Monday, January 03, 2005

Dead Fish

It’s the start of another new year and today was my first full day of work on the show since it was pulled off the air last year. It’s only been two and a half weeks, but saying it happened last year makes me feel like I better get back to making new shows and figuring out how to get them on the air again before every sacrifice I’ve ever made in the pursuit of this darn network deal ends up being all for nothing.

A really good friend of mine took me out for dinner earlier tonight. We were going to hook up for a beer and a quick bite to eat since we didn’t get a chance to over the holidays, but then he gave me a belated Xmas gift, and since I didn’t get him anything, I suggested that he may as well pay for dinner as well in the spirit of giving and all that kind of stuff. I suggested we go for a nice steak dinner, it was awesome. The gift was the Garden State DVD that just came out. I had a great night, good friends are hard to come by, but the laughs come easy when you’re with one!

Earlier today I gave two new guys the guided tour of Lazy Town headquarters, where we work on the show each and every day. They are co-op students who are going to be working with us for the next couple of months. Russ is going to be working on the website, so look for lots of new stuff on the site over the next few months. Dan will probably do some editing and little bit of everything which will make for a few laughs around here in the coming weeks I’m sure.

First thing this morning, I threw away one of my favourite pair of boxers. I won’t bother boring you all with the details of why I had to do that, but I just thought I would let you all know about it, because it was the most eventful part of my morning. It was kind of fantastic, actually – they had fish on them and I’ve had them a really long time!

Happy new year everyone,

JR