humans, whom I will see and in with whom transact, but only, really, to pay the check or apologize for taking up too much matt space in yoga, or with the odd tourist asking me questions I may or may not be able to answer.

So it was decided I should make a pasta—red onion, anchovy, carrot, pan-roasted tomatoes, oregano and parsley, some chicken stock. We had a cocktail of left over La Stoppa and some Chinon, and then waved wine bye bye for quite awhile. We caught up on a little TV but not even really. I think we mainly just spaced out in front of the fire. I’m not writing this à la minute in case you didn’t know. I wrote to Mark to connect about this season and next and did begin a good starter list of artists we could present. I have some fairly specific ideas about fundraising too. I need to get back to the twins. It will be whirlwind week and I’m trying to get my head around that before we head to New York. That should be fun though because we will see David Mills perform and we have three (male!) clients which I’m also excited about. I like some cock in our consultancy. I know that was crude but it does break things up a bit in an otherwise pussy driven private clientele. Again sorry but I just felt like putting it that way. And I am the only one reading this probably. Funny how, especially in the middle of the night or upon waking, when you still can’t be assed to get out of bed, you are flooded with ideas; and then when you head to your typey box so many of them scatter.

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 17° (November 9)

Anyway, I was alone for most of the day playing catch up while the three ladies helped my father in law with his computer and went for a walk in the forest. They actually said forest. I pretty much recuperated and tied up the conversation with A. which kept carrying on for some reason. There is a weird quiet calm to this suburb I find myself in and I need to fall into the arms thereof. They had the dog with them today so I didn’t have to do anything about that. The brother in law is away so it is much calmer and not a constant monologue of directives that start with a sort of whiny questioning interation of my sister in law’s name. I love the guy but he can be a real pain in the ass (he knows I feel this way about him so I’m not being disloyal here—it’s even kind of his “brand” LOL).  And he is one of the kindest people (to people he loves), though not so great to strangers, even waiters….you know what I mean? He is quite successful and often goes with the territory of being ambitious, admittedly venal, and fairly self-absorbed. I should say another positive thing about him: He is a very good provider and he does focus on himself and his needs which sees him traveling a lot on his own and I have to say that I have often been jealous of his ability to leave the fam behind and go off and have fun on his lonesome. I couldn’t tell you what I did with the afternoon hourse exactly.

Last evening we did enjoy some time with the inlaws themselves although it was quite a performance. MIL comes over first and she’s fantastic and very youthful despite the fact she’s working a cane these days; and apparently FIL was all uptight about not being able to get into some program where he can watch his stocks go up and down (thus why the girls had to help him today); we waited and suddenly it was decided we would start with out him; but just as we buffeted our plates he strolled in, as he is known to do, like an actor stepping onto a stage. He’s got his “where he’s coming from” and “where he’s going” that characters in a live play should “have” and he has some opening line, of course, of his monologue (or rather a one-sided duologue) that he will deliver for the entire evening for the most part, triggering pretty comic responses from a pissed off MIL. FIL is actually his name strangely and now I’m thinking I should nickname MIL Milly. Milly and Filly. He is (as a Leo) very fond of horses so that’s also fitting.

I don’t think his daughters were all that psyched about his behavior. For, while they were helping him with his IT needs they also managed to convince him to buy his wife some jewlery, which he actually had them buy on his behalf. Punishment and reward, punishment and reward, infinity. I, alone, focused on bathing and repacking and licking my wounds from my time in Cambridge. I’m happy for the break from presenting artists for a while. Even when the process is lovely, being all about other people takes its toll on me; I have other producer friends who fare fairly well with it (but they typically make money not lose it like I do). It’s making me think how I need to regroup on that score, too. I’m kind of happy about time to rethink my process. I’m also getting very psyched for getting out of the country for awhile. I need some healthy distance, especially with what’s going down with the government. This is going to be some kind of winter I think. I’m happy for all the people I know doing fun things. I feel for those who lament but make lemons. I saw a post by a famous friend who recalled her mother and sister going on a holiday while she was sent to a “spa” which really turned out to be a fat farm for chubby girls. It was a funny story even though you know it was anything but at the time. I’m feeling sort of both things at once, dynamically, in the space just under my rib cage.

