Back From The Beach

Two days, two nights, one completed-pretty-much musical, one Mom whose ear you need to scream into, one old friend and his lovely new wife, one trip from Universal City to Redondo Beach taking one subway and two light rail lines, three meals in malls, one easy half-empty flight into Burbank, one packed-to-the-slats flight out of LAX, two delicious Plotzer defeats of the World Champion Braindeads, one fight Plottie does not want to have with his brother, but if he doesn't the situation will get worse, ten cigarettes smoked in ten hours by his Mom, which isn't so bad for one day, thirty questions about why he is going to Redondo Beach, to work on that musical?, thirty five questions about is he still working on that musical? forty questions about is he ever going to finish that musical?

One beautiful and touching intro to a 200 page PhD thesis. Plottie sits close to his Mom and reads her the part where The Great BZWZ has dedicated the whole thing to her grandmother. Quite a few choke-ups and startovers while reading.

One crazily proud Papa.