“There was a scene where they wanted me to run down these steps. It was outside on these cement steps. After I did this, the director said, “Can you come down faster with more of a sense of urgency?” I was like, “No. I can’t. Listen. I know I still look like Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop) but don’t ask me to do nothing you won’t ask Morgan Freeman to do!” Eddie Murphy: interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh, the rabbit hole you have avoided today! This one might have turned into a word salad of unimaginable proportions. There's just so much to talk about! But you'll be relieved to know that I have done my job and narrowed the focus appropriately.
The entire 3-season television series would be complete in about 5 minutes and bedtime would immediately commence. The protagonist has been justly rewarded for the defeat of evil and is heading back to their West Virginia childhood home for the first time in a decade. The winding drive through hills, valleys, and mountainous forests is on the screen while the background music begins to play, "Take Me Home Country Roads".
I’m celebrating the one-year anniversary of my arrival in Manchester this week. Coming from a major metropolitan area to a small town of 5,000 takes a little getting used to. I am adjusting. It’s not a bad thing, it’s just different.
A whirlwind of a week – or two.
It’s good that I’m in Iowa now. But the whole process was more than I want to undertake again anytime soon.
It seems that I’ve been working with cardboard boxes forever. Load ‘em up, schlep them somewhere, spend an entire day driving them westward, unload and unpack while trying to find a place for the contents. And, don’t forget the demands of office emails which are piling up beyond imagination.
And it seems that I get to do this all without what anyone would properly describe as a bed. Online ordering isn’t always what we’d like it to be!
The complaints are done, but there seems to be a legitimate topic for this week in spite of everything.
