Reporting from Winnipeg

[thehefner]

Arrived in Winnipeg yesterday. I'm staying with a nice lady and her grouchy cat named Whiskers who doesn't like that I'm sleeping in his bed. I almost didn't find the place. Initially, I got the address wrong and ended up on the doorstep of an old man who peeked through his blinds and quavered, "Who are you? How dare you! Get off my property!"

I'm a bit concerned about communication with the outside world. Long distance rates are killer, and the lady has no Internet, so for the time being, I've found a little cafe where I'm tying this across from a man who looks like a cross between my father and Vigo the Carpathian.

I am anxious and pumped for the festival, and am alternating my mantras from Bob Wiley's "I feel good, I feel great, I feel wonderful," and a great song I heard on Broadway radio: "I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing."



ETA: forgive any typos. I'm still getting used to typing on Mother Box.

Comments

[nectarousness.livejournal.com]

Fro Winnipeg.

Is that a new hairstyle? :D

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

You should have asked the old man if he had the internet and just stayed with him...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd actually caught that one in time before some smartass would make a snarky comment, but noooooooooooo.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

No wonder he wanted me off his property! He must have Peg rats congregating on his lawn, using their iPhones and laptops to leech off all the precious, precious broadband he's been hoarding all these years!

[nectarousness.livejournal.com]

I AIM TO DISPLEASE.

[pure-doxyk.livejournal.com]

Woooooooot! Good luck!

And kick that fucking cat if it gives you lip. They're mostly all bark.

Er, no, wait... ;)

[gnort.livejournal.com]

"I've found a little cafe where I'm tying this across from a man who looks like a cross between my father and Vigo the Carpathian. "


You think he's a long lost relative of that one kid from WAC who looked like a cross between you and Vigo the Carpathian?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I was thinking just that. He's Bizarro Don Hefner!

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

Winnipeg? I'VE BEEN THERE!

[viizou.livejournal.com]

People still name their cats Whiskers?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah? What'd you think?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And so far, Whiskers just seems to be fat and mildly whiny, but not bad. So far. We still have twelve more days together...

[scottyquick.livejournal.com]

I thought they had a gosh darn great comic shop. And lots of violence!

[emma-elicit.livejournal.com]

"Nine People's Favorite Thing" is from the excellent show called [title of show]. You may already know this, but if you don't, now you do. In fact, we will be producing said show here at Signature in the spring, so I expect you to be here.

Good luck in Winnipeg. Godspeed.