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 16° (November 8)

I awoke rather bemused at last night’s doings. And to an email that one of the performers sent to the entire venue team saying that the key they had to the flat provided didn’t work and also “we didn’t get paid” (as it’s own paragraph!), and subsequent ones harping on the subject of payment. I tell people: Do not send professional emails at two in the morning, especially when I left you after a night of partying at eleven and I know we’d been at it since five o’clock in the evening. There is so much to unpack here. It would almost  seem like there was some arrangment made directly with the venue (there wasn’t) so the first thing I wanted to find out was had a fallen off any correspondence (I hadn’t) which will prove to take a couple more days to find out. The next thing is, even if there was(there wasn’t) a plan to pay this person the night of the show, do you still want to be the person who is writing to the directors of the theater along with producers (myself included) saying we “nevergot paid”? How about “we didn’t receive our payment as planned”? But the effing thing of it, nowhere did anyone say you were being paid night of; in fact the payment schedule is in your contract, you know the one you said you sent months back which you never did. The one that we had to chase up for you and ask you to “resend” because we didn’t want to say you never sent it though we know you did but we are pretending we don’t belive that so to be polite? And sorry but there was very little audience, and your half of the artists guarantee amounts to less than you ate and drank last night on not your dime. So shhhh. I understand why others have said things like “I don’t think I can stay friends,” with this person; to which I’ve always responded: “oh, don’t say/do that,” because, because, because you’re wonderful and loveable. Just, again, shut up.

I wrote immediately to say I thought the email strange and that it probably isn’t great to send a venue, with which one is working for the first time, an email that is all-too-easily read as blaming, accusatory and going to be perceived as fueled by a night out. But my two sentences of caution and tiny admonishment, designed to nip it in the bud, did the exact opposite. It escalated with a series of responses reacting to what I don’t know. Nothing I was saying. Thus the escalation. It was as if I was accusing you of going around my back and having “clandestine conversations”. No. All I wanted to know was did I maybe fall of an email where you made an arrangement for getting paid night of. Simple yes or no question. I wanted to know that before I said any more other than: don’t be weird in an email at 2AM to professional people you are meeting for the first time. That’s all.  Anyway we had a morning appointment today with the client we saw downstairs at the bar the other night. We had lunch at the taco truck and I added fried fish and shrimp tacos to the menu of my terrible, hedonistic diet this week. We ran some errands and then we headed to the burbs to visit family. I cut chicken and otherwise sipped La Stoppa. I want to call Mike at City Winery and put a little musical series together there and why the hell not. For Spring or Fall. Part of the plea to diversify. I’m taking New York very easy I’m going to saunter the whole time. These are not my words. but they do fill out a paragraph. And really ca suffit.

I have seven minutes before a client calls so I thought I’d let my mind go and see what pops out. Now I have four because I got side tracked…

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 15° (November 7)

Ticket sales are low. Oh well. I’m feeling pour-ly. I go for a walk and meet S. on the street. We were thinking of seeing a movie but it’s not feeling right. Surprisingly Stella suggests a lunch out. We speak to our agent about strategy and feel celebratory. Early holiday lunch at La Voile where I have a beer and  snails and steak and wine and a cheese course. Mind you I’ve already had a Pho lunch and Uni dinner out with drinks (yesterday). Get nervous. We actually napped, both of us, after lunch. Had text from folks that they were done early and could they go to restaurant, which was fine. But guess who already ordered a bottle of wine plus oysters (that had come and gone) and some shrimp; ironic as that is always our first order too, but still. The show was actually pretty great.

