willie pushing a broom- housekeeping

OK, housekeeping matters.
1)I just ran into the confusion of being om the blog site without being signed in and thus had to comment as Mr Pink. I will warn all and sundry to be sure you are signed in, or else be sure you have some way to get your comments and brilliant contributions onto the blog. Do check now and then for comments from non-members. I think Nachista added something recently. WE have to post those comments if we want them to be seen by non-members.
2) I apologize for running this thing in two channels sometimes- email is so immediate, but we will always need to make sure the blog reflects the current state of the script.
3) This is more structure than housekeeping, but here I come:

I see 5 living main Eyester characters, those being the other five squeezers. I see the dead guy, Ignatius Katz ( I wanted Ignatz, but there could be copyright issues and Ignatius brings to mind JK Toole's Confederacy of Dunces). Suddenly, I interrupt MYSELF - I have already interupted everybody else. THIS IS A WES ANDERSON MOVIE. This is the Royal Tenenbaums go to a funeral. This is the life aquatic of J Peterman.

GOLLY.
Now, where were we. I am the dead guy. 5 living eyesters, some with the capability to communicate off the Eye, some with only the Eye to work with. Mike is right. You have to make it plausible and practical that they will all go to the funeral. Put the funeral on the train line, so Mike can come from NYC. Put the other characters either close enough to drive ( on a wild hair) or devoted enough to spend the time and money. Heck, set the thing at or near a long weekend. As I say, one of us can be rich enough that the three day weekend is no big deal- a gift from an indulgent spouse. At least one (more) eyester shows up completely unexpectedly- he or she can be out of the core group, but has to at least pop up and say the magic Eye High Sign. There isn't one, which is where much of the comedy comes in. Katz, having worked at JP, has relatives who wear JP clothes. We keep thinking they are Eyesters. I still like somebody mistaking Katz's gay brother's boyfriend for Peterman, somehow. Katz's family are very nice, normal people, but like most of our families, they seem a little less cool than the Fabulous Eyesters from bigger places.

SO, we introduce the five. We hint at the existence of Katz, through others' comments mostly, and occasionally through his postings. I think he can be fat enough to die of a hear attack. That doesn't take much. Congenital defect. It takes one sentence to explain and then the explainer goes on to say that he was too much of a loser to do what he had to do- ironically , to lose weight. Gee, my son was such a loser, why couldn't he lose what he needed to? Fifteen or twenty pounds would have been enough. I hate to sound , I don't know, ungrateful, but he really didn't do very well with his life, you know. And now the fat loser is gone. And I miss the hell out of him.

Unlike Willie, Katz will post on all sorts of things, but just often enough to show his brilliance. He will write little poems. He will tell stories like Stoney, He will be incredibly inspiring and even encouraging now and then. He will never fail to welcome new eyesters on their first post. And then he will die. The family will quickly get in touch ( the next day?) and the funeral will conveniently wait until the weekend.

I think somebody- probably Olivia and MissI will also talk on cell phones. MissI, don't you have a real sister on the Eye? Pam, do you mind being the Sensible One?

Our Movie Eye will have a Super Honor Roll, where once a week, Peterman awards a $100 gift certificate. Katz will have several, which may be how his MOTHER ends up in such great JP Clothes. ?
The movie starts in the fall, but the death and funeral come in early spring?

Just rambling again.

See you, bye
Willie