10.31.07

Scary!

Posted in Life at 11:57 pm by Rob Schultz

Back in high school, in the colder months of the year, I could be more or less counted on to have a cough. It was a subtle thing, more an idle habit than an affliction.

I don’t recall having it around in recent years, but it’s something I’m bringing back. And the rich LA air is doing its part to help give me a worrying – if not menacing – sound.

So far, I’ve got it going about a month. Since, say, the 6th or 10th of October. I might let it rest up a couple days here and there, like a muscle that needs a little time off to grow stronger after a particular stress. With this regimen, my cough can grow mighty and strong!

Officially and technically, of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with me. At least not in the sense of ‘things that can cause a cough.’ I don’t waste time on nonsense like running a fever or exhibiting symptoms of flu. If you were looking for an apt description of my lungs, one could do worse than to say they were “textbook perfect.” The cough doesn’t interfere with breathing-related activities, like running, singing, speaking loudly or at length, or describing my cough in specific terms.

..but still…that cough….

10.21.07

Confidential via Internets

Posted in Life at 10:07 pm by Rob Schultz

To Abby, from North Carolina by way of San Francisco visiting Los Angeles for almost-free, who quit her job and her home and her old life to have another one, who waited patiently in line for the 7:00PM Sunday free showing of ASSSSCAT on October 21, 2007 at the UCBLA, who could not believe the show was free, who has read the Alienist and wouldn’t expect anything less than a raw smoothie and has a red messenger bag with the Full Frame logo upon it: the word was PICARESQUE.

(This is a modern-day message in a bottle.)