It’s one of those moments in life where things really have to shift for the better—always up to us—or expect there to be lost. We were contacted by the astro girls and I have to think up some questions based on what they have planned. First, are you still on track timewise or is there a chance this will be pushed back. Or is it coming together and if so who else is on board at this point. What questions (and answers) have already come up in conversation with other participants. Our specific questions are:

The most important thing I can provide myself is somesense of completion. Our day to day is never complete, I realize. But it is quite important to have some sense that enough is enough day to day. I think it is possible to have both things going at once. And I think a little bit of geographical cure can help in this process. I am willing to remain based where I am and continue to give myself increasing time in places of my choice until it becomes so obvious we have to stay put. For the plug in list: Going through DB and doing a bit of “profiling”, at the same time sending good Sparkler candidates the HA offer. I should get a bit of writing down again on that grant.

We primarily calculate attendance in ticket sales. Our many generous sponsors do receive free passes. We increased discounts to showgoers—we doubled our “Sparkler” ticket discount this year—and enjoyed a marked increase in Missionary Sponsors, local businesses whose owners and staff also receive free festival passes. This further augmented audiences beyond what ticket-sales intake might show. All told our shows and events brought hundreds of additional audience members to Afterglow’s attention.

Afterglow promotes Provincetown as a destination for travelers during festival week and all year long. 85% of Afterglow’s audience comes from Off-Cape. Attendees stay in inns and hotels, frequent restaurants, bars, lounges, nightclubs; and partake of the many shops, arts venues  and services. Businesses cite an economic boon during festival—audiences and artists not only eat, drink and shop, but take tours, rent bikes, ride ferries and sample all the town offers. Afterglow advertises town businesses via its website, programs and social media. Festival artists also promote businesses they frequent via Instagram et al. Afterglow’s audience are well-heeled travelers and influencers who spend generously, tip freely, support local commerce and enrich the Provincetown’s economy. The festival has partnered with other non-profits, donating proceeds of its shows to such organizations as The Trevor Project, Camp Lightbulb, the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod and Helping Our Women (HOW).

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 14° (November 6)

Into Boston today, pretty relaxing, dropped a script off in Orleans. We called and the hotel is ready for us. Had a lunch at Pho and then I tried to make some magic but forces didn’t have my back (or maybe they did). Assign photos to ten or so Blagues at a time (after the first year) as I read through. Starting with the astrological year. Make the new one further commentary on the first one that appeared on that day. Copy and paste the old one right there into the new spot with a daily foreward. A Year of Revisiting. Easy Peasy and a good way to save time. Because also in that day, one is continuing to “read through”. I have to float through desires that are more hedonistic and start getting my Eudomonia on. “An idea for a short story.” Anyway we had a client, I called out a name. It didn’t register. Than text later that it did. Dinner at the bar at Uni and another client and partner came in. We are seeing her in two days. I have to get some words on paper for Afterglow grant so I’m hijacking today’s Blague. I did think I saw someone I know go into Pho. I had springs (it won’t be the last time this week) and a noodley broth thing. Some days I feel very Irish.

 Ours is a thoughtfully crafted marketing plan with savvy strategies for public relations and both social media and print promotion. In addition to listing shows and ticket links, the Afterglow Festival website features a concierge service promoting Provincetown’s restaurants and lounges, hotels and inns, shops and services, the arts and events. Our surgical PR-marketing efforts have secured highly visible TV, radio and print coverage. (PBS WGBH, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, others) Besides editorial, broadcast, we utilize promotional events, print posters and postcards, proliferate e-blasts, newsletters, web campaigns, and employ social and other new media. We also use vehicle advertising, and launch successful yearly direct-mail campaigns. We cross-promote with Dixon Place, LaMama and The Public Theater in NYC; and with The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge; and UnCabaret in L.A. Our frequent presence in NYC and Boston, donating time and energy in-kind to Afterglow, has been a large part of our receiving press coverage in those markets, in particular.

