45 Degrees in Beantown, and a dank and wet 45 degrees it is.
@Wolf can probably see his breath up on the North Shore. Where's this "global warming" AL-gore promised us? I thought I'd be fishing off my back porch by now.
I came across the last 3-pound bag of New England (Brand) butter pecan coffee at BJs, a warehouse store "back East," as you westerners put it, for $15.99, so I grabbed it. That's what I'm imbibing now. That's $5.33/lb! In the supermarket yesterday, I saw Starbucks "on sale" at $10.00/lb. If you want to frighten yourself, look at the orange "per pound" price for those K-pods of coffee. You're paying over $1.00 per serving. On sale, Eight O'clock @ $.55 each K-pod, divided by .022/pound of coffee in each K-pod, comes out to $25/lb. And that's on sale!
Big news! I just finished my two-hour, 113-page screenplay-pilot for a TV series, "Fire On the Mountain," an Old Testament sword-and-sandal epic which tells, for the first time for serious cinematic production, the extraordinary Ahab/Jezebel/Elijah narrative. Ahab and Jezebel are tragic characters: think of it as "Breaking Bad In Ancient Israel." My gimmick is to make them young, not middle-aged stalwarts. Ahab is 28, a young king with an insecure dynasty. Jezebel is 18, very beautiful but very ambitious. Elijah hasn't been introduced yet, but I'll probably make him 16, a desert outcast, who's as frightened by his prophetic voice as he is of the ruthless Jezebel.
Now to let it marinate for a few weeks, get started on one-hour episodes, and work my rewrites etc. Then to shop it around possible agents or studios. I'd love to get it into the hands of Dallas Jenkins, producer/writer of "The Chosen," which covers the Jesus narrative.
Anybody interested in reading it, shoot me a PM with your email. Something the Bible doesn't cover but I do: a love relationship between Ahab and Jezebel.
