Busy day here…so busy I haven't been able to finish the article about Nursing Homes but I will. Had a plumber in because I had three problems that I thought required a plumber. He fixed two and told me the third was out of his area of expertise. My washing machine is not leaking water because of a busted hose (as I thought) but because of something within its housing, which is the jurisdiction of an appliance repairman guy.
My appliance repairman guy arrived two hours later, figured out what was wrong but didn't have the required new part on his truck. He'll come back tomorrow, which will work out fine because my cleaning lady comes on Thursday and can do my laundry then.
Then I went to my bank to clear up some matters and popped over to a Subway sandwich place to get a meatball sandwich and a tuna sandwich, as it turned out, engage in some verbal fisticuffs with a gent who was unmasked. He was outraged at the sign on the door that said he needed a face covering to go in and buy his foot-long Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki on 9-Grain Honey Oat bread. He kept saying it was "discrimination" and based on the other political thoughts he voiced, I would guess it was the only discrimination of any kind anywhere that ever bothered him.
Our exchange would not interest you but the last two lines of it were him saying, "Wearing a mask is stupid" and me telling him, "Maybe so…but I have two sandwiches and you have none."
Tonight at 7 PM my time, I will be interviewing my friend Steve Stoliar about Groucho Marx. Thursday evening at 7 PM my time, I will be interviewing my friend Frank Ferrante about Groucho Marx. This coming Saturday at 4 PM my time is our third Cartoon Voice Panel, this time with Dee Baker, Laraine Newman, Alan Oppenheimer, Vanessa Marshall and Bill Farmer.
Next Tuesday at 7 PM my time, I will be interviewing screenwriter-actor-director Carl Gottlieb. And in the weeks to come, I'll be chatting with Leonard Maltin, Jeff Altman, Dennis Palumbo, Jewel Shepard, Jeff Abraham, Jim Brochu and a whole bunch of other people. Unless I get tired of this.