 Our focus is always on revisitation and are proud of the fact that many regular festival goers return year on year. In fact there is a community of well-healed supporters who not only donate to the festival, but attend each year (on sponsor passes) and make “Afterglow week” in September their yearly pilgrimage to Provincetown. Eight-five percent of our full audience comes from off-Cape Cod. We print programs touting our sponsors, but fail to afford advertising. Our celebrated branding includes a classy, bold logo, identity and collateral and eye-catching posters. We hope advertising will be a new line of offense; with support from PR, shifting more to the national and international level. The impact of local coverage is arguable, while social media among local people and businesses is impactful. We launched a Playbill-Instagram initiative, via a photoblog led by our participating artists.

We’ve had coverage from the Boston Globe (circulation 232,432 daily) Huffington Post ( 4-11 million readers, daily) New York Magazine (circulation: 600K ); Media targets include The New York Times, (1,150,589 weekday; 1,645,152 Sunday, Online: 30 million/month);); Style.com, the Daily Beast (3-10 million daily);; DailyCandy.com (600,000 daily). Travel, in-flight and arts magazines. Web support includes NYPress.com, BroadwayWorld.com, TheNewYorker.com, Culturebot.com, Vogue.com, www.Out.com, www.Playbill.com Ads would appear in Provincetown Magazine, Provincetown Banner, Cape Cod Times, Boston Globe; Providence Phoenix (80K); Time Out NY (86K); Boston Magazine (92K) , others.         

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 13° (November 5)

A very odd night of sleep to be sure with really strange dreams. I’m trying to remember. They were pretty far out. Anyway I made a list of things that need to happen this week: Get bank balances. Get a fix on wardrboe. Think about what to do for end of year donation plea. Create text for the Vaudeville tour. Do final report for the MCC grant. Put together VSB grant. Approve the business cards. Make some sort of reaction to the D+M work. Friend the twenty-summers folk. Write JCM (which I did). Work on audience for Witch Camp. Suss out voice recognition technology. There are many more things to tackle but it will all happen in due time. Write a bit to Peter Davis and also to Tim Blanks. Put together the minutes again for today’s meeting including the beach notes. I do need to work on the consultancy as well. Going to let everyone in the Boston area know about W.C. show for sure. Victim Report.

We went in to Provincetown today to get some errands done. Went to Eastham too to fill out the shopping list. I must absolutely try to focus on what’s working because, as it will turn out this week, there will be agita. I should have known there would be. There are simply some trouble makers in this world and they cannot help but sabotage the way things go. And it comes to the fore that people want to throw things in ones face. I have to work on me and the way people respond to me. I cannot police the world and yet I can’t be constantly rolling over and letting things take on some kind of life that has noplace in this equation. I am going to make sure that this next six weeks works well for me. I will use the month of January to get next year’s projects into play. I’m not trying to fall into magical thinking here but I do need to represent some “capability” here in terms of what is poossible as an ongoing thing. I will have a clear idea about scheduling and also into the money thing and I will make sure to optimize all I can in terms of the products we already have in works.

Afterglow is Provincetown’s Live Performance Arts Festival. No other non-profit arts organization is dedicated to preserving Provincetown’s heritage as an incubator of innovative theater and performance The 9th annual Afterglow takes stage September 9-15, 2019 at the Art House. Afterglow has earned star on the international festival map, bringing to Provincetown engaged audiences from the region, country, and abroad to see our award-winning artists who perform in other festival cities New York, Sydney, London, Berlin, San Francisco, Dublin, Edinburgh. Afterglow dialogues with directors of these festivals world-wide. And even our many sponsors, alone, who visit Provincetown each year for Afterglow, are visitors of means who contribute to our economy. Afterglow’s artists make headlines as social icons and activists; and range from the newly emerging to Grammy-, Tony-, Sundance-, Obie- and Academy- award- winners invirgorating the gentre live performance. Afterglow uniquely presents solo plays, neo cabaret, progressive sketch, performance art, multimedia, dance, electronica, poetic/rap, rock opera, musical comedy and other forms, fostering Provincetown’s reputation as thriving performing arts center not just a commercial/resort entertainment town. Afterglow cultivates local talent—performers, directors, designers, choreographers, composers, playwrights —in festival, and with ancillary productions. The festival launched a “playwright’s initiative” and produces work at major venues/theaters under the “Afterglow of Provincetown” aegis. Afterglow honor Provincetown’s birthright as the birth place of the modern American stage, receiving support and promotion from Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in NYC, and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge where Afterglow produces the successful Afterglow-at-Oberon series, now in its fourth season. Works originated at Afterglow have moved Off-Broadway, to London, Los Angeles, Paris and other major cities around the globe.

