{"id":226,"date":"2008-10-21T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2024-01-09T14:26:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:26:24","slug":"lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, The Goddess<\/b> and I had lunch with Sean Molloy<\/a> and Helen Rickerby<\/a>. It was a great get-together: even though I’d met Sean only one time earlier, the atmosphere was very congenial. A fellow screenwriter and Guild board member<\/a>, the conviviality was due largely to his being a fellow blogger and Guild forum<\/a> loiterer. Oh, his taste in comics can’t be faulted; well, except for his Marvel bias. Anyway, we sat around a table and talked and talked and talked, and all of a sudden two hours had just gone<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried to post about the very pleasant experience but, despite five false starts, have been unable to satisfactorily tie it in to the business of this blog. I knew what I wanted to say but was unable to execute it in such a way as to be a). appropriate, b). informative, c). entertaining, and d). easy on the reading eye.<\/p>\n

Yes, meeting fellow scribes is b). informative and c). entertaining, and the lunchtable conversation was a). blog-appropriate – but you, Gentle Reader, don’t want a transcript<\/i> of the conversation that accompanied our repast.<\/p>\n

You want something to take away from this post, some nugget of wisdom<\/span> observation, some kind of distinct perspective on an everyday occurrence (having lunch, not meeting fellow scribes).<\/p>\n

… Nope. Still don’t have it.<\/p>\n

But I got a lot farther with this post than the others.<\/p>\n

– No, wait, I have it: if after [PICK A NUMBER] attempts, you lose heart and focus, remember: Every time God closes one door, He opens another.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Here endeth the lesson.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, The Goddess and I had lunch with Sean Molloy and Helen Rickerby. It was a great get-together: even though I’d met Sean only one time earlier, the atmosphere was very congenial. A fellow screenwriter and Guild board member, the conviviality was due largely to his being a fellow blogger and Guild forum loiterer. … <\/p>\n

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