Hi, March. Where the hell did you come from?
February sucked, basically. Anytime it's still winter outside sucks, basically.
One positive thing about it being too cold and snowy and inhumane to be outside is all the indoor people-watching you can do.
People-watching outdoors is truly a sport in itself, but indoor people-watching is an art. You can't be obvious and you can't pretend you're really watching something else outside, because you're not outside. So, it's an art. And the best people-watching people are in New York.
Another positive thing is all the subway time you have. Public transportation, like the army, is a great equalizer.
If you're on the subway, you're at the mercy of the subway and its schedule and its smells and its weird breezes.
You're also a prime candidate for people-watching.
An idea I had the other day that came to me while staring inconspicuously at a really skinny woman who just couldn't grasp how important the subway handrails were, was to film a shit load of marbles in an empty subway car on its usual route. It might be really boring to watch, or not that lame. And that's the point.
Another idea that came to me while fighting for grip-space on that aforementioned crucial handrail was to write a spoof of "Clarissa Explains It All" about a really JAPPY girl from Long Island or Bergen County who bitches a lot called, "Marissa Complains A Lot." I was generalizing by assuming that girl's name was Marissa. Aren't they all.
Promise I'll be in a better mood just as soon as the weather stops being such a bitch.