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

Typos happen. I don’t have a proofreader. And I like to just write, post and go!
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Scorpio 12° (November 4)

I sent some information off to Goop. Woke up to a note from Ophira about a seminar-y thing they are doing. It looks interesting. Spoke to Brad about meeting up next week before we head off to NYC. Boy do I ever need new clothes. I have to get my waistline in check once and for all. I have been cooking up a storm, even while I was finishing the book sample. Have yet to hear back from agent but I will. We need to set up a photo shoot for ourselves for December. So it is a busy time and I must not become overloaded. We head to Boston this week to see two clients and put on a show of Witch Camp with Nath Ann and Amber which I hope will be great. I spent a good deal of time today promoting but it isn’t a slam dunk for some reason. I hope that it will be. I am really looking to make some happy connections with folks this year. I will talk to all the core Afterglow people about returning and repair whatever might be. I want to be all love and forgiveness at this juncture I really do. I have to go cook more now…I made a lovely roasted chicken with bok choy. And had some nice Chinon and settled down to watch the rest of Carnival Row as S. wanted to read her book. There is much to do before leaving again on Wednesday and tomorrow is choppy as it is with errands and such. It’s okay. I’m not feeling terribly ambitious. S. did do her report for Wellfleet PD and I’ve sorted out the menu for the next two days. I think we are both feeling overwhelmed. After lunch I was going to check out Catherine The Great but I forgot it airs on Monday evenings, so I’ll see it tomorrow morning. I chucked on more Carnival Row—I know I just said that but I was talking about the evening, now I’ve gone back and am talking about the day. Anyway I didn’t watch any as I was rather overcome with odd fatigue and I might even have fallen asleep. There is a possibility I am finally coming down off major stresses. Who knows. This seems to be a week where things are shaking out. I’m not sure who and what is going to make the cut. All I know is that I have to be more efficient (again) starting next week, but in the meantime I’m enjoying a little respite (although nobody would know I’m taking one from the amount of work I do).

What I’m realizing this week is just how much I actually overdo. I have simply not killed myself this week for the first time in years. And yet I realize how much I end up moving the needle in any case. I’m not starting anything big today. I’ve promoted the show to about five hundred people. But mainly I’ve been letting my inbox become filled. I have major projects, all, to handle and the trick is to list them and then slot them into a scheduling meeting. 1) I am now handling all the Astro-Scapes business—under which umbrella I am a) slowly but surely sending out info to press, taste-makers and the like; and I am heading up the entire would-be jewelry division which will entail meetings with Alice and Tim. S. will need to make those introductions but, meanwhile I have what I need. In effect I’ll be running that business. 2) I have the grant work to do and the subsequent building of that non-profit business. 3) I must also cast an entire new year of festival and series. 4) I must promote the HA books. 5) I will be setting up the consultancy. 6) I am managing the publishing leg of the journey. 7) I will be promoting the Paris consultancy. 8) Performance is on hold for now but we must move the spoon on that score. 9) The jewelry collection.

Other things need doing: Synch my phone (delete photos), go talk to the garage about fixing second car, to shave or not to shave, scheduling procedure, activate new bank card, pack, catuch up on petty cash, put things through laundry, get Cortale to send contract, get word document of the Astro media kit, send info to Ted about Paris. Teeth whitening (you think it strange I have to put that into the schedule? do you have any understanding of what’s on my plate? I am not one to be contented directing plays at a community theater; nor do I wish to pay people to record albums for me that nobody will ever listen to).

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

Typos happen. I don’t have a proofreader. And I like to just write, post and go!
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Scorpio 11° (November 3)

I think I should probably focus solely on promoting Witch Camp, wildly. I did touch base with Nath and Amby and I am so looking forward to hanging out a bit with them as well. Yay. I have to find more joy in all of this—that much I know. Abba bloody sinian bloody Voguedarling. I woke up feeling pretty good despite my not sleeping all that much (once again) but my good mood didn’t last long due to the typical kind of conflict one endures. Try as I might I just can’t circle this square any longer and I’m going to give up trying. I’m reading this book called Self Help For Your Nerves, which is a little out of date in that the terms sedatives and shock treatment occur in the text with regularity, but it does give me insight as to why a person (I) can become fritzed out. I’m going to keep to myself today and not go on this planned beach walk. Though much gets delegated to me I still struggle with autonomy. I think people get used to speaking (down) to other people over time and I am in no way going to be able to abide that dynamic moving forward. I am of the mind, actually that we probably shouldn’t do more product at this very juncture on the diffusion side of things—I am not convinced of compatibility of personalities in the mix. And I have a certain frustration with a certain astrological sign (which I understand others do not) and my life has become ridiculously riddled with this particular brand of personage. I cannot believe I’m already feeling so awful today actually. I was set up to be in such a great and productive mood. Got up, did some cleaning, grabbed computer to organize my thoughts and then, within moments, the whole vibe is shot to hell.

I must transcend this feeling and so I am doing so. I am pretty much reaching out individually to every person I know about this upcoming show and I will fill the place I can promise you that. I would like to liaise a bit more with Mark, the man of the hour. He is such a doll, he truly is. I was also thinking about Barneys and Anthony. I feel like he  might be a good fit for our company. Maybe we can have a drink with him downtown. He probably doesn’t drink but you know what I mean. I will talk to S. and shoot him a text. What if he wants to work sort of part time and suss some things out for us. What if he wants to manage production. We don’t know. I need to set up time to talk to Cyle, too. Anyway Facebook sucks as it limits all the ways I try to invite people to events. I should probably do some kind of Mad Mimi but I really can’t be assed. That is the expression. I’m willing to take a little bit of a bath I suppose. I have given many hours to this. The next thing I need do is get some doctor’s appointments booked for December. I will do all those sorts of things on Tuesday.

Tomorrow I’m going to do a chalk-board schedule and make sure I’m hitting my marks as best as I might. I’m a bit frustrated by one of our collaborations at present. Too much time goes by between correspondence and then the party doesn’t quite respond to the question or request being made. I’m kind of feeling like why bother. But I’m going to persevere and just understand that I have no patience and I am a bitch because that’s what always ends up being the upshot. It’s never that I’m a functioning human being whose patience has been worn thin over months of waiting and ineptitude. So I’ll hold my swollen tongue. I used to write poetry, did you know that? Probably not. A poet I know said she got the name for her book from a festival flyer I sent her; and was going to mention us in the acknowledgment but then she didn’t. People mainly don’t follow through on what they say they are going to do. Also, the people I run into the most problems with (I’m sorry to say but it’s true) are those who are in twelve-step programs. How can they work on themselves for an hour or sometimes several every day for years and still be fucking assholes. Case in point that little creepoid D.D. What an asshole. He tried to extort money from us many years ago “pretending” we had a deal in place we didn’t have—he invited over his manager at the time and when that creature walkd in D.D. started play-acting that he was directing us at that very moment. But AA is a cult and especially in the Ptown-NYC world these folks all glom onto one another. Anonymous my ass, too. Because when people speak in meetings about “this festival director” or some such everybody knows it’s me. I’m not saying this has happened I’m just using it as an example. But yeah it’s happened.

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

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Scorpio 10° (November 2)

It’s a birthday for someone. He who must really not be named. It’s funny: I ended up throwing/giving away a lot of stuff today. That process was made fun actually because unbeknownst to me S. also wanted to tackle her stuff so that worked out great. I have to finish my book today. I’m forcing myself to read more and I forgot that once I amp it up all I want to do is more and more reading. I cannot wait to return to the Manoir Hovey this Spring it really is one of the best places. In the meantime we are going to have some fun promoting the Paris consultancy. That is truly going to be a lot of fun. Tee shirts and Books maybe go together and can be promoted through our website so that we can kill a couple of birds with a couple of stones. I’m taking over the entire Astro-Scapes enterprise. I have asked for memo to Tim and myself; and a memo to Alice and myself. And then one with Marilyn. We had a great chat about all the stationery and such. The designer Elisa really is genius. I think we are surrounding ourselves with a stellar team. We have some good ideas/directions mapped out there too I think. I also think I’m learning we have great business instincts. I forget I’m a business man. Also this trip planning I wrote to JLB:

Hi There. Thought I’d move from text to email where i am not all thumbs.
So it’s November and it looks like we are going to try and stay in Europe when we come over at New Year. We will probably fly on Christmas and drop some of our cases at P+M’s and probably arrange to see them in Suffolk for a few days or not then take the train on the 30th in the morning from King’s Cross to Edinburgh where we can rendezvous with you two and share a ride (and the cost thereof) to Aberfeldy, so we should synchronize ourselves for said rendezvous.

Will be so fun to have that evening together just the four of us. Aberfeldy may never be the same. I am telling you in advance that we are not aiming to win this costume contest. We are probably the least steam-punky people on the planet and as we will have luggage for a couple months with us I think we are going to try and make elements of our current wardrobe “look” steam-punky, but otherwise we are going to keep a low-costume-profile.
So we go to the party where I will attempt to find the food and not drink champagne by the bucketful; dance, dance, dance; Lynne is of the mind that the band will be Duran Duran. I’m thinking they might go more on theme with the steam punk thing, but anyway, dance, dance, dance. Back to hotel. Maybe brunch at Jo’s again who knows. Otherwise we will nurse our heads at the hotel over greasy breakfasts. Then we have that whole day and night to ourselves again. And then we head back to Edinburgh on the 2nd Jan. We have booked a room at Edinburgh Residences for that night just because we won’t want to do train that same day after driving from Aberfeldy. Just saying! We will then take train back to King’s Cross on the 3rd.

Now, we are going to work on our jewelry collection with our designer who lives in London for a week or ten days. Then we will take Eurostar to Paris and leave our larger cases with Dom + Nan then head to Italy because we are FINALLY going to have our honeymoon in Venice 31 years later. So I am going to pick your brain about Venice in January. Please tell me this isn’t too horrible a time of year to go. Coming from New England it will not be cold for us. I know it will be wet and maybe flood-y. But please tell me we will have fun there this time of year???Then the hope is that we have a flat in Paris from around January 22nd for a solid two months. First, we want to avoid New England winter. Second, we need to keep working with our designer so she can come to us in Paris or we can pop back to London on Eurostar once or even twice. Third, we have so many clients (consultancy) who work in fashion and design and live in Europe or Asia so we will get to meet with them in the flesh for a change instead of by Skype.

Then we will head home by March. Meanwhile in that two months (we will have second bedroom) maybe you can come visit us. Or somewhere in all this mix we can come visit you. Or both. In any case that is our general hoped/planned itinerary, all of which hinges on finding the right place in Paris. I think we are close on that score though. Venice thoughts?

To view the original Sabian Symbol themed 2015 Cosmic Blague corresponding to this day: Flashback! The degree pointof the Sabian Symbol will be one degree higher than the one listed for today. The Blague portrays the starting degree of for this day ( 0°,  for instance), as I typically post in the morning, while the Sabian number corresponds to the end point (1°) of that same 0°-1° period. There are 360  degrees spread over 365 or 6 days per year—so they near but not exactly correlate.

Typos happen. I don’t have a proofreader. And I like to just write, post and go